Philadelphia Weekly | Matt Prigge

'The September Issue' Mostly Lobs Softballs at Anna Wintournew

When face time is scored, it's not far from Chris Wallace's recent fawning Dick Cheney interview. Softballs are lobbed, and Wintour gets to look, alas, vaguely human. She remains, basically, unchallenged, her devil boss status unchanged but herself all the more lovable.

Philadelphia Weekly | Matt Prigge | 09-14-2009 | Reviews

Tags: Anna Wintour, R.J. Cutler, The September Issue, Vogue, documentaries

'Humpday' Director Talks How Seattle Inspiration Led to Sundance Acclaimnew

Lynn Shelton hooks up with the Philadelphia Weekly to discuss her sexually and aesthetically adventurous new film 'Humpday'.

Philadelphia Weekly | Matt Prigge | 08-03-2009 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Humpday, Lynn Shelton, amateur gay porn film, Joshua Leonard, Mark Duplass, My Effortless Brilliance, Sundance

Czech Jiri Menzel Shows His Mastery in 'I Served the King of England'new

Like Closely Watched Trains, England was adapted from author Bohumil Hrabal, and likewise concerns the wacky and horrifying misadventures of a well-meaning innocent living (eventually) under occupation.

Philadelphia Weekly | Matt Prigge | 09-08-2008 | Reviews

Tags: I Served the King of England, Jiri Menzel

'Brideshead Revisited' Doesn't Want to Follow Its Sourcenew

Any adaptation ought to be its own thing, but the film's hesitation to follow its source to the end produces a confused, schizophrenic work.

Philadelphia Weekly | Matt Prigge | 07-28-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Julian Jarrold, Brideshead Revisited

'Love Songs' Offers Perverse Entertainmentnew

The film takes a sudden nosedive into a deep, deep funk, vying to becoming the most depressing musical since Cabaret.

Philadelphia Weekly | Matt Prigge | 06-23-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Drama, Christophe Honore, Love Songs, Chiara Mastroianni, Clotilde Hesme, Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet, Louis Garrel, Ludivine Sagnier, musical

Enemy of the Statenew

Director Cristian Mungiu discusses his acclaimed film about illegal abortion in Communist Romania.

Philadelphia Weekly | Matt Prigge | 02-11-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Cristian Mungiu

Mitchell Lichtenstein is Half-Cockednew

Teeth takes a horror premise (chick with a toothed vagina that chomps off male members) and plays it just as much for satire as it does for genre thrills.

Philadelphia Weekly | Matt Prigge | 01-28-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Mitchell Lichtenstein, Teeth

'Persepolis': A Good But Unnecessary Adaptationnew

While its minimalist black-and-white drawing style makes it a prime candidate for a translation from comics to film, Persepolis runs into a bit of a snag.

Philadelphia Weekly | Matt Prigge | 01-22-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Persepolis, Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi

One-Flick Ponies?new

With Juno, director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody prove to be more.

Philadelphia Weekly | Matt Prigge | 12-17-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Juno, Jason Reitman

Das Lootnew

A documentary deftly explores the Nazi theft of thousands of works of art.

Philadelphia Weekly | Matt Prigge | 12-04-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen and Nicole Newnham, The Rape of Europa

The Fests Are Yet to Comenew

The Terror Film Festival isn't mentioned in the same breath as Cannes, Sundance, Toronto or even our own Philadelphia Film Festival, but it's gained a rapid notoriety within the festival community -- unheard of for a fest whose second year hasn't even happened yet.

Philadelphia Weekly | Matt Prigge | 10-15-2007 | Movies

Robert Benton on Nudity and 'Feast of Love'new

If there's a near-constant in the films written or directed by Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer, Nobody's Fool), it's that they tend to have an unusual amount of bare flesh for mainstream Hollywood fare.

Philadelphia Weekly | Matt Prigge | 10-01-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Feast of Love, Robert Benton