AltWeeklies Wire
Romania is Where the Action Isnew
When critics aren't whiling away their time discussing the merits of celebrity hairdos, one of their favorite occupations is "discovering" a neglected national film industry and championing it loudly. For the past two years, the hot international project has been Romania.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
01-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Deadly in Pinknew
Teeth's biting satiric gore meets the Brazilian kitchen sink drudgery of Alice's House.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
Trouble All Overnew
The horrors of war in Nanking are so overpowering they make the revolutionary Iran of Persepolis seem inconsequential.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
01-09-2008 |
Reviews
'There Will Be Blood' Falls Down its Own Wellnew
We're variously reminded of Greed, Citizen Kane, Days of Heaven, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and even Werner Herzog's oil-fire documentary, Lessons of Darkness -- all better movies on similar themes.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
01-02-2008 |
Reviews
The Ten Best Movies of 2007new
Throw away your maps and catch up with the ten best movies of 2007. Then go ahead and complain. It's your right.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
12-27-2007 |
Movies
Why is a Paralyzed Editor Like a Hawkish Congressman?new
Take The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to Charlie Wilson's War and find out.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
12-19-2007 |
Reviews
Silk Road Detoursnew
From Afghanistan's blasted terrain (The Kite Runner) to the tea fields of China (All in This Tea) at the movies -- two trips well worth taking.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
12-12-2007 |
Reviews
People Who Need Peoplenew
Are the most fucked-up people in the world. Take it from Noah Baumbach and Kurt Cobain.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
11-28-2007 |
Reviews
Disasters of Warnew
Brian De Palma's Redacted protests the Iraq war while Darfur Now offers hope in the midst of genocide.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
11-15-2007 |
Reviews
Benicio le Founew
Actor Del Toro finally plays the leading man, his way, as a junkie lawyer who comes to Halle Berry's emotional rescue.
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East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
10-24-2007 |
Reviews
'3:10 to Yuma' Successfully Remakes an Adult Westernnew
In overhauling an antique genre piece no one particularly remembers, Mangold kept the original theme -- poor-but-honest homesteader vs. high-living crook -- while simultaneously amping up the many grotesqueries available in the Old West.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
09-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: 3:10 to Yuma, James Mangold
'Ladron que Roba a Ladron': E Pluribus Pratfallnew
An American comedy for the other America.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
08-29-2007 |
Reviews
Nowhere to Runnew
Where's the disaster? Right at Your Door. And what time is it? The 11th Hour.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
08-22-2007 |
Movies
'Ruslan and Ludmila': Unrealismnew
The enchanted world of Aleksandr Ptushko.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
08-15-2007 |
Reviews
'No End in Sight': The Wonks of Warnew
Because Ferguson is a political scientist, his documentary differs from the many films that have tried to explain America's adventure in Iraq anecdotally.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
08-08-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Charles Ferguson, No End in Sight
