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2003 Stories by Jean Oppenheimer

• Petering Out

  published December 25, 2003

  "All children, except one, grow up . . ." So begins J.M. Barrie's classic children's tale about the boy who defiantly refuses to grow up and the... More >>

• God Bless America

  published December 11, 2003

  Sorrow sprouts wings and flies in Jim Sheridan's radiant new film In America, which pits the pain and grief of unimaginable loss against... More >>

• Holmes Fried

  published October 16, 2003

  If you lie down with dogs, you've got to expect to get up with fleas. And when you go to a movie about a coked-out former porn star who was... More >>

• Tongue Tied

  published August 28, 2003

  Maverick Russian director Alexander Rogozhkin hit upon a clever idea for his idiosyncratic anti-war fable The Cuckoo (Kukushka in... More >>

• Bucking the Odds

  published July 24, 2003

  The novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald asserted that "There are no second acts in American lives." But a horse named Seabiscuit and the three disparate... More >>

• Ozon Layered

  published July 17, 2003

  French director François Ozon doesn't like to repeat himself. His last film, 8 Women, was a theatrical, rather campy piece of fluff... More >>

• Flying Bland

  published July 10, 2003

  More like Hollywood fluff than Gallic farce or sophistication, the French romantic comedy Jet Lag stars Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno as... More >>

• Crap Out

  published June 19, 2003

  The number of boring, uninspired studio pictures hitting today's multiplexes is getting depressing. To add insult to injury, many of these... More >>

• All Together Now

  published June 12, 2003

  The emotional, even healing, power of music is only one of the themes that interests acclaimed Chinese director Chen Kaige (Farewell My... More >>

• Right on Track

  published June 5, 2003

  The French government should officially proclaim actor Jean Rochefort a national treasure. A fixture of Gallic cinema for five decades, he is best... More >>

• Victor Victorious

  published May 1, 2003

  It is rare to find a film that defies one's expectations as sweetly and satisfyingly as this coming-of-age comedy-drama from first-time feature... More >>

• God Forsaken

  published March 6, 2003

  Rated R. More >>

• Back to the Future

  published January 2, 2003

  Four of the top 10 films I saw this past year don't actually open in the U.S. until 2003, but they played at various film festivals during the... More >>