Cara Seymour

'The Music Never Stopped' review: More J.K. Simmons is always a good thing

2011-03-30 22:00:00

**1/2 (out of four) Nearly 20 years after losing touch, Henry (J.K. Simmons) and Helen Sawyer (Cara Seymour) reunite with their son Gabriel (Lou Taylor Pucci) after he’s diagnosed with a brain tumor that prevents him from forming new memories....

'Steal Me'

2005-09-23 00:00:00

Melissa Painter's "Steal Me" is that rarity, a low-budget independent picture made in a rural setting that captures an authentic feel and rhythm of the locale without self-consciousness, awkwardness or sentimentality — and with considerable subtlety...

Dancer in the Dark

2000-10-05 00:00:00

Friday October 6, 2000 ��Lars von Trier's "Dancer in the Dark," that most morose of musicals, is so exasperating in its contradictions, so frustrating in its fakery, so deeply irritating in its pretensions, it's frankly hard to know where to begin...

Movie review, 'Adaptation'

2002-12-17 00:00:00

Few recent films have stripped open the angst-ridden mind and heart of a writer with more wit and firecracker imagination than "Adaptation," the latest cinema jape from the unbuttoned "Being John Malkovich" team of director Spike Jonze and writer...

Movie review: 'Evergreen'

2004-09-08 00:00:00

2 stars (out of 4) When we first meet Kate and her daughter Henri in "Evergreen," they are on the move again--leaving behind one broken life for the promise of something better. Penny- and root-less, they move in with Kate's mother and share a creaky...

'Evergreen'

2004-09-10 00:00:00

Enid Zentelis' affecting and intimate "Evergreen" deals with family life and coming of age and is the kind of small, deeply personal American film that rarely surfaces even in art theaters these days. The usual route for an independently made first film...

"The Music Never Stopped" writer Gwyn Lurie; actors J.K. Simmons, Lou Taylor Pucci, Julia Ormond and Cara Seymour; director Jim Kohlberg and writer Gary Marks get close.

2011-01-22 00:00:00