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Ken Chen

The River
By Ken Chen | December 8, 2004

Can you think of any other neorealist movies that begin with a film crew declaring that they prefer non-actors over the gaudy special effects of a chalky doll? And that they prefer the non-actor precisely because he is more real?

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
By Ken Chen | February 14, 2004

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind could be one of those precious, necessarily rare things: like Breathless or 2001, a paradigmatic film for a generation.

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