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	Closer (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Closer is a 2004 film directed by Mike Nichols and written by Patrick Marber, who wrote the play of the same name upon which the film is based.
		The film was released on December 3, 2004 in the United States.
		The film was nominated for numerous awards, including two Academy Awards and two Golden Globes, one of which was won by Natalie Portman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Closer_(film) (1650 words)

	Emanuel Levy : Review - Closer
		Closer is an intense anatomy of love and desire, fidelity and betrayal, the lies we tell ourselves and those around us, the ways we use and abuse others as sex objects in order to fulfill our needs and feed our frail, insecure egos, the need for intimacy that we all seek, secretly and unconsciously.
		Closer seems to be a precise and funny film, in which warmth and lovability are beside the point.
		The film is merciless toward both men and women in order to reach some kind of understanding of them, their capacities for self-delusion, and casual infliction of pain.
	www.emanuellevy.com /article.php?articleID=106 (1367 words)

	Movie Review: Closer
		Although the early moments of the film seem a bit slow, and there is some confusion when scenes change, everything is tied together nicely and the early moments make sense in later, more fully fleshed context.
		Closer is very much the story of how much love can hurt, not only in the ways we can be hurt by those we love or the manner in which we can hurt them, but most painfully of all in the way we can sometimes choose to rub salt into our own bleeding wounds.
		Closer is rated R for "sequences of graphic sexual dialogue, nudity/sexuality, [and] language." This is not a movie for children.
	www.ladylibrty.com /movie_review_archives/2004/closer.html (982 words)

	Closer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Closer (play), by Patrick Marber, upon which the film is based
		Closer (baseball), a relief pitcher who specializes in saving games
		Closer to God, a song and remix album by Nine Inch Nails
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Closer (114 words)

	The Reel Deal \| Movie Reviews by Mark Sells
		Yet, while the film features astonishing performances from its cast, there is a sense that none of them carries an ounce of goodness or will ever achieve salvation.
		And because the film skips through large chunks of time on a whim and retains a play-like structure, the closeness that is achieved or broken apart feels somewhat diluted.
		"Closer" is an extremely well written, well acted ensemble piece that delves into the dark side of modern relationships, relationships that are driven by the ill effects of love.
	www.oregonherald.com /reviews/mark-sells/reviews/closer.html (1134 words)

	FilmJerk.com - Film Review: Closer
		Seething with anger and raging with obsessive behavior, Mike Nichols’s “Closer” is a terrific battle-of-the-sexes follow-up to his landmark film, “Carnal Knowledge.” Supported by flawless performances from Natalie Portman and a watertight Clive Owen, “Closer” is an honest, dangerous, and riveting motion picture from start to finish.
		Owen is at the top of his game here, seething with rage as Larry slowly comprehends the sexual square dance that is happening in front of his eyes, with a standout scene being a mental Mexican standoff between him and Alice in a private dance room at her strip club.
		“Closer” is a dangerous, honest film that cuts deeply with its collage of romantic idealism, cancerous suspicion, and perfect performances.
	www.filmjerk.com /new/article1121.html (763 words)

	Closer (2004): Reviews
		Closer is an un-love story as honest and naked as Cupid in the devil's dock, the whole truth, and nothing but.
		Closer is marred by some drippy music courtesy of Damien Rice and a small-surprise ending that feels like gimmicky irony.
		Closer is in the same arena as Labute, and I found it sour and airless, with the feel of a mathematical proof.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/closer (1652 words)

	Our Tiny World: Film Reviews - Closer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		For “Closer,” the mold, however, is broken as the film screams out in detest instead of endearment and clearly becomes the definition of incivility.
		While the film wants you to believe it is about love, it is far from flattering.
		In fact, even with the limitless sexual dialogue and antics it reveals in its 100 minute running time, “Closer” is the least sexiest, most uninhibited film of the year – although that might be a title that it is comfortable with.
	www.ourtinyworld.com /filmreviews/2004/closer.htm (428 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > Closer - Superbit
		The film is about as unapologetic about deception and infidelity as films get these days, and for this very reason it provides the most truthful view of relationships I've seen on film in a long time.
		Instead, it seems as though Closer is a case of all the right people coming together for the right project and creating a film that easily stands as one of my favorite films of 2004.
		Films have been asking these questions and examining the intricacies of relationships for a very long time, but few have had the courage to make a truthful and honest look at how people interact with each other when love, sex, and deceit is involved.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=14853 (1357 words)

	Grace Cathedral: Enrichment: Film Review: Closer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The scorching emotional intensity of this movie will speak to those who remember the pull of sexual desire when first meeting a candidate for their love as well as those who still recall the sting of betrayal when love flees leaving behind nasty feelings of resentment and worse.
		This is not a film for the faint of heart or those or cannot abide the spikes of contemporary language.
		Closer is something completely different: a scorching examination of the shadow sides of love.
	www.gracecathedral.org /enrichment/film_review/frev_20041210.shtml (775 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review CLOSER movie by Mike Nichols with Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Nick ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		But the film is not the tour-de-force it might have been for reasons here explained.
		As "Closer" opens (to the strains of Damien Rice's "The Blower's Daughter"), Dan (Jude Law) and Alice (Natalie Portman) are bobbing in slow-mo towards each other on a crowded London street.
		Portman, as she was in "Garden State," is a delight, bringing an inner maturity to the flighty Alice.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2004/closer.php (708 words)

	Closer (2004) Film Review - MovieWeb
		Closer is directed by Mike Nichols who has become the imprimatur for many movies and plays -- a lot of them great.
		The problem, I guess, with highly paid film stars is that they don't seem to have the slightest clue about what real human beings do or say.
		Throughout this film as the hurtful confessions and preposterous situations continued to unfold I kept being sad.
	www.movieweb.com /movies/reviews/review.php?film=2644&review=4444 (570 words)

	BBC - Movies - interview - Patrick Marber
		Once he'd made the decision that it would be a mannerist film in the same mode as Carnal Knowledge - which he'd made more than 30 years ago - it was quite easy because the structure and shape were a given.
		I think the film has great humanity, tenderness and wit, yet is tough as old boots when it needs to be, and that's all Mike.
		Closer is released in UK cinemas on Friday 14th January 2005.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2004/12/23/patrick_marber_closer_interview.shtml (1447 words)

	Review: Closer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Over the next four years (the film occasionally jumps forward by months in order to span that much time), infidelities occur, betrayals are discovered, and all manner of ugliness ensues.
		The film is notable for its frank dialogue.
		Closer's two most riveting sequences involve Owen and Natalie Portman - one in an art gallery where they first meet, and the other in a strip club where he has all the money but she has the power, and uses it.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/c/closer.html (1088 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: Closer
		Closer is much more interesting from a structural standpoint than for anything in its repellent story.
		I feel especially embarrassed for Roberts, whose role in the film seems to be a neurotic potty-mouth who's willing to blurt out whatever pops into her head.
		Don't be misled by the film's timing and its white poster into thinking Closer is a holiday film for the masses.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/0/778c1653b726c55008256f5e00221e2a?OpenDocument (680 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| Closer attracts Oscar buzz
		The film's title is deliberately ambiguous as Closer is all about love, sex and betrayal.
		Set in contemporary London and directed by Mike Nichols, the film follows the entwined relationships of four people - their lies, jealousies and fantasies.
		Her performance in Closer has attracted some of the best reviews of the Oscar-winner's career and Roberts appears to be heading for another Academy Award nomination.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/4063133.stm (622 words)

	Closer film review
		Patrick Marber, who wrote both the screenplay and the original prizewinning stage play on which it was based, describes Closer as "a love story." Love, though, seems the very thing that's absent in this brilliantly written cynical condemnation of contemporary relationships.
		Frankness is a theme of Closer and never better illustrated than with Marber's incisive and vicious dialogue.
		Closer is easier to admire than it is to enjoy.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/reviews/closer.html (622 words)

	KDHX Film Review - Closer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Now he restricts his focus to two couples who play musical beds in a cruel combination of lust and ego, the machinations delivered through stunning performances by Jude Law and Clive Owen as the men and Natalie Portman and Julia Roberts as the women.
		This accurately reflects the cold cores of these contemporary characters but also results in a distancing of the viewing audience, not necessarily a bad consequence since reflection on this behavior is heartily recommended.
		Above all, Closer respects the audience, inviting the judgments the film resists explicitly leveling.
	www.kdhx.org /reviews/closer.html (341 words)

	Clive Owen: Closer
		Film Stew: "...Owen plays many delightful, unpredictable notes as Larry, making him as playful and charming as he is sinister and brutish; he offers the kind of effortless intricacy that great screen acting is all about."
		Film Historian David Thompson in the Independent on Closer and Julia Roberts - "...Clive Owen, in probably the hardest or most vulnerable part, is so good that I would immediately mount a season of Pinter plays with him in the leads."
		Closer was banking on its gorgeous cast, including Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, Jude Law and Clive Owen to carry it to some degree of success with a moderate opening on 476 screens.
	www.murphsplace.com /owen/film/closer/closer.html (3513 words)

	Closer (2004): Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Clive Owen, Julia Roberts - PopMatters Film Review
		She comes closer to you, her hair brightly dyed, her hips swaying, and frankly, she's a vision.
		It's a shrewd introduction for Mike Nichols' film, setting in motion the start-stop rhythms of the relationships under its lens, that is, two intersecting couples whose collisions, attractions, and discords will prove increasingly painful for all involved, including you.
		The scene that follows is the film's most moving, precisely because it is the moist underplayed.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/c/closer-2004.shtml (1325 words)

	Film Review: Closer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Imaginatively filmed in London, there's a lot of fun to be had spotting all the locations.
		Closer is taken up with these four - who is seeing who, who wants to have sex with who, and whether those being pursued will give in to temptation.
		If you're into films about sexual entanglements and the nature of present day affairs, make a date with this one.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /fm/c/closer_2004_r2.shtml (548 words)

	Movie Collector's Guide #5, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
		Closer examination though reveals a movie with sincere emotion, and as such, is an essential addition to any collection.
		There is also an abundance of video noise which some may pass as film grain but with the vertical filtering typical of all DVDs, there is hardly enough resolution to resolve true grain.
		The 5.1 soundtrack was made from an original 35mm six-track magnetic soundtrack master for the 70mm release of the film (1984).
	www.hometheaterhifi.com /volume_9_4/mcg6-10-2002.html (1416 words)

	U-WIRE.com/FILM REVIEW: 'Closer' a brilliant Oscar contender (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		That's the version of love that director Mike Nichols shows us in "Closer," a film so original, so powerful and so perfectly crafted that it has to be considered the frontrunner for almost every major award at this year's Academy Awards.
		The two fall quickly in love but over the course of the film's timeline, which spans four years, the addition of two other characters into their lives complicates and threatens to destroy their love.
		That is not to say that it is not one of the most stunningly true films ever made about love, which it is. "Closer" is painful, brilliant, honest and, most of all, a truly great film.
	www.uwire.com /content/topae120604003.html (591 words)

	Reviews: Closer - Christianity Today Movies
		After all, we're animals, and sex is "animal behavior." Closer contradicts this, suggesting that when people behave like animals, adhering only to their base desires and self-centered impulses instead of to conscience, morality, and promises, they end up lacking the blessings that human beings have the capability to enjoy.
		It is not a film to be flatly condemned or disregarded.
		Closer is an immensely unpleasant film to sit through, and, when it's all over, we are left not with a profound exploration of love and fidelity, but, rather, a simple moral that you could get in most any children's book: Selfishness is bad.
	www.christianitytoday.com /movies/reviews/closer.html (2612 words)

	Closer :: Film Review :: Nightlife
		Written by Patrick Marber, who also wrote the play of the same name, this is the story of two very pretty city dwelling couples and the brutal ways they find to betray each other.
		But despite this, the film has a scathing take on the politics of upmarket mens' clubs - particularly in a scene where Alice lap dances in front of Clive Owen while he stuffs hundred pound notes in her pants while venting his volcanic rage towards his ex-wife.
		"Closer" is obviously a cut above the average Hollywood fare.
	www.abc.net.au /nightlife/stories/s1280592.htm (502 words)

	Closer (2004/I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Trivia: The trailer includes several things that are not in the film.
		I saw the film twice in a row, I hadn't done that in years.
		Why this movie is one of the worse films ever (opinions)
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0376541 (529 words)

	ipedia.com: Pinhole camera Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Depending on the distance from the aperture to film plane, the infinite depth of field means everything is either in or out of focus to the same degree.
		Moving the film closer to the pinhole will result in a wide angle field of view and a shorter exposure time.
		The focal length is the distance from the film to the pinhole.
	www.ipedia.com /pinhole_camera.html (789 words)

	MovieFreak.com - "Closer" Movie Review
		The irony of Closer is that, as an audience, we are no closer to these four characters by the end of the melodrama as we were at the start.
		Nichols has cast his film beautifully, garnering a strong ensemble willing to push the audience and their own emotions to places both startling and unanticipated.
		Nichols knows the backrooms and hallways of this film like the back of his hand, moving it along with self-assuredness of which only a pro is capable.
	www.moviefreak.com /reviews/c/closer.htm (1261 words)

	Amazon.ca: Closer (2004): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Closer is yet another accomplished film to add to that list.
		You might be engaged for the 104 minutes of the film, feeling at times like you are 14 years old and your mother is waving the dirty magazine she found under your mattress in your face, but this engagement dissolves after the beautiful title song plays out at the end of the film.
		Closer has everything u want in a movie, u have the a-list cast, u have a theme song by Damien Rice to die for, and it just keeps you wanting more.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007OCG4W (1238 words)

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