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Revisiting History: Booker’s Place

  • By Leonard Maltin
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  • May 1, 2012 1:00 AM
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So many documentaries come out every year that it isn’t possible to keep up with them all. I watched 'Booker’s Place' (now open theatrically in New York and Los Angeles, and available nationwide On Demand) because I admire its director, Raymond De Felitta, who most recently gave us the piquantly original comedy 'City Island'. And I’m awfully glad I did.
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film review—City Island

  • By Leonard Maltin
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  • March 19, 2010 4:00 AM
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City Island is a treat for movie lovers everywhere—even if you’ve never heard of the community where it takes place. (Don’t feel bad: many New Yorkers don’t even know about this quiet fishing village that’s linked to the Bronx by a narrow bridge.) One could broadly describe it as a comedy—at times, it even plays like farce—but its humor doesn’t come from gags or funny lines of dialogue. It derives, instead, from the real, recognizable emotions of a boisterous Italian-American family. That gives the film a solid emotional underpinning, and makes—

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