Category: Directed by Tim Blake Nelson
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The actor playing Josh Hartnett’s mother (and Martin Sheen’s wife) doesn’t get a credit in O. She doesn’t have any lines, doesn’t really make any noise, just looks down at the dinner table during a scene. But she’s a perfect example of how Nelson paints subtlety and sadness into the film’s canvas. She’s mentioned once…
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I wonder if Tim Blake Nelson has read Disgrace. Cheap, cheap, cheap comment. One-liner even. It’s a one-liner. Leaves of Grass is not–if I underlined, I would here–an American Disgrace. It’s something different from that sort of attempt, but also something different from a mainstream or independent attempt… it’s a comedy drama unlike most others…
The Stop Button 