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Published by Film at Lincoln Center

Farran Smith Nehme

Sleep, My Love (1948)

By Farran Smith Nehme
March 2, 2016
Insanity plea: Douglas Sirk's mind-games drama asks Claudette Colbert to play against type, but that's okay

A Room with a View (1985)

By Farran Smith Nehme
February 17, 2016
How soon is now: Merchant-Ivory's superb E.M. Forster adaptation celebrates the subtleties of the text and the pangs of love

Les Girls (1957)

By Farran Smith Nehme
February 3, 2016
King Cole: an under-appreciated Cukor-Kelly collaboration from the waning days of widescreen Technicolor musicals

Sunshine and Shadow

By Farran Smith Nehme
February 17, 2015
Henry King’s Margie finds a world of meaning in one teenage girl

Essential Films: Brooklyn

By Farran Smith Nehme
January 6, 2015
An Irish woman in the New World must choose her destiny in John Crowley’s big-hearted adaptation

Review: Foxcatcher

By Farran Smith Nehme
October 30, 2014
(Bennett Miller, U.S., 2014)