AltWeeklies Wire
Crooked Fingers Explores Matters of the Heartnew
Dignity and Shame, the fourth Crooked Fingers album since 2000, and first on Seattle's Sub Pop Records, is an album that features a menagerie of characters in dilemma, and yet it offers more hope and concession than any of Eric Bachmann's previous works.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
03-17-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Crooked Fingers, Dignity and Shame
Some Tips on Trading Beer for Wine -- For a Daynew
After months of drunken observation, and many slurred debates over which alcohol rules, I realized our two camps -- wine and beer -- aren't as far apart as we think.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Taylor Eason |
03-17-2005 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Corkscrew
Through the Eyes of Haitiansnew
It would have been nice to see director Jonathan Demme rise above a relatively traditional, at times stodgy documentary format reliant on talking head interviews to link the revolutionary practices of Dominique with the revolutionary possibility of film style.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
03-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Jonathan Demme, The Agronomist
Get a Little Sweet and Sour with Animationnew
The Animation Show 2005, an evening of cartoon shorts presented by Oscar nominee Don Hertzfeldt and "King of the Hill's" Mike Judge, offers flashes of delight while confirming the adage that life is nasty, brutish and short.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
03-17-2005 |
Reviews
Media Influences Color Experience and Perception of Warnew
Gunner Palace is shaped by not only contemporary documentary conventions, but by fictional war films like Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket, which seem to play continuously in the back of director Michael Tucker's and the soldiers' minds.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
03-17-2005 |
Reviews
Joan Allen Chews Everybody Out in The Upside of Angernew
Director Mike Binder shows little insight into the mind of Terry, whose husband abandons her. Terry's daughters never develop past the simplest possible characterizations, and the film can't decide whether to make Terry a villain, a victim or a feminist heroine.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
03-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike Binder, The Upside of Anger
Message Offers Good Plan for Revival in Big Tentnew
In her funny, vulnerable meditations on living a meaningful life in the midst of trials and sorrows -- many of which she blames on Dubya Bush and his disciples -- Anne Lamott is not afraid to reference a wise word or two from Rumi, the Dali Lama, or the Catholic vision of the Virgin Mary.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
03-17-2005 |
Nonfiction
GOP's Pro-bidness Stance Could Prompt Voter Backlashnew
This session in the first completely Republican-controlled Georgia General Assembly in more than a century is shaping up to be remembered as the one in which the Legislature noisily consummated its long-running love affair with big business, corporate interests and rich folks in general.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Scott Henry |
03-17-2005 |
Politics
Capitol Doors Closed to Visitors on 'Family Day'new
On March 12, a day touted by Republican leaders as an opportunity for John Q. Public to see his Legislature at work, Georgia state troopers barred the doors of the Gold Dome, temporarily shutting out hundreds of visitors, lobbyists and liberal activists.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Scott Henry |
03-17-2005 |
Politics
Back to Bhutannew
Travellers & Magicians feels a bit like Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales as retold by Siddhartha, as this Himalayan beauty gently delivers a very accurate anti-materialistic Buddhist morality lesson.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
03-16-2005 |
Reviews
Steam Heatnew
Japanese anime director Katsuhiro Ôtomo, best known for Akira, here delivers a dazzlingly straightforward rush that thrusts its protagonist into astonishing action set-piece after set-piece.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
03-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Katsuhiro Ôtomo, Steamboy
The New Palace Guardnew
Uday Hussein's former pleasure palace is now home to an American artillery regiment, whose members we get to know from their poolside antics to their far more sobering responsibilities of patrolling Baghdad.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
03-16-2005 |
Reviews
No Child Left Behindnew
Even though Born Into Brothels – winner of the 2004 Oscar for Best Documentary – is a devastating portrait of impoverished Calucutta children who are born into the sex trades, the film is also an inspiring document about human possibilities.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
03-16-2005 |
Reviews
One Spooks; the Other Doesn'tnew
Dread and mystery are the hallmarks of this South Korean psychological thriller.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
03-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: A Tale of Two Sisters, Kim Ji-woon
The Boy Can't Help Itnew
Only this troubled suburbanite family knows if they are imaginary heroes or ordinary people.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
03-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dan Harris, Imaginary Heroes
