AltWeeklies Wire
Director's Ego Gets in the Way of Burlesque Documentarynew
Featuring film clips and interviews with burlesque icons, Pretty Things makes a case for the difference between the show-and-tell stripping of contemporary times and the slow-burn tease of classic burlesque -- despite the director's need for attention.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Liz Goldwyn, Pretty Things
Middle-Aged Identity Crisis is a Post-Graduate Experiencenew
King of the Corner is a mellow, shaggy, post-Graduate existential crisis in which an ordinary middle-aged man wakes up to his own life and wonders if that's all there is.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: King of the Corner, Peter Riegert
Tim Burton's Latest Film Is Sweetly Sinisternew
Tim Burton's remake matches the original film's tone of whimsy laced with rat poison, but in a vastly more entertaining retelling of the Dahlian classic.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Sexual Intrigue Defines Lives in Heightsnew
New York City is the unbilled big star, second only to Glenn Close, in Heights. It's the place where secret lives can be indulged and where sex charges the air.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-07-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Chris Terrio, Heights
Emperor Penguins Hook Up in Antarctic Adventurenew
As human commitment to "downsizing" the environment intensifies, our interest in its charms appears to be on the rise.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-07-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Luc Jacquet, March of the Penguins
U.N. General Returns to Rwanda in Shake Hands with the Devilnew
Peacekeeper Romeo Dallaire documents the Rwandan genocide through interviews and personal experience.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
06-30-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Film Does Justice To Romantic Wanderlustnew
This French drama is delightful and rare for addressing marriage's lonely, fragile dimensions.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
06-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Happily Ever After, Yvan Attal
Sexual Abuse Haunts Boys in Devastating Filmnew
Mysterious Skin is a depressingly vivid look at the trauma of childhood molestation.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
06-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Gregg Araki, Mysterious Skin
Another Road Home Is a Journey Both Personal and Politicalnew
Another Road Home has echoes of the sharp divide between black and white experience in the United States, and how one race can be oblivious to discrimination, and the other, daily, painfully aware of it.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Another Road Home, Danae Elon
Lords of Dogtown Skates Along the Edgenew
Digging deeper into the personalities behind this fierce cadre of pioneer skateboarders would have made sense, but Lords of Dogtown is unnecessarily beholden to the skating milestones unearthed in Stacy Peralta's documentary.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
06-02-2005 |
Reviews
Globalization Squeezes the Wine Industrynew
A documentary about the changes globalization has wrought on the wine industry, Mondovino, takes a concept that on its surface would have limited appeal, and makes it feel like a matter of profound urgency.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
05-19-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Jonathan Nossiter, Mondovino
Oldboy an Operatic Tale of Revengenew
Oldboy is explosive and crazed. But at moments, the film is also remarkably still and dead calm, suggesting the merry-go-round rhythms of a disturbing dream.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
05-19-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Chan-wook Park, Oldboy
Lady Wrestlers Recall Brawlsnew
Ruth Leitman's illuminating, flinty and sometimes downright depressing documentary follows a subculture of battling dames.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
05-12-2005 |
Reviews
Jane Fonda Sparkles in Film That Betrays Real Womennew
The film underscores two regressive ideas: first, that modern career women are neurotic, unhappy, competitive, underfed bitches; second, that aspiring trophy wives are the more content, well-adjusted ones.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
05-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Robert Luketic, Monster-in-Law
Ridley Scott's Latest a PC Version of the Crusadesnew
In spite of several engaging battle scenes, director Ridley Scott makes even those wild and crazy Middle Ages pale in comparison to all the killing and maiming going down in our own medievalesque Iraq crusade.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
05-05-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Ridley Scott, Kingdom of Heaven
