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Phuong Le

Review: The Disciple

By Phuong Le
June 7, 2021
Master and man: in Chaitanya Tamhane’s meditative drama, an aspiring musician finds himself at a crossroads between mediocrity and monastic commitment

Feeling Seen: Whose Apocalypse Now?

By Phuong Le
July 9, 2019
Adrift in history: much of Apocalypse Now portrays Vietnam as a spectacular but soulless backdrop for moral ruminations

Wonderful World of Welles: Harry Lime Lives!

By Phuong Le
June 26, 2015
A look at Orson Welles’s 1950s radio spin-off that showed the inepter side of The Third Man’s master criminal