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Married Life
Stylish without being overly stylized, intelligent without being boring, Married Life is a classy throwback to the good old days when subtlety meant something at the movies and watching Hitchcock was a good reason to stay home.
- Rex Reed, New York Observer
I was seduced by Married Life, a little beauty set in well-mannered 1949, which has fun with bad behavior among attractive cheaters.
- Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
The funny, the scary, the campy, the sad--they’re all splendidly of a piece.
- David Edelstein, New York Magazine
Cooper and Clarkson are sublime in creating a marriage still filled with tenderness, even as they lie to each other with breezy consistency.
- Richard Roeper, Ebert and Roeper
This is the film Woody Allen would kill to make – an effortless, cohesive, and cutting look on commitment, love, and marital maneuvers.
- Kent Turner, film-forward.com
Arch, wry and dry, with its exquisite wallpaper and impeccably blocked fedoras, Married Life is bracingly malicious noir for a while, a sort of gray-flannel-suit take on the Coen brothers' Blood Simple. Every character seems morally capable of anything.
- Kyle Smith, New York Post
This subtle dance around morality is as seductive as the elegantly designed rooms it takes place in, where even the shadows are cozy.
- Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News
Atmospheric and haunting…Forty Shades of Blue is a movie that seeps under your skin. It demands patience and it rewards it amply.
- David Ansen, Newsweek
Wordlessly eloquent about the patterns of estrangement and entrapment that infect family ties...with a rapt, heightened naturalism that owes a sizeable debt to Cassavetes...
-Dennis Lim, Village Voice
Sachs' studiously observed characters linger...long after the haunting freeze frame that closes the film…its atmosphere of quiet desperation is palpable.
- Colin Brown, Screen Daily
Every line, every gesture rings true.
-Tom Charity, Terminal City
Dazzling…one of the Year's Best
- Gary Morris, Bay Area Reporter
Sachs has created in The Delta an achingly poignant portrait of alienation and longing so evocative that it is poetic in its impact.
- Kevin Thomas, LA Times
Compelling…confounds expectations with its freshness, urgency, and poignancy
- The Times of London
Has the power of early Pasolini or Fassbinder
- The Independent
Astonishing…Sachs uses the Mississippi to transform his boy-meets-boy hustler tale into a veritable rewrite of the Huck Finn myth.
- Sight and Sound
Sachs reinterprets classic American melodrama, creating volatile emotional environments that leave their characters no place to run and even fewer places to return to…
- Peter Bowen, Filmmaker Magazine
The Delta seemed to me the most memorable film in competition at Sundance this year… The American independent cinema is filled with opportunistic angst and whining, but Sachs's despair, because it's more detached and analytical, is more unsettling. I suspect what unnerves people so much is that his fatalism is so matter of fact -- so like reportage. It's easier to swallow such an uncompromising vision when it comes packaged in an expressionist style. Another filmmaker would give the politics embedded in The Delta a rhetorical helping hand. Sachs's taut but understated style lets the action 
speak for itself. The Delta's naturalistic surface, its keen, chilly eye for behavioral detail, its refusal to manipulate our responses to its characters, puts the viewer in an uncomfortable, and liberating, position. From moment to moment, we are forced to find our own moral bearings, to reevaluate our sympathies without the usual signposts of heroism and villainy. On the evidence of his one feature…this open-eyed pessimist strikes me as a genuine disturber of our peace, and I'm mighty curious to see where he takes us next. Someplace, I suspect, we've never been.
- David Ansen, Film Comment www.findarticles.com
A new work of art, comparable to under-recognized American classics like Seventeen and Killer of Sheep, Ira Sachs's debut film (which got little acclaim at Sundance while inferior movies took prizes) studies its characters-two young men exploring sex in Mississippi -and setting with such deep curiosity it's as if the events on the screen had an authentic, certifiable life going on while the camera's off. A Faulknerian look at thwarted desire shot in evocatively muted 16mm, it is the most substantive independent film in years.
- Armond White, New York Press
More like a European art film from back in the day than an American independent, The Delta is a remarkably assured feature debut from writer-director Sachs. So many filmmakers set out to create Hollywood calling cards with their freshman efforts that the word independent has come to describe little more than how a film is financed. But The Delta is that rare movie that is independent-minded, giving the jaded moviegoer cause to rejoice.
- Time Out
A Warholesque meditation on sexual ambiguity.
- Filmmaker Magazine
In Ira Sachs's wonderfully twisted faux-documentary Lady, Dominique Dibbell... stars as a lesbian playing a gay man playing a '70's TV star, or something like that. This is the loopiest genderfuck of the year.
- PlanetOut.com
Lady will suspend you throughout its 28-minute life.
- Nightlines Weekly
The pick of the bunch is…Ira Sachs's Lady.
- Eye Weekly
Ira Sachs's untitled montage of photos of missing people-taken from flyers posted near Ground Zero-haunts us with the beauty of ordinary people at ordinary moments.
- CityPages.com
Highly emotional
- Seattle Times
A parade of faces…we leave the theater in stunned silence.
- San Francisco Examiner
Inestimably powerful-for six minutes, the rhetoric, the buzz of commentary, the politics of retribution all slip away
- Philadelphia City Paper
Forty Shades of Blue 
The Delta
Lady