AltWeeklies Wire
Media Influences Color Experience and Perception of Warnew
Gunner Palace is shaped by not only contemporary documentary conventions, but by fictional war films like Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket, which seem to play continuously in the back of director Michael Tucker's and the soldiers' minds.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
03-17-2005 |
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Star Power Shorts Out in Be Coolnew
Gray should be cutting Tarantino royalty checks considering how much he lifts from that director's act. Travolta and Thurman re-do their Pulp Fiction sexy dance, and black characters launch irate Tarantino-esque monologues over the use of the "N" word.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
03-10-2005 |
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Tags: Be Cool, F. Gary Gray
Film Finds Hope in the Art of Photographynew
The children offer shockingly perceptive, eloquent insight into their situations, and some exquisite photographs to boot. There are photographs of the intractable chaos of their lives, but also images that show how children can transcend even the most degraded circumstances.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
03-10-2005 |
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Inside Deep Throat Doesn't Go Deep Enoughnew
Compared to Kinsey's examination of the conflicts sex sets off in the human animal, Inside Deep Throat is kid's stuff, arguing for moral extremes rather than nuance. Especially grating is how the filmmakers create a conventional divide between the libertines and the blue nose porn-censors.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
03-10-2005 |
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Flick Weaves a Wandering Webnew
Government official Dondup's escape from his Himalayan home proves increasingly futile in Travellers and Magicians. As it progresses, Bhutanese monk/filmmaker Khyentse Norbu lets some of the realism dissipate as his film begins to take on the ambiance of a fairy tale.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
03-03-2005 |
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MTV Visuals and a Ludicrous Plot Unravel The Jacketnew
On a Gulf War battlefield, Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) experiences the first of many head injuries when he's shot point-blank by an Iraqi child. Viewers may also feel as if they've experienced blunt trauma to the head after watching The Jacket.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
03-03-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: John Maybury, The Jacket
Mad Black Woman Tries to Appeal to Everyonenew
Like an all-you-can-eat buffet, there is an overwhelming abundance to sample here. You can have a little bit of everything in Diary of a Mad Black Woman but still feel unsatisfied by the time you leave
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
02-25-2005 |
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Pity Party of Onenew
A Tadpole romance is one thing. But P.S.' increasingly dopey script, adapted from Helen Schulman's novel, can't leave it at intergenerational hanky-panky.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
02-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dylan Kidd, p.s.
A Girl and Her Dog Mend a Town in Because of Winn-Dixienew
Because of Winn-Dixie offers both some expectedly saccharine kid-film elements, but also some real surprises for the way it injects adult realities into its bittersweet confection.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
02-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Wayne Wang, Because of Winn-Dixie
Get Hitchnew
Sure, Will Smith is lovable in the inoffensive, easy manner of no-iron shirts and margarine. But when Hitch lapses into romance mode, the energy goes down the drain quicker than a bottle of Drano.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
02-10-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Andy Tennant, Hitch
Viewers May Be Moved Despite Themselvesnew
The documentary is about how one rural Whitwell, Tenn., middle school in 1998 built a remarkable monument commemorating the Holocaust. Honoring documentary convention to the letter, the film rests on a backhanded compliment.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
02-03-2005 |
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It Could Be Science FIction, But It's Based in Realitynew
Moolaadé is an impassioned treatise, not only against the mutilation of women, but also against the power structures of village life, where men are revered as gods and women are little more than livestock.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
02-03-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Moolaadé, Ousmane Sembene
Pedro Almodovar Goes Deep in Newest Flicknew
Almodovar's latest film manages to balance queeny bravado and a malaise so deeply buried it approaches the hysteria of classic Hollywood melodramas. Married to gay misbehavior, this makes for a heady brew.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
01-21-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Pedro Almodóvar, Bad Education
For Seamstress, Home is Where the AIDS Memorial Quilt isnew
Gert McMullin, the unofficial caretaker of the 54-ton AIDS memorial quilt, tends not just the quilt, but the people who make the panels.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
01-21-2005 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Cinematic Swoon Over Operatic Action Flicknew
In addition to its essential love story, House of Flying Daggers is a class tale of characters who are pawns in larger political forces and whose endless battles have a sad futility. The characters fight for their masters, squandering lives that should be spent in love.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
01-13-2005 |
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