AltWeeklies Wire
'Man From Plains': Journeys With Jimmynew
This new doc follows former President Carter in his habitat.
New York Press |
Armond White |
10-25-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Jonathan Demme, Man From Plains
Mistaking Pornographic Fascination for Human Truthnew
At age 83, Sidney Lumet tries getting back to the outrageous satirical mode of Network and Just Tell Me What You Want, but Before The Devil Knows You're Dead fails the classic requirements of social critique.
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New York Press |
Armond White |
10-25-2007 |
Reviews
'Pushing Daisies' is a Dark Cartoonnew
So far, the show is hard to predict, and in the copycat world of network TV, that's a good thing.
New York Press |
David Goldman |
10-18-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
'Murder Party' Kills Kids with Humor & Mayhemnew
"I guess the only real issue I have with hipsters and scenesters is intellectual snobbery. It drives me nuts," says director Jeremy Salnier. "Murder Party aims to take their scene and dumb it down with slapstick gags and gratuitous gore."
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
10-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jeremy Saulnier, Murder Party
'Gone Baby Gone': Mean Streetsnew
Irish-American street life and working-class misery are always easy excuses for over acting.
New York Press |
Armond White |
10-18-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Ben Affleck, Gone Baby Gone
'Wristcutters': Death & Pizzanew
Imaginative afterlife story gets mundane on the big screen.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
10-18-2007 |
Reviews
White Lies: Why Critics Don't Get Tyler Perrynew
Most critics don't "get" Tyler Perry basically because most critics are whites who are not only clueless about Perry's African-American culture, but unsympathetic to his particular expression.
New York Press |
Armond White |
10-18-2007 |
Reviews
Sarah Silverman, Devastatingly Cute and Vice Versanew
In the first two second season episodes, Silverman's character takes a joyful trip down memory lane reliving her past abortions, sympathizes with a guy who had to give up crack and rigorously defends her right to lick a dog's anus. It's sick, stupid, brilliant and the bravest sitcom on TV.
New York Press |
Stan Friedman |
10-12-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Anton Corbijn on His Biopic of Joy Division's Ian Curtisnew
"Control is about a boy -- where we see his dream and what happens when it turns out to be different than he thinks," Corbijn explains about his first feature film.
New York Press |
Jennifer Merin |
10-12-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Control, Anton Corbijn
Documentary Captures the Katrina Refugee Experience in Utahnew
In his second feature film, director Alex LeMay attempts to answer the question: What do you get when you take a nearly all-white state filled primarily with Mormons and add 600 black Hurricane Katrina refugees?
New York Press |
Nida Najar |
10-11-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Alex LeMay, Desert Bayou
Hear it From Golda Meirnew
In Golda’s Balcony, the eponymous subject spends the full running time talking to herself. This being filmed theater, it’s clear we’re not dealing with a weirdly nostalgic case of schizophrenia, but I wouldn’t reject the possibility that the entire movie takes place inside Israel’s most iconic prime minister’s head.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
10-11-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Golda's Balcony, Jeremy Kagan
Naturalism Meets Superstition in 'Khadak'new
The filmmakers capitalize on the poetic quality of the nearly wordless movie’s storybook images, but they don’t fetishize the culture; rather, they view it through an honest lens by taking the superstitious elements at face value.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
10-11-2007 |
Reviews
Amir Bar-Lev Parses the Paintnew
He uncovers the dirty secrets of a child art prodigy in My Kid Could Paint That.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
10-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Lake of Fire': The Viscus is the Messagenew
This fascinating documentary essay exposes every angle of the abortion debate.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
10-04-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Lake of Fire, Tony Kaye
'Michael Clayton' Mines the '70s for Style & Substancenew
Hipster filmmakers like Tony Gilroy keep looking backwards to the 1970s, hoping to disguise how ill-equipped they are to deal with contemporary social issues -- that trendiness ruins George Clooney's few attempts at baleful characterization in Michael Clayton.
New York Press |
Armond White |
10-04-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Clayton, Tony Gilroy
