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TIFF Review: Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler – /Film
Monday, September 8th, 2008
/Film - Some might say that The Wrestler is a departure from director Darren Aronofsky, while many others may look at it as an evolution. One thing is for sure, it’s very different, and certainly more mature than the filmmaker’s previous work. I’d love to compare it to Paul Thomas Anderson’s transition from films like Boogie Nights and Magnolia to There Will Be Blood. The Wrestler, like TWBB, strips it down to the bones. The fantastical stylized cinematography has been replaced with gritty handheld and performances so realistic that you’ll feel like you’re watching a documentary. Understated and simple seem to be the buzz words being used to describe the film affectionately. The Wrestler is a heartbreaking, beautiful film.
A fan asks Randy “The Ram” Robinson (Mickey Rourke) to sign an autograph while reminiscing about seeing his first wrestling match at the Spectrum. “You were awesome,” the fan tells Randy. WERE being the key word. The Ram is now playing to small crowds in high school auditoriums and armories. We’re not talking about someone on the level of Hulk Hogan, who was able to make and save cash along the way. Imagine someone like Jake the Snake Roberts, who is now traveling to independent wrestling events on the weekends to pay the rent. Robinson finds himself living in a van after being locked out of his junk-filled trailer by his landlord.
At the conclusion of a hardcore wrestling match, Robinson suffers a heart attack backstage, collapsing in his own vomit. The doctor tells the wrestling legend that he can no longer wrestle, and has to start taking better care of himself. Lonely and depressed, Randy befriends a 30-something-year-old tattooed stripper named Cassidy (Marisa Tomei) and begins working weekend shifts at the deli-counter at the the local supermarket. Randy also tried to reconnect with his estranged 22-year-old daughter Stephanie (Evan Rachel Wood). But all Randy knows is the ring… [Full Story]
Movie Review: Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno – /Film
Monday, September 8th, 2008
/Film - I have a theory that Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno is actually just a chronology of Smith’s career so far as a filmmaker. The film starts off much like Clerks, with Seth Rogen trying to wake up for his dreadful job. Minutes later he is walking through the local mall with his roommate and best friend Miri, played by Elizabeth Banks, in a scene that is reminiscent of Mallrats. The high school reunion sequence that follows feels oh so Chasing Amy. And when Zack and Miri must band together with a group of misfits to make a porno, I’m reminded of both Dogma and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. And the last 30 minutes of Zack and Miri is more like a conventional romantic comedy, like Jersey Girl.
I got a chance to screen this film a few months ago, before the MPAA appeal hearing had taken place. When I told Smith my theory on the film, he replied “Congrats, sir – you’re the first person to say, what to me, is so blatantly obvious. It’s not a movie about porn, really: it’s a movie about how we made Clerks.” And I think that says everything you really need to know about Zack and Miri.
One of the reoccurring stories found in the teen films from the 80’s and 90’s is that of the dork or geek who is hopelessly in love with his best friend. She is a cute looking girl, probably out of his league, who has an asshole jock boyfriend and is completely ignorant to the fact that her sole-mate might actually be her best friend. Usually those 80’s teen films end with the realization. You know, the one that usually never happens in real life… [Full Story]
$9.99 – ScreenDaily Review
Monday, September 8th, 2008
ScreenDaily - Dealing with such lightweight issues as “the meaning of life” and “happiness” may seem a bit excessive for a stop-motion animated film weighing in at less than 78 minutes. But the film doesn’t take itself that seriously after all, defusing some of the pretentiousness by suggesting it offers nothing more than $9.99 worth of wisdom on these ambitious themes. And in any case, the main attraction here is the oblique irony of writer Etgar Keret and his off-the-wall humour, rather than the chance of finding a comprehensive solution to the problems of the world.
Adapted by Etgar Keret and director Tatia Rosenthal from a series of short stories originally written by Keret, this first-time Israeli-Australian co-production, coming as it does on the tracks of the enormous success of another Israeli animation, Waltz with Bashir, is most probably going to ride its wave, though it comes from a completely different place, both in themes and the type of technique used. Closer in spirit to Cannes’ 2007 Golden Camera winner Jellyfish, also based on Keret’s short stories, Rosenthal has chosen to replace actors with puppets. Keret’s sarcastically downbeat perception of the world is reflected in the look of their gloomy faces, the sad expression of the eyes and the colour palette chosen for the sets around them and costumes they wear. A specialized item that might attract Keret admirers, but generates neither the emotion nor the overall energy that the best animation is usually capable of, it will remain a curio niche item, though with a longer shelf life than usual… [Full Story]
Every Little Step – ScreenDaily Review
Monday, September 8th, 2008
ScreenDaily - Every Little Step is “the making of…the remaking of…” The backstage documentary witnesses the emotional casting of the 2006 Broadway revival of the now-classic backstage musical, A Chorus Line, which played from 1975 to 1990.
Consumers are accustomed to getting “making of” documentaries at no charge on dvd’s, and theatrical release of any documentary is a risk, yet more than 6 million people saw A Chorus Line in its original run, and the crowd-pleasing documentary can build on that audience. Poignant testimony about being gay, heard in archival audio from the original musical’s choreographer/director, Michael Bennett (1937-1985), connects the film to another sizable audience. Foreign interest should not be underestimated. Tourists came from all over the world to see A Chorus Line, yet television seems the most likely medium for this tribute. Theatre fans should make for a strong market for home video.
Filmmakers James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo were commissioned by John Breglio, the lawyer for Bennett’s estate and the revival’s producer, to observe the 2006 audition process. This happens largely through the eyes of Michael Avian, the show’s original co-choreographer. With Avian directing and the original cast member Baayork Lee choreographing, hundreds of dancers are herded through a whirlwind of numbers. They belt out songs and whisper ambitious thoughts. For all their bravado and tears, most get rejection: a polite “thank you.”… [Full Story]
The Other Man – Variety.com
Monday, September 8th, 2008
Variety.com - The promising intrigue of a husband’s bullheaded obsession with his wife’s lover falls flat in “The Other Man,” directed with an indifferent hand by Richard Eyre. With his screenwriting partner Charles Wood (adapting Bernhard Schlink’s original story), Eyre prods what begins as a drama toward a droller tone in the final act, complete with a twisty and manipulative revelation, but the course is as rocky as it is ultimately empty. Centerpiece is a mano a mano between Liam Neeson and Antonio Banderas, which will be the draw for auds after certain sales across most territories following pic’s Toronto preem.
If there were some intended mystery over whom that other man actually is, it’s revealed shortly after the opening credits, which linger over a boating excursion on Lake Como enjoyed by Lisa (Laura Linney) and Ralph (Banderas).
Lisa is then seen with her husband Peter (Neeson) at a New York fashion show featuring Lisa’s haute-couture shoe designs. A brief post-show encounter with Peter’s daughter Abigail (Romola Garai) suggests a frosty relationship between her and her father, while Peter looks suspiciously at designer Ralph (Banderas), who seems a bit too smoochy with Lisa… [Full Story]
Live from TIFF: Tim Blake Nelson and Ed Norton Talk ‘Leaves of Grass’ – Cinematical
Monday, September 8th, 2008
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Cinematical - Tim Blake Nelson and Edward Norton were on-hand in Toronto on Sunday to discuss their upcoming film, Leaves of Grass. Nelson wrote the script and will act in and direct the film, while Norton will play the dual lead roles of identical twin brothers.
Here’s what we were told of the storyline: Bill Kincaid is a buttoned-up Ivy League philosophy professor; his pot-growing twin brother lures him back to his hometown in rural Oklahoma for an ill-conceived deal to bilk a local drug-lord (Richard Dreyfuss), described by Nelson as being like “a Jewish T. Boone Pickens in the Tulsa Jewish community”. Bill gets entangled in his brother’s schemes and implicated in a murder, and his ordered philosophical life starts to fall apart. Also starring in the film are Susan Sarandon as Bill’s estranged mother and Keri Russell as a love interest for one of the brothers. Nelson will play the friend of one of the brothers.
Nelson wrote the role of the twin brothers specifically for Norton, although he said Norton didn’t know it until after it was written. Norton said he’s not involved in the screenplay at all on this film; Nelson gave the script to Norton early last year, and Norton, swamped with projects at the time, reluctantly read his friend’s script. As soon as he read it, he said, “I knew I was going to be spending time on this one.”
The film, financed by Nu Image/Millenium, starts shooting September 22 on a budget of about $14 million in Shreveport, Louisiana. I asked Nelson, who, like me, is an Oklahoma native, why he’s not filming near Tulsa instead, since the film is set in Oklahoma; Louisiana apparently still has better tax incentives than Oklahoma, and looks close enough geographically to pass, so that’s where they’re shooting… [Full Story]
Ghost Town – Variety.com
Monday, September 8th, 2008
ScreenDaily - Smartly supernatural, and featuring sensational performances by Ricky Gervais and Tea Leoni, “Ghost Town” is a “Topper” for our times, and will probably do for Gervais what his previous projects haven’t — namely, brand the Emmy-winning Brit comic in America as a source of sophisticated, snarky fun. The proper tweaking by Paramount could make for major B.O.
The philandering Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear) is walking along a Manhattan street when he steps in front of a bus to avoid being hit by a falling air conditioner. “Is he dead?” someone asks. “He isn’t happy,” someone answers. For us, Frank rematerializes as one of the myriad ghosts walking around Manhattan with unfinished business — in Frank’s case, the happiness of his widow, Gwen (Leoni).
Flash forward to Bertram Pincus (Gervais), a dentist who’s all scrubbed cheeks and misanthropy, having what should be a routine colonoscopy — the lead-up to which is hysterical — but instead leaves Bertram with a question: Who were all those people in his room? When he starts seeing dead people, and they realize he can see them, they start following him around, becoming an annoyance the fussy Bertram can barely tolerate… [Full Story]
TIFF Review: EDEN LOG – Twitch
Monday, September 8th, 2008
Twitch - Talk about an odd choice for the Midnight Madness program. Sure, Eden Log’s got genre cred to spare – it’s a scifi flick with a heavy creature element, the first directorial effort from a man with AD credits on a ludicrous list of the best French genre films of the past few years – but programmer Colin Geddes generally tries to keep the Midnight lineup on the high-energy end of the spectrum. After all, it’s a lot easier to stay up to 2 am if you’ve got a movie that kicks your ass a bit from time to time to give an extra bit of adrenaline. And whatever else Eden Log may be, high energy it aint.
A dark, philosophical spin on the Garden of Eden, Eden Log opens with a man gaining consciousness at the bottom of a mysterious cave. He’s coated with mud and has no idea who he is, where his is or how he got there. We follow as he explores his surroundings, eventually finding his way to an abandoned underground settlement – it could be a research station, it could be some sort of socially engineered utopia, we’re never quite sure.
This is Eden Log and whoever lived there originally, they’re gone now. The lights have gone out, the machinery has gone quiet, the only signs of life the far off snarls of hostile creatures and the carnivorous tree roots that seem to have infiltrated the whole place.There is nothing for our hero to do but try to find his way to the surface… [Full Story]
The Other Man – ScreenDaily Review
Monday, September 8th, 2008
ScreenDaily - Richard Eyre is fast becoming the new master of unhealthy obsession. After Judi Dench’s creepily predatory school teacher in Notes On A Scandal, it is now the turn of Liam Neeson to play a fool for love in The Other Man.
Well-heeled literary adaptation mixes sleek psychodrama with Hitchcock-style suspense, but the somewhat misleading nature of the story tends to diminish its impact. The film may be based on a story by the esteemed Bernhard (The Reader) Schlink, but it feels more like a slightly classier version of an airport bestseller that passes the time and doesn’t completely satisfy. Intriguing elements and the cast should ensure middling commercial returns, although
it might find a warmer welcome on dvd release.
Neeson is successful web designer Peter, a man with a happy marriage to shoe designer Lisa (Laura Linney) and a lovely daughter in Abigail (Romola Garai). It is the evening of Lisa’s launch when the cracks in their perfect relationship appear. At dinner, Lisa asks if people can really stay together their whole lives and whether Peter ever wished he had been given the chance to sleep with someone else. The next morning she is gone. A voice-message from Ralph (Antonio Banderas) alerts Peter to the fact that there has been another man in Lisa’s life. He tracks him to Milan where the two men play both literal and metaphorical games of chess with each other and Peter pursues an almost masochistic desire for juicy details about the affair between Lisa and Ralph… [Full Story]
TIFF Review: Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler – /Film
Monday, September 8th, 2008/Film - Some might say that The Wrestler is a departure from director Darren Aronofsky, while many others may look at it as an evolution. One thing is for sure, it’s very different, and certainly more mature than the filmmaker’s previous work. I’d love to compare it to Paul Thomas Anderson’s transition from films like Boogie Nights and Magnolia to There Will Be Blood. The Wrestler, like TWBB, strips it down to the bones. The fantastical stylized cinematography has been replaced with gritty handheld and performances so realistic that you’ll feel like you’re watching a documentary. Understated and simple seem to be the buzz words being used to describe the film affectionately. The Wrestler is a heartbreaking, beautiful film.
A fan asks Randy “The Ram” Robinson (Mickey Rourke) to sign an autograph while reminiscing about seeing his first wrestling match at the Spectrum. “You were awesome,” the fan tells Randy. WERE being the key word. The Ram is now playing to small crowds in high school auditoriums and armories. We’re not talking about someone on the level of Hulk Hogan, who was able to make and save cash along the way. Imagine someone like Jake the Snake Roberts, who is now traveling to independent wrestling events on the weekends to pay the rent. Robinson finds himself living in a van after being locked out of his junk-filled trailer by his landlord.
At the conclusion of a hardcore wrestling match, Robinson suffers a heart attack backstage, collapsing in his own vomit. The doctor tells the wrestling legend that he can no longer wrestle, and has to start taking better care of himself. Lonely and depressed, Randy befriends a 30-something-year-old tattooed stripper named Cassidy (Marisa Tomei) and begins working weekend shifts at the deli-counter at the the local supermarket. Randy also tried to reconnect with his estranged 22-year-old daughter Stephanie (Evan Rachel Wood). But all Randy knows is the ring… [Full Story]
Movie Review: Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno – /Film
Monday, September 8th, 2008/Film - I have a theory that Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno is actually just a chronology of Smith’s career so far as a filmmaker. The film starts off much like Clerks, with Seth Rogen trying to wake up for his dreadful job. Minutes later he is walking through the local mall with his roommate and best friend Miri, played by Elizabeth Banks, in a scene that is reminiscent of Mallrats. The high school reunion sequence that follows feels oh so Chasing Amy. And when Zack and Miri must band together with a group of misfits to make a porno, I’m reminded of both Dogma and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. And the last 30 minutes of Zack and Miri is more like a conventional romantic comedy, like Jersey Girl.
I got a chance to screen this film a few months ago, before the MPAA appeal hearing had taken place. When I told Smith my theory on the film, he replied “Congrats, sir – you’re the first person to say, what to me, is so blatantly obvious. It’s not a movie about porn, really: it’s a movie about how we made Clerks.” And I think that says everything you really need to know about Zack and Miri.
One of the reoccurring stories found in the teen films from the 80’s and 90’s is that of the dork or geek who is hopelessly in love with his best friend. She is a cute looking girl, probably out of his league, who has an asshole jock boyfriend and is completely ignorant to the fact that her sole-mate might actually be her best friend. Usually those 80’s teen films end with the realization. You know, the one that usually never happens in real life… [Full Story]
$9.99 – ScreenDaily Review
Monday, September 8th, 2008ScreenDaily - Dealing with such lightweight issues as “the meaning of life” and “happiness” may seem a bit excessive for a stop-motion animated film weighing in at less than 78 minutes. But the film doesn’t take itself that seriously after all, defusing some of the pretentiousness by suggesting it offers nothing more than $9.99 worth of wisdom on these ambitious themes. And in any case, the main attraction here is the oblique irony of writer Etgar Keret and his off-the-wall humour, rather than the chance of finding a comprehensive solution to the problems of the world.
Adapted by Etgar Keret and director Tatia Rosenthal from a series of short stories originally written by Keret, this first-time Israeli-Australian co-production, coming as it does on the tracks of the enormous success of another Israeli animation, Waltz with Bashir, is most probably going to ride its wave, though it comes from a completely different place, both in themes and the type of technique used. Closer in spirit to Cannes’ 2007 Golden Camera winner Jellyfish, also based on Keret’s short stories, Rosenthal has chosen to replace actors with puppets. Keret’s sarcastically downbeat perception of the world is reflected in the look of their gloomy faces, the sad expression of the eyes and the colour palette chosen for the sets around them and costumes they wear. A specialized item that might attract Keret admirers, but generates neither the emotion nor the overall energy that the best animation is usually capable of, it will remain a curio niche item, though with a longer shelf life than usual… [Full Story]
Every Little Step – ScreenDaily Review
Monday, September 8th, 2008ScreenDaily - Every Little Step is “the making of…the remaking of…” The backstage documentary witnesses the emotional casting of the 2006 Broadway revival of the now-classic backstage musical, A Chorus Line, which played from 1975 to 1990.
Consumers are accustomed to getting “making of” documentaries at no charge on dvd’s, and theatrical release of any documentary is a risk, yet more than 6 million people saw A Chorus Line in its original run, and the crowd-pleasing documentary can build on that audience. Poignant testimony about being gay, heard in archival audio from the original musical’s choreographer/director, Michael Bennett (1937-1985), connects the film to another sizable audience. Foreign interest should not be underestimated. Tourists came from all over the world to see A Chorus Line, yet television seems the most likely medium for this tribute. Theatre fans should make for a strong market for home video.
Filmmakers James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo were commissioned by John Breglio, the lawyer for Bennett’s estate and the revival’s producer, to observe the 2006 audition process. This happens largely through the eyes of Michael Avian, the show’s original co-choreographer. With Avian directing and the original cast member Baayork Lee choreographing, hundreds of dancers are herded through a whirlwind of numbers. They belt out songs and whisper ambitious thoughts. For all their bravado and tears, most get rejection: a polite “thank you.”… [Full Story]
The Other Man – Variety.com
Monday, September 8th, 2008Variety.com - The promising intrigue of a husband’s bullheaded obsession with his wife’s lover falls flat in “The Other Man,” directed with an indifferent hand by Richard Eyre. With his screenwriting partner Charles Wood (adapting Bernhard Schlink’s original story), Eyre prods what begins as a drama toward a droller tone in the final act, complete with a twisty and manipulative revelation, but the course is as rocky as it is ultimately empty. Centerpiece is a mano a mano between Liam Neeson and Antonio Banderas, which will be the draw for auds after certain sales across most territories following pic’s Toronto preem.
If there were some intended mystery over whom that other man actually is, it’s revealed shortly after the opening credits, which linger over a boating excursion on Lake Como enjoyed by Lisa (Laura Linney) and Ralph (Banderas).
Lisa is then seen with her husband Peter (Neeson) at a New York fashion show featuring Lisa’s haute-couture shoe designs. A brief post-show encounter with Peter’s daughter Abigail (Romola Garai) suggests a frosty relationship between her and her father, while Peter looks suspiciously at designer Ralph (Banderas), who seems a bit too smoochy with Lisa… [Full Story]
Live from TIFF: Tim Blake Nelson and Ed Norton Talk ‘Leaves of Grass’ – Cinematical
Monday, September 8th, 2008Cinematical - Tim Blake Nelson and Edward Norton were on-hand in Toronto on Sunday to discuss their upcoming film, Leaves of Grass. Nelson wrote the script and will act in and direct the film, while Norton will play the dual lead roles of identical twin brothers.
Here’s what we were told of the storyline: Bill Kincaid is a buttoned-up Ivy League philosophy professor; his pot-growing twin brother lures him back to his hometown in rural Oklahoma for an ill-conceived deal to bilk a local drug-lord (Richard Dreyfuss), described by Nelson as being like “a Jewish T. Boone Pickens in the Tulsa Jewish community”. Bill gets entangled in his brother’s schemes and implicated in a murder, and his ordered philosophical life starts to fall apart. Also starring in the film are Susan Sarandon as Bill’s estranged mother and Keri Russell as a love interest for one of the brothers. Nelson will play the friend of one of the brothers.
Nelson wrote the role of the twin brothers specifically for Norton, although he said Norton didn’t know it until after it was written. Norton said he’s not involved in the screenplay at all on this film; Nelson gave the script to Norton early last year, and Norton, swamped with projects at the time, reluctantly read his friend’s script. As soon as he read it, he said, “I knew I was going to be spending time on this one.”
The film, financed by Nu Image/Millenium, starts shooting September 22 on a budget of about $14 million in Shreveport, Louisiana. I asked Nelson, who, like me, is an Oklahoma native, why he’s not filming near Tulsa instead, since the film is set in Oklahoma; Louisiana apparently still has better tax incentives than Oklahoma, and looks close enough geographically to pass, so that’s where they’re shooting… [Full Story]
Ghost Town – Variety.com
Monday, September 8th, 2008ScreenDaily - Smartly supernatural, and featuring sensational performances by Ricky Gervais and Tea Leoni, “Ghost Town” is a “Topper” for our times, and will probably do for Gervais what his previous projects haven’t — namely, brand the Emmy-winning Brit comic in America as a source of sophisticated, snarky fun. The proper tweaking by Paramount could make for major B.O.
The philandering Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear) is walking along a Manhattan street when he steps in front of a bus to avoid being hit by a falling air conditioner. “Is he dead?” someone asks. “He isn’t happy,” someone answers. For us, Frank rematerializes as one of the myriad ghosts walking around Manhattan with unfinished business — in Frank’s case, the happiness of his widow, Gwen (Leoni).
Flash forward to Bertram Pincus (Gervais), a dentist who’s all scrubbed cheeks and misanthropy, having what should be a routine colonoscopy — the lead-up to which is hysterical — but instead leaves Bertram with a question: Who were all those people in his room? When he starts seeing dead people, and they realize he can see them, they start following him around, becoming an annoyance the fussy Bertram can barely tolerate… [Full Story]
TIFF Review: EDEN LOG – Twitch
Monday, September 8th, 2008Twitch - Talk about an odd choice for the Midnight Madness program. Sure, Eden Log’s got genre cred to spare – it’s a scifi flick with a heavy creature element, the first directorial effort from a man with AD credits on a ludicrous list of the best French genre films of the past few years – but programmer Colin Geddes generally tries to keep the Midnight lineup on the high-energy end of the spectrum. After all, it’s a lot easier to stay up to 2 am if you’ve got a movie that kicks your ass a bit from time to time to give an extra bit of adrenaline. And whatever else Eden Log may be, high energy it aint.
A dark, philosophical spin on the Garden of Eden, Eden Log opens with a man gaining consciousness at the bottom of a mysterious cave. He’s coated with mud and has no idea who he is, where his is or how he got there. We follow as he explores his surroundings, eventually finding his way to an abandoned underground settlement – it could be a research station, it could be some sort of socially engineered utopia, we’re never quite sure.
This is Eden Log and whoever lived there originally, they’re gone now. The lights have gone out, the machinery has gone quiet, the only signs of life the far off snarls of hostile creatures and the carnivorous tree roots that seem to have infiltrated the whole place.There is nothing for our hero to do but try to find his way to the surface… [Full Story]
The Other Man – ScreenDaily Review
Monday, September 8th, 2008ScreenDaily - Richard Eyre is fast becoming the new master of unhealthy obsession. After Judi Dench’s creepily predatory school teacher in Notes On A Scandal, it is now the turn of Liam Neeson to play a fool for love in The Other Man.
Well-heeled literary adaptation mixes sleek psychodrama with Hitchcock-style suspense, but the somewhat misleading nature of the story tends to diminish its impact. The film may be based on a story by the esteemed Bernhard (The Reader) Schlink, but it feels more like a slightly classier version of an airport bestseller that passes the time and doesn’t completely satisfy. Intriguing elements and the cast should ensure middling commercial returns, although
it might find a warmer welcome on dvd release.
Neeson is successful web designer Peter, a man with a happy marriage to shoe designer Lisa (Laura Linney) and a lovely daughter in Abigail (Romola Garai). It is the evening of Lisa’s launch when the cracks in their perfect relationship appear. At dinner, Lisa asks if people can really stay together their whole lives and whether Peter ever wished he had been given the chance to sleep with someone else. The next morning she is gone. A voice-message from Ralph (Antonio Banderas) alerts Peter to the fact that there has been another man in Lisa’s life. He tracks him to Milan where the two men play both literal and metaphorical games of chess with each other and Peter pursues an almost masochistic desire for juicy details about the affair between Lisa and Ralph… [Full Story]
