AltWeeklies Wire
Korean Fusionnew
Though specific to his country's cultural situation, Korean director Hong Sang-soo's Woman on the Beach offers flavors of quarterlife angst and romantic insecurity for which American audiences clearly have an insatiable appetite.
New York Press |
Benjamin Sutton |
01-10-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Hong Sang-soo, Women on the Beach
No Country for Unconscious Peoplenew
John Sayles puts the imaginative life of African-Americans on the screen better than most.
New York Press |
Armond White |
01-10-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Honeydripper, John Sayles
Horror's New Kingnew
Producer Guillermo del Toro on Almodovar, the female force in film and discrimination against kids in cinema.
New York Press |
Jennifer Merin |
01-03-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Juan Antonio Bayona, The Orphanage
Inside the Mind of a Killernew
Factual consistency predicates the narrative in The Killing of John Lennon, but Andrew Piddington's re-creation of Lennon assassin Mark David Chapman's descent into murderous insanity is hardly a procedural investigation into psychological disarray.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
01-03-2008 |
Reviews
A Year Without Altmannew
The notable abscence of the master director diminished the art of movies in 2007.
New York Press |
Armond White |
01-03-2008 |
Movies
Everybody and Their Brother Made a Movie in 2007new
Coens, Afflecks, Farrellys, Wilsons, Wachowskis… O brother, there art thou!
New York Press |
Staff |
01-03-2008 |
Movies
The Better Than Listnew
End of the year movie polls used to offer consensus; now they preserve film culture's herd-mentality. But anyone who responds to movies for what they mean -- instead of the way they are sold -- must depart the herd. That's how to find good, unheralded (often derided) films that don't insult the intelligence.
New York Press |
Armond White |
01-03-2008 |
Movies
'The Orphanage': Scary Movienew
Spanish horror from newcomer Juan Antonio Bayona brings back the thrill of a classic ghost story.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
12-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Juan Antonio Bayona, The Orphanage
'The Bucket List': When Jack Met Morgannew
Rob Reiner's new comedy contradicts itself with star power.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
12-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Rob Reiner, The Bucket List
'The Great Debaters' Commits the Worst Kind of Sentimentalizingnew
Denzel Washington's black biopic is more concerned with uplifting than exposing truth.
New York Press |
Armond White |
12-27-2007 |
Reviews
'Charlie Wilson's War': Power Chicnew
Mike Nichols and Aaron Sorkin replace the solemnity of war with irreverent shtick.
New York Press |
Armond White |
12-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike Nichols, Charlie Wilson's War
Bride and Prejudicenew
Dutiful and religious in a time when neither are in fashion, the two young women in Arranged -- one Muslim, the other Orthodox Jewish -- are drawn toward one another as they navigate traditional ways of finding partners in a nontraditional world.
New York Press |
Shahnaz Habib |
12-20-2007 |
Reviews
Growing Up in Extremist Timesnew
Marjane Satrapi's memories of Iran come to life in vivid black and white in Persepolis.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
12-20-2007 |
Reviews
Walk Softnew
The cast is the only reason that The Walker, Paul Schrader's elegant whodunit, never becomes entirely lethargic.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
12-20-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Paul Schrader, The Walker
Second Life is for Sapsnew
P.S. I Love You is a sentimental love story offers little more than mopey moments.
New York Press |
Jennifer Merin |
12-20-2007 |
Reviews
