AltWeeklies Wire
Uncle Brian's Turkey-Day Bashnew
A guide to nine of the biggest "turkeys" American cinema has to offer, and an answer to the awake-at-night question, "Is Ishtar really all that terrible?"
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
11-21-2007 |
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'Mist'-ified Horrornew
Goofy Stephen King adaptation can't balance shock with schlock.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
11-21-2007 |
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'I'm Not There' Is Not About Dylan, It's About Haynesnew
Altogether, Todd Haynes' film is a presumptuous act of reverse hubris. No one should expect to be entertained by the story it doesn’t tell or the blind alleys it revisits.
New York Press |
Armond White |
11-21-2007 |
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Tags: I'm Not There, Todd Haynes
Todd Haynes Dives Deep into Dylan With 'I'm Not There'new
With this, his most ambitious work to date, Haynes' affection for re-creating the past finds its match in his innovative dissection of a complex artist's soul.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Cheryl Eddy |
11-21-2007 |
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Tags: I'm Not There, Todd Haynes
Testing the Limits of Artistic Vision in 'Margot'new
Baumbach fifth feature follows in terse, cutting strokes a short-story writer Margot Zeller with teenage son in tow to the wedding of her estranged sister.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
11-21-2007 |
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'It's a Lotta White Folks'new
Alex LeMay's documentary Desert Bayou tells a Hurricane Katrina story that you almost certainly haven't heard, as 600 black New Orleans evacuees are transported to Salt Lake City.
Jackson Free Press |
Darren Schwindaman |
11-20-2007 |
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Tags: Alex LeMay, Desert Bayou
'The First Basket' Expores Jewish Basketball Playersnew
There was a time, strange as it might seem, when short Jewish men dominated the world of basketball.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Steve Cohen |
11-20-2007 |
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Tags: David Vyorst, The First Basket
Troops, I Did It Againnew
Brian De Palma's Redacted shows war imagery because the media won't.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Cindy Fuchs |
11-20-2007 |
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Tags: Brian De Palma, Redacted
'Beowulf': Dead Men Walkingnew
It would be unfair to call the soulless, heartless and corporate Beowulf pornographic. Pornography, at least, attempts to engage us, if only on a level of animal instinct.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Maryann Johanson |
11-20-2007 |
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Tags: Beowulf, Robert Zemeckis
'I'm Not There' Takes on Bob Dylan, in All His Complexitynew
Todd Haynes' approach is daring, complex and brilliantly suited to his subject.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
11-20-2007 |
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Tags: I'm Not There, Todd Haynes
Corn-fed Americanew
King Corn, an amusing and entertaining documentary, traces the sources of the food problem displayed in Super Size Me.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
11-19-2007 |
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Darabont Turns King Novella into Instant-Classic Horror Picture
It took director Frank Darabont writing a better ending for Stephen King's 1980 novella before he could tackle making the best legitimate horror movie to come out in years.
'Southland Tales' Wastes an All-Star Castnew
This is perhaps the most self-indulgent film to come down the pike in more than a decade and is likely to be remembered in the same breath as such other costly debacles as Heaven's Gate and Cleopatra.
Pasadena Weekly |
Carl Kozlowski |
11-19-2007 |
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Tags: Richard Kelly, Southland Tales
Princess Charming
Amy Adams sweetly embodies a human cartoon in Enchanted.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
11-17-2007 |
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Tags: Enchanted, Kevin Lima
Angeleno Apocalyptonew
Two new films -- the sprawling Southland Tales and the focused Smiley Face -- roam our home turf.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
11-16-2007 |
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