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Love and Death on Long Island
Lions Gate Films Inc.
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for brief strong language, thematic elements and some sexual content
Starring
John Hurt,
Jason Priestley,
Fiona Loewi,
Sheila Hancock,
Harvey Atkin,
Gawn Grainger,
Elizabeth Quinn,
and
Maury Chaykin
A stuffy British novelist becomes infatuated with a cinematic teen idol and sets out to meet him.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Richard Kwietniowski
Gilbert Adair (novel)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Richard Kwietniowski
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: July 22, 2003
Video: July 22, 2003
Theatrical: March 6, 1998
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| RUNNING TIME: |
94 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
UK / Canada |
Best First Film, 1998 New York Film Critics Circle Awards

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100
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
A highly original Death in Venice-scented comedy drama written and directed with flair by British feature novice Richard Kwietniowski.

100
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Hurt gives an astonishingly sensitive and funny performance as the bedazzled intellectual, and first-time filmmaker Kwietniowski unfolds the story with an unfailing blend of humor and compassion.

90
New York Magazine
David Denby
Writer-director Richard Kwietniowski has never made a feature before, but this debut effort is a triumph, a buoyant and elegant achievement -- romantic and ruminative yet always precise, a comedy of longing propelled by a strong current of satirical observation.

90
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
An unpredictable, often funny, always winning film, Love And Death On Long Island is filled with low-key humor and sharp observations about the state of art at the close of the millennium.

90
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
A witty, canny meditation on the power of pop culture in general and the rationalizations of cinephilia and film criticism in particular.

90
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Love and Death on Long Island is sharp, sophisticated and completely delicious, a purposeful comedy that focuses on the power of screen images to uproot lives and the poignancy of amour fou, totally mad love.

88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
These opening scenes of Love and Death on Long Island are funny and touching, and Hurt brings a dignity to Giles De'Ath that transcends any snickering amusement at his infatuation.

80
The New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
John Hurt is simply wonderful -- acerbic, funny and heartbreaking.

80
Newsweek
David Ansen
The first-time writer-director, Englishman Richard Kwietniowski, has adapted Gilbert Adair's novel with wit, economy and a delicate understanding that the funniest comedies are played with dead seriousness.

80
Variety
David Rooney
This is arguably Hurt's best role in years, and he bites into it with relish, managing to seem both manipulative and vulnerable, dour and droll at the same time.

78
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The height of drollery, a cheeky ode to the liberating power of popular culture, and a fascinating look at an old dog learning some new tricks.

75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
John Haslett Cuff
It is a slight, charming, filmic oddity, well acted and intelligently written

75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Despite the many laughs Love and Death offers, it never takes cheap shots. It has a vibrant, beating heart - and that makes the comedy all the more worthwhile.

75
San Francisco Examiner
Barbara Shulgasser
The script, by director Richard Kwietnioski and adapted from the Gilbert Adair novel, is poignant and well constructed.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
Directed with style and wit by London filmmaker Richard Kwietniowski, who makes his feature debut here, Love and Death is an off-kilter romantic comedy.

70
Slate
David Edelstein
First-time director Richard Kwietniowski has fun with the collision of high and low culture, and he does elegant work.

70
The New Yorker
Daphne Merkin
Directed with an original touch by Richard Kwietniowski, the movie is less about the nature of homoerotic longing than about the closeted nature of love itself.

70
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
With Love and Death on Long Island, writer-director Richard Kwietniowski makes a very pleasing feature debut.

60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The interactions between the raspy-voiced Hurt and various shallowly cheerful Americans are genuinely charming and dynamic.


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