AltWeeklies Wire
Director Tackles Teen Pregnancy in New Filmnew
Director Todd Solondz looks and acts pretty much like you'd expect the architect of some of the ickiest, misanthropic films on the indie scene to look and act.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
05-05-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Palindromes, Todd Solondz
Scuzzy Execs Run Amok at Enronnew
Alex Gibney's documentary is super scary, infuriating and perversely entertaining. It's the ultimate exhilaratingly feel-bad drama for an America coming to terms with the scuzzy business practices that place shareholder profits above human decency.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
04-28-2005 |
Reviews
Sparks Fail to Ignite in Filmnew
Dramatic hysteria knows no bounds in dot the i, a film that has the up-and-down rhythm of a roller coaster - with none of the thrills.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
04-28-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dot the I, Matthew Parkhill
Film Struggles to Show What it's Like to Be Young and Angrynew
How a film so centered on disillusioned youth with a great soundtrack and directed by a genuine Scottish punk turned out so square is one of the film's biggest mysteries.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
04-21-2005 |
Reviews
Director Attempts to Deify Bike Racingnew
Had director Dana Brown simply focused on the cheap thrills of the racing in his impressive helicopter shots, the film might have shaken some of its self-aggrandizing pretense and been satisfied with just being a sensation-packed thrill ride.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
04-21-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dana Brown, Dust to Glory
Film Turns National Tragedy Into Predictable Thrillernew
The way the film uses references to genocide, homicidal dictators and AIDS gives a shallow, disturbing quality to a routine Hollywood thriller. Africa may have limited economic value to the West, but its steady stream of real-life nightmares could be its best export for Hollywood filmmakers willing to craft entertainment out of other nations' misery.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
04-21-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Sydney Pollack, The Interpreter
The Thug Franchise Continuesnew
Hip-hop mogul Damon Dash is already loaded, so it's incomprehensible why he would need to sell this nihilistic, violent cinematic crack to a world that already has plenty of hate to go around.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
04-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Damon Dash, State Property 2
Father-Daughter Relationship Suffersnew
Conveying a muddle of vanity, pride, vulnerability and heartsickness, Daniel Day-Lewis breaks your heart with his portrayal of an off-the-grid hippie who is running on the fumes of a failed Utopia.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
04-07-2005 |
Reviews
Eros' Three-Pronged Poke Leaves a Lot to be Desirednew
Eros feels almost entirely irrelevant, when each of its directors has already crafted memorable films in which desire and longing are the subflooring of daily life.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
04-07-2005 |
Reviews
Heroic Efforts and Silly Plot Turns Leave Earnest Sahara in the Dustnew
Sahara has a world-is-my-oyster feel rooted less in the magic of moviemaking than it is in a jingoistic belief embraced by some Americans, of their own homegrown superheroic capabilities. An African civil war, deadly plague and a gorgeous lady doctor just don't stand a chance.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
04-07-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Breck Eisner, Sahara
Pretty in Pink Answer to Neighborly Brother in Lovenew
Beauty Shop limps feebly along when plot details intrude to gum up the film's frothy, escapist works.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
03-31-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Beauty Shop, Bille Wolfe
Director Danny Boyle Gets Lost in the Plot of Millionsnew
Millions starts off with a bushel of important ideas. But by the end, there's just the hero battling a stock baddie as all directorial attention turns to foiling the crook a la Home Alone.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
03-31-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Danny Boyle, Millions
Harold Lloyd Film Project Recalls the Career of a Film Pioneernew
One of the overlooked stars of film comedy, atypical comic goof ball Harold Lloyd, promised audiences they could eventually triumph over social class and empty pockets by recasting comedy's chump into a triumphant winner.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
03-24-2005 |
Reviews
Moral Ambiguity and an Abandoned Baby Fuel Up and Downnew
This film from the Czech Republic makes you wonder if the people of this often luckless, tread-upon region will ever be happy.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
03-24-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Jan Hrebejk, Up and Down
Through the Eyes of Haitiansnew
It would have been nice to see director Jonathan Demme rise above a relatively traditional, at times stodgy documentary format reliant on talking head interviews to link the revolutionary practices of Dominique with the revolutionary possibility of film style.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
03-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Jonathan Demme, The Agronomist
