An Education
Running time 100 minutes
Written by Nick Hornby
Directed by Lone Scherfig
Starring Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Cara Seymour, Rosamund Pike, Dominic Cooper, Emma Thompson
Riding in on waves of raves from film festivals around the world, the exquisitely made British coming-of-age film An Education features, as its centerpiece, a career-breakthrough Read More
Nick Hornby talks about a great High Fidelity after-party where they all learned it was going to bomb on Broadway.
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By way of introduction, Mr. Weitz sent an open letter to Twilight‘s Read More
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In 2004, Franklin Foer, then a writer for The New Republic and Slate, published a book called How Soccer Explains the World. It was a good book, essentially nine or 10 travel pieces that explored not so much how the game explains the world, but how it reflects the world. It had some holes, some Read More
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Still, there are some Read More
