Daniel Day-Lewis and Gordon Warnecke in My Beautiful Laundrette
Set in the cauldron of conflict between classes, races, sexes and sexualities in ’80s Thatcher-era London, Stephen Frears’ My Beautiful Laundrette is not only a terrific slice of life drama, it’s also a sort of time capsule from another time and place and a quintessential art film [...]

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Dargis, Scott and Holden chime in on the Oscar Race
Though the Oscars are kind of a West Coast affair, the New York Times isn’t about to let the season go by without having its say. This year, with a special Oscar section in Sunday’s paper, The Gray Lady appears to be favoring advocacy over simple prognostication [...]

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