Philadelphia City Paper | Sam Adams

Preach for the Starsnew

Talking with There Will Be Blood's Paul Dano.

Philadelphia City Paper | Sam Adams | 01-08-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood

In the Blink of an Eyenew

When Julian Schnabel tells you do to something, he means it.

Philadelphia City Paper | Sam Adams | 12-26-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

'I'm Not There' Breathes Life Into the Many Sides of Bob Dylannew

Like a gem whose intrinsic flaws only make it more fascinating, Todd Haynes' biopic changes shape as you hold it to the light.

Philadelphia City Paper | Sam Adams | 11-27-2007 | Reviews

Tags: I'm Not There, Todd Haynes

'Culture' Crashnew

What Strange Culture says about art, politics and paranoia in post-9/11 America.

Philadelphia City Paper | Sam Adams | 11-13-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Lynn Hershman-Leeson, Strange Culture

'Control' Pays Quiet Tribute to Ian Curtisnew

Bleakly beautiful and elegantly sparse, Anton Corbijn's Control is as rigorously sober and yet filled with emotion as the best of Joy Division's songs.

Philadelphia City Paper | Sam Adams | 10-30-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Control, Anton Corbijn

Dark & Dirty Reign Supreme at the New York Film Festivalnew

The festival may pride itself on its exclusivity, but this year's programming showed a distinct predilection for the company of lowlifes.

Philadelphia City Paper | Sam Adams | 10-16-2007 | Movies

'Into the Wild': Force of Naturenew

Penn's previous movies as a director have been unfailingly pretentious, but Into the Wild is altogether different, a unified, long-haul work that is rarely caught straining for effect.

Philadelphia City Paper | Sam Adams | 10-02-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Into the Wild, Sean Penn

'Manda Bala' is a Chilling Look at Brazilian Kidnappingnew

Kidnapping, corruption and frog farming find common ground in this assured first film from 28-year-old documentary filmmaker Jason Kohn.

Philadelphia City Paper | Sam Adams | 09-18-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Jason Kohn, Manda Bala

Peter Fonda Re-invents Himself for '3:10 to Yuma'new

One moment he's talking about Easy Rider, and the next he's making comments about George W. Bush that might get him arrested were the tape of our interview to fall into the wrong hands.

Philadelphia City Paper | Sam Adams | 09-11-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: 3:10 to Yuma, James Mangold

'The 11th Hour': Hour of Powernew

If the movie's presentation is unexciting (and thus a lot less likely to excite major media and make inroads on shopping malls), the ideas it puts forth are both more frightening and more energizing than those in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.

Philadelphia City Paper | Sam Adams | 08-28-2007 | Reviews

Tags: The 11th Hour, Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners

'The Devil Came on Horseback': Devil Advocatesnew

Brian Steidle, the former U.S. Marine whose chilling photographs brought the horrors of Darfur region to the American public, serves as a compelling a central figure through whose eyes the audience can forge a connection with a complex and sometimes confounding subject.

Philadelphia City Paper | Sam Adams | 08-28-2007 | Reviews

Tags: The Devil Came on Horseback, Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg