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'Gone Baby Gone' Feels Like Two Narratives Pasted Together
For his directing debut Ben Affleck adapts a Dennis Lehane novel that resists being converted into the usual three-act structure like a circle being jammed into a square.
Tags: Ben Affleck, Gone Baby Gone
'Wristcutters: A Love Story' is Wretched
This film takes such an arch tone by tacitly endorsing suicide that it spends most of its time in narrative freefall.
The Future of Joe Strummer on Film
Julien Temple, the director of the notable Sex Pistols documentary Filth and the Fury, proves he's the right man to make a documentary about the Clash's late frontman.
The World on Firenew
If you were to write down how many fires are raging in Southern California right now, you would be wrong, because every time you look, a new one springs up between the Mexican border and Ventura.
L.A. Weekly |
Judith Lewis |
10-26-2007 |
Disasters
'Lars and the Real Girl' is Surprisingly Touching
Screenwriter Nancy Oliver has crafted a romantic story about a lonely introvert who discovers an ad hoc method of self-therapy in the guise of an anatomically correct silicone love doll.
Turn On the Basement Lightsnew
Rock writer and Dylan freak Sid Griffin attempts to crack one of music's great mysteries.
Cleveland Scene |
Justin F. Farrar |
10-26-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Sidney Lumet's Long Journeynew
The venerable director returns with a devilish thriller.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
10-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Martian Child' is a New Magical Realist Film
It focuses on the primal fear of abandonment of a young orphaned boy named Dennis (Bobby Coleman) who professes to be from Mars.
Tags: Martian Child, Menno Meyjes
Playing Down on Her Luck, Amy Ryan's Star Risesnew
"I hope people ask me, 'Where did you find that local actress?,'" Ben Affleck told Amy Ryan when he cast her as a wreck of a single mother in his directing debut, Gone Baby Gone.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
10-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ben Affleck, Gone Baby Gone
King Baby's Royal Weldingnew
The studio makes jewelry fit for a king or a queen, baby.
L.A. Weekly |
Linda Immediato |
10-26-2007 |
Fashion
Tags: fashion
'Paranoid Park': Nothing Happens
Paranoid Park may be the best of the Van Sant's last four films, but that isn't saying much.
Tags: Gus Van Sant, Paranoid Park
Buy It, Use It, Break It, Fix Itnew
On the eve of its final American performance of 2007, Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter discusses the duo's banner year, the future of the music industry and the current state of electronic music.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
10-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Daft Punk
'American Gangster' Doesn't Rise to the Level of 'Scarface'
Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe deliver inspired performances as rivals from opposite sides of the law in director Ridley Scott's true-crime epic.
Tags: American Gangster, Ridley Scott
Hunting the White Buffalonew
In rural Ohio, meth heads risk everything for a thermos of corn fertilizer.
Cleveland Scene |
Gus Garcia-Roberts |
10-26-2007 |
Drugs
Ecoholic: Digging Up Bamboo's Dark Sidenew
"I know bamboo is a fast-growing resource, but I've heard concerns about its processing. Can you shed some light on this?"
NOW Magazine |
Adria Vasil |
10-26-2007 |
Advice
Tags: bamboo, advice columns
