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	"LOVE NOTES": Film Freak Central Interviews the Makers of Love Liza
		It was this interaction of sort of these struggling artists doing their best to make the best movie that they could in the four weeks we had to shoot, so that was sort of what it was like at the get go.
		I read my brother's script and loved it, I got Todd [Louiso] on board, we struggled creatively and, in the end, basically made the film that we wanted to make which is basically an impossible thing if you think about it.
		The beginning of Love Liza is all in silence because I wanted to establish sort of a way for the audience to watch the film.
	filmfreakcentral.net /notes/lovelizainterview.htm (3404 words)

	'Love Liza'
		I can't tell whether "Love Liza" wants to be a sad drama or a bleak comedy about a man dealing with the unexpected suicide of his wife.
		Liza left him a letter explaining her actions, but he can't bring himself to open it, much to the dismay of his mother-in-law, Mary Ann (Kathy Bates).
		Directed by Todd Louiso (he played Jack Black's record-store crony in "High Fidelity"), "Love Liza" was written by Gordy Hoffman, who happens to be the brother of the film's star.
	www.pittsburgpost-gazette.com /movies/20030328lizap8.asp (307 words)

	Love Liza Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Liza's mother, Mary Ann (Kathy Bates), wants to know what her daughter wrote, but Wilson isn't ready to open the letter.
		Wilson starts huffing the stronger fuel he buys for his plane, but his attraction to his new hobby is more than a cover-up for his substance-abuse problem; after all, remote-control is at least some kind of control, and it's the only form he's able to wield at the moment.
		In Love Liza, he's supported by an excellent cast of mostly unknown actors, with Kathy Bates the only other "name" on the roster.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=136572 (1707 words)

	Top Box Office Movies - Love Liza
		Love Liza doesn’t have the flowing comical scope or bouncy bewilderment that shines so effectively in About Schmidt.
		As wounded souls stuck on desperation’s doorstep in the wake of a mutual loved one’s inexplicable passing, they’re spellbinding and remarkably uninhibited.
		Love Liza, in theory, is an engaging and fearless session of unsavory realities to die for.
	www.theworldjournal.com /special/movies/2002/loveliza.htm (952 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "Love Liza"
		"Love Liza" is the fourth movie of the last two months to tackle the theme of People Who Love People Who Kill Themselves, after "Solaris," "The Hours" and "Morvern Callar." It's probably not fair to bash this little downbeat '70s-style film.
		"Love Liza" may frustrate as many viewers as it delights (if not more) and it is almost relentlessly depressing, but it's also a principled, sharply realistic film that captures a highly convincing vision of Middle America.
		His conversations with Liza's mother (Kathy Bates) are fragmentary exchanges that end with one or the other party walking away or hanging up; they care about each other but have utterly lost the capacity to communicate.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2003/01/08/love_liza (1181 words)

	Love Liza (2002): Reviews
		Of all the bleak year-end movies, Love Liza is the bleakest; of all the sad characters you've seen lately, Hoffman's Wilson Joel is the saddest.
		In "Love Liza" when love presents itself to Wilson (Phillip Seymour Hoffman), he rebukes his boss' offer; opting for the less-challenging company of Denny (Jack Kehler), and other competitive model boat enthusiasts instead.
		I have recently seen Love Liza after drawing it off the shelves at blockbuster since I cannot visit Kim's anymore in the city.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/loveliza (1388 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - Love Liza (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Love Liza is a psychological drama about a man trying to come to terms with his wife's suicide.
		I made a comment to my girlfriend while watching Love Liza that huffing gas is about the most destructive thing you can do to your body, for not that much reward.
		That is how I originally found out about Love Liza, I read that Jim O'Rourke was working on the soundtrack, which was delightful to hear, since I am already a huge fan.
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=26066 (707 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Love Liza at Epinions.com
		Love Liza tells a tale that has been told many times before (what tale hasn’t?).
		In her grief, she wants him to open it, but the pressure is subtle, for she needs him, he’s all she has left of her daughter.
		One of my first thoughts after seeing Love Liza is that screenwriter Gordy Hoffman has some very real experience with the type of situation he creates for his characters.
	www.epinions.com /content_101675208324 (1743 words)

	Love, Liza
		Grief over the loss of a loved one is something that the movies have explored with frequency lately, yielding mixed results that range from the unshielded, raw-nerve emotions of In the Bedroom to the calculated, polished Hollywood uplift of Moonlight Mile.
		Love, Liza, a self indulgent new treacle directed by Todd Louiso explores the days of a young widower lamenting the very recent suicide of his wife.
		Love, Liza is no sensitive examination of a young man putting his life back together after a tragedy.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /20036q/id1887.htm (1306 words)

	Love Liza Movie
		As Wilson huffs gasoline fumes to numb his emotional anguish, Love Liza unfolds as a patiently measured study of grief and loss (like the similarly themed Moonlight Mile), and Louiso shows great promise as a sensitive observer of authentic human behavior.
		Love Liza is a bizarre little film, very slow moving and incomprehensible, as though the viewer is supposed to be as unclear and dazed as its main character, Wilson Joel (always excellent Philip Seymour Hoffman).
		Although shot on a low budget, "Love Liza", is one of those Indies, that manages, with the help of an intellegent screenplay, and some innovative filming(and a little help from Philip Seymour Hoffman and Kathy Bates), to tell a story that will touch it's audience on many levels.
	www.movie-pages.com /movie/love-liza/B00008WI9N (1041 words)

	Love Liza
		"Love Liza" is meant to be a comedic look at grief, but the comedy is far too gentle to be recognizable most of the time.
		There is no examination of the Joels' marriage after Wilson declares 'I loved well!' The script's insistence in pulling back Bailey's character, a potential client at Joel's old job, doesn't ring true and only works to remake a point that has already been made.
		"Love Liza" has some interesting ideas, but none of the focus Liza had constructing her last note.
	www.reelingreviews.com /loveliza.htm (514 words)

	Rambles: Love Liza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Love Liza is, to say the least, an unusual film.
		Love Liza was directed by Todd Louiso, whose only other directorial effort was The Fifteen Minute Hamlet, in which he also played Ophelia.
		Love Liza isn't likely to make Top 100 lists or be heralded as "the next Star Wars." It's a small film that makes an odd statement in small ways.
	www.rambles.net /love_liza02.html (444 words)

	Love Liza review
		In Love Liza, a film infused with the intense darkness of an espresso shot, Philip Seymour Hoffman pulsates in the role of Wilson Joel, a Web designer who can't get over the death of his wife and read her suicide note.
		Based on a screenplay by Gordy Hoffman—brother of Philip Seymour, and directed by their buddy John Sherman, Love Liza is a low-key and straightforward film.
		Love Liza would look like a TV movie if it weren't for its irony and its performances.
	www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/loveliza.html (460 words)

	Love Liza (2002): Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kathy Bates, Jack Kehler - PopMatters Film Review
		Thus, with the exception of a couple of blurred photographs and one drug-induced, hallucinatory memory, we know only Liza as she is refracted through fragmented conversations between Wilson and her desolate mother, Mary Ann (Kathy Bates).
		The wreckage left in the aftermath of a suicide is certainly timely and fertile ground for imaginative exploration, but Love Liza, cloaked in incandescent blues and greens by cinematographer Lisa Rinzler and set to a sparse score by Jim O'Rourke, incessantly strikes the same melancholy chord.
		As Liza did herself in by clogging her car's exhaust pipe and then sitting in the running car while parked in the garage, Wilson's increasingly destructive gas inhalation rather obviously symbolizes his desire to join his wife.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/l/love-liza.shtml (838 words)

	Love Liza (2002)
		Ripley have marked him as one of the finest actors of his generation — sets the bar even higher in the darkly comic drama Love Liza.
		But he is also someone who cannot see past his own navel, unable to connect with another human being, a fact that is destroying his bereft mother-in-law (Kathy Bates).
		Love Liza is about someone doing everything he can in order to evade facing a tremendous loss, which makes Wilson not so different from a lot of people.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=136572&Tab=reviews&buy=open&CID=13 (558 words)

	Moviecrazed: LOVE LIZA
		Of all the bleak year-end movies, 'Love Liza' is the bleakest; of all the sad characters you've seen lately, Hoffman's Wilson Joel is the saddest...What saves 'Love Liza' from sinking under its own weight are a few appreciated spurts of comic relief, and Hoffman's courageously raw performance." --Jack Mathews, The New York Daily News
		"'Love Liza' is downbeat and dreary, one man's descent into inhalant-fueled oblivion...
		Hoffman appears in nearly every frame of 'Love Liza," a piercing study of spousal grief...and his omnipresence is something of a mixed blessing.
	www.moviecrazed.com /critics/love_liza.htm (221 words)

	Love Liza Reviews
		LOVE LIZA (director: Todd Louiso; screenwriter: Gordy Hoffman; cinematographer: Lisa Rinzler; editor: Ann Stein Katz; music: Jim O'Rourke; cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman (Wilson Joel), Kathy Bates (Mary Ann Bankhead), Sarah Koskoff (Maura), Stephen...
		Todd Louiso's LOVE LIZA is a depressing and fairly pointless movie about Wilson Joel (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a man who develops a severe drug addiction after his wife, Liza, commits suicide.
		On paper, Love Liza seems like it would be a sure thing come Oscar time.
	www.killermovies.com /l/loveliza/reviews (295 words)

	Ritz Filmbill: Movie Synopsis: Love Liza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Their relationship intensifies when Wilson refuses to open a letter Liza left behind for fear it will shatter his ideal of the perfect life they shared.
		Love Liza is a beautifully drawn portrait of a survivor who invokes humor, humility and whatever it takes to find the possibilities for a successful resolution.
		Perhaps a love, or failure or a break-up, but it’s probably from not being able to let go of something.…I wanted to come up with a devastating circumstance.
	www.ritzfilmbill.com /editorial/synopses/loveliza.shtml (428 words)

	Love Liza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Over the past decade, Philip Seymour Hoffman has appeared in a huge number of films in supporting roles, but Love Liza is his first time headlining a movie.
		Hoffman (Red Dragon, Punch-Drunk Love) is Wilson, a man coping with the recent suicide of his wife Liza.
		He is living in a daze, sleeping on the floor of his house because it's too painful to sleep in the bed they shared.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/love_liza.html (393 words)

	Love Liza
		In Love Liza, Hoffman is a little boyish with long blonde hair.
		Kathy Bates is Mary-Ann, Liza's mother, and her son-in-law resists her advances toward understanding what brought about something so sudden and horrible.
		Love Liza goes along its peculiar morbid zombie-like state until Wilson finds out he's not alone in his copious visiting of service stations.
	www.projections-movies.com /reviews/loveliza.html (338 words)

	Love Liza on DVD - MovieWeb
		Liza's mother (Kathy Bates) offers support to Wilson, but when she finds out that he won't open the note, their relationship turns sour.
		Wilson's life becomes even more tragic when he begins sniffing gasoline as a means to dull his pain, explaining his gas consumption as the result of his interest in model airplanes.
		Love Liza - Web site designer Wilson Joel (Philip Seymour Hoffman) tries to recover from the suicide of his wife (Ann Morgan), distracting himself by playing with remote-controlled planes and huffing gasoline, while at the same time avoiding his mother-in-law, who wants him to read his wife's suicide note.
	movieweb.com /dvd/dvd.php?043396103771 (525 words)

	EI > DVD > Love Liza (2002)
		"Love Liza" is one of the most beautiful, quiet, painfully funny films made in recent years.
		At its center are the almost supernaturally talented Philip Seymour Hoffman, and the equally talented Kathy Bates.
		However, once people get past it, the reward that "Love Liza" offers is far larger and more important.
	www.einsiders.com /reviews/dvd/loveliza.php (557 words)

	Edinburgh Festivals - Liza! With Love (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		What we get is a showcase of Liza’s biggest tunes, interspersed with a comic narrative of her life and loves.
		She no longer performs as a jubilantly in-love Liza, but instead becomes a friend who has to fill in for the heartbroken star at the last minute - other than this there is very little mention of the whole affair.
		Considering Fringe shows usually strive to be shocking, controversial, and current, Flint stubbornly refuses to really deal with any of the issues surrounding Liza at the moment, and while the audience may be impressed with her performance, they can’t fail to leave with a little disappointment.
	www.edinburgh-festivals.com /reviews.cfm?id=890982003&genre=Comedy (309 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Love Liza
		Philip Seymour HoffmanPhilip Seymour Hoffman is the whole show in "Love Liza," a curious little character study written by the star's playwright brother Gordy Hoffman, who won the screenwriting award at the Sundance Festival.
		Quietly lurking under every moment of Wilson's life is the question of why Liza took her life, and the hovering presence of a suicide letter that Wilson takes with him wherever he goes but can't bring himself to read.
		Then there is Liza's mother Mary Ann (Kathy BatesKathy Bates), who would dearly like some answers herself so that she can begin to understand what drove her daughter over the edge.
	www.variety.com /index.asp?layout=review&reviewid=VE1117916814&categoryid=31&cs=1 (924 words)

	Love, Liza : Defamer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Come over to my hotel room, I’ll be i full liza drag, will sing some songs for you, and you can fuck my wig off.
		Professional Liza performer, into big dicked men, uppers/downers, old MGM musicals, and suffication scenes.
		Liza Impersonator, in town and looking to be plowed while in costume - 34 [Craigslist]
	www.defamer.com /hollywood/culture/love-liza-031019.php (114 words)

	Love Liza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Cursed are the comfort-givers, for it is they who clothe their selfishness in the veil of concern and bring grief to the sorrowful.
		With a brilliant lead performance by Philip Seymour Hoffman as the shocked, raw-nerved husband, "Love Liza" is a piercing, acutely poetic film about a very difficult subject.
		Told from a perspective that goes against the grain of everyday notions of compassion and charity, "Liza" is one of the most accomplished dramatic competition films in recent years, in terms of the uniqueness of its narrative theme and for its aesthetic maturity.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1235086 (596 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'Love Liza'
		Unlovable 'Love Liza' stretches 45 minutes of plot into an hour and a half
		The shtick with gas is deliberate fanciness, when hard drinking would have served the purposes of this featherweight story just fine.
		Love Liza (R; 90 min.), directed by Todd Louiso, written by Gordy Hoffman, photographed by Lisa Rinzler and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Kathy Bates, opens Friday at selected theaters valleywide.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/01.30.03/loveliza-0305.html (585 words)

	Love on the rocks - Dateline NBC - MSNBC.com
		If Liza was born with her mother's voice, she may also have inherited some darker traits, as well.
		Liza's gift to the birthday boy was a command performance of her signature song from “cabaret.”
		But even as the "liza and david show" played to audiences worldwide, gest says their life behind the scenes was anything but a cabaret, that minnelli's comeback and their marriage were in serious trouble.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4185005 (4314 words)

	Endgames - The suicidal doubleheader of Morvern Callar and Love Liza. By Michael Agger
		Representing America is Todd Louiso's Love Liza (Sony Pictures Classics), in which Philip Seymour Hoffman finds a letter from his young wife (carbon monoxide poisoning) and refuses to open it.
		To feel this intuitive talent, compare the perfectly acceptable way that Liza opens—Philip Seymour Hoffman sleeping on the floor in an unlit house—with the gut punch that Morvern delivers: Samantha Morton's hand caressing her boyfriend's back, who's still alive, until we see his wrist.
		The script for Love Liza was written by his brother Gordy, and it shrewdly combines two subjects dear to the heart of independent cinema: suicide and addiction.
	www.slate.com /?id=2076242&msppchlg=1&mspplogin=http://login.passport.com/login.srf?id=1390&ru=http://slate.msn.com/?id=2076242&tw=144000&kv=4&ct=1042838907&ems=1&ver=2.0.0248.1&tpf=75788299218302d89c525b547145ae94 (1471 words)

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