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The 'Meat' and 'Missile' Mannew
The renowned documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman is busier than ever.
INDY Week |
Douglas Vuncannon |
03-22-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Frederick Wiseman
North Carolina's Film Industry is Booming Againnew
Thanks to a new state incentives package, North Carolina is back in the film game.
Suspicious Mindsnew
It was all sound and fury, signifying nothing, which is also a good description of the political and media circus that has surrounded Hounddog since midway through shooting in the summer of 2006 in eastern North Carolina.
Lion in Winternew
Venus works in large part because O'Toole's mere presence helps you relate to Maurice's history and battles with old age -- it's not just a random old man getting a prostate exam, it's Lawrence of Arabia being jellyfingered.
Bright Spot in Dismal Oscar Seasonnew
"Worst. Oscars. Ever." The admirably concise e-mail from a critic friend handily summed up my own reaction to last week's announcement of the Academy Award nominations.
Queens and Kingsnew
Ten minutes in to Blossoming, you've not only entered a story but a world of indelible images, rituals, textures, eccentricities.
Female Troublenew
Penelope Cruz's magnificent, Oscar-nominated performance also marks a welcome return to Spain from the wife-and-girlfriend ghetto of her disappointing Hollywood sojourn.
The Dogs of Warnew
Letters From Iwo Jima and The Good German are both turkeys -- though of an interestingly similar sort.
Oriented Sexualitynew
Adulterous women are at the center of two new films set in China -- Curse of the Golden Flower and The Painted Veil.
One of Bollywood's Bestnew
A straightlaced cop teams with a bad boy cycle racer in a breathlessly entertaining movie of monumental silliness.
Tags: Dhoom 2, Sanjay Gadhvi
An Epic Messnew
The film adaptation of Perfume took years to make -- Stanley Kubrick considered it unfilmable -- and the result is a gory mess.
Tags: Tom, Perfume: The Story of A Murderer, Tom Tykwer, Alan, Kubrick, Lola, Rickman, Run, Stanley, Tykwer
Ready for the Countrynew
This tale of two men in the woods is one of the best films of 2006, and its reminiscent of the best films of the 1970s as well.
Next Year's Modelnew
Have we already seen the dawn and dusk of the DVD?
Eyes of the Tigernew
Underdogs go over the top in three holiday releases -- Dreamgirls, Rocky Balboa, and We Are Marshall.
The 'Extreme' Message of the Seasonnew
It's easy to be cynical about Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and it's harder to turn it into a model for volunteerism -- but we should.
Tags: TV
