AltWeeklies Wire
For Rick Greenwald, Winning Isn't Everythingnew
Caltech athletes find victory off the court in Quantum Hoops.
Pasadena Weekly |
Carl Kozlowski and Jana Monji |
11-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Quantum Hoops, Rick Greenwald
The Actual Definitive Ultimate Director's Cutnew
Blade Runner is back again -- the way it was meant to be seen.
Chicago Reader |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
11-05-2007 |
Reviews
'Lions for Lambs' is Years Behind the Times
Overtly pedantic and overstrained, Tom Cruise's first undertaking as co-head of United Artists is a politically top-heavy triptych of simultaneous political conversations made all the more cumbersome due to its extravagant cast.
Tags: Lions for Lambs, Robert Redford
Keeping God Out of the Classroom
NOVA explores the court case that decided "intelligent design" has no place in public schools in Judgment Day.
Tags: TV
The Coen Brothers Go West
After a string of disappointing projects, Joel and Ethan Coen have hit cinematic paydirt with Cormac McCarthy's 2003 western crime novel No Country for Old Men.
AFI Returns with Ample Pickingsnew
AFI Fest -- one of L.A.'s two major, all-purpose festivals -- has taken a lot of knocks since day one.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
11-02-2007 |
Movies
Bruce McDonald Jazzes Up 'The Tracey Fragments'new
There have been several contradictions in McDonald's life and career, but in truth, he is a sensible man.
The Georgia Straight |
Ian Caddell |
11-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Jery Seinfeld on 'Bee Movie'new
Like the awkward little insects it's based on, Bee Movie manages to get off the ground against the odds.
The Georgia Straight |
Ian Caddell |
11-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Steve Gallucio on 'Surviving My Mother'new
His latest screenplay was originally intended for the stage.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
11-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Sticky Wicketnew
A Jamaican teaches a young Jew what's cricket -- in every sense -- in Wondrous Oblivion.
Nashville Scene |
Jim Ridley |
11-02-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Paul Morrison, Wondrous Oblivion
Lee Chang-Dong Lets the Sunshine Innew
South Korean filmmaker illuminates life's emotional twists and turns.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
11-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Lee Chang-Dong, Secret Sunshine
Seeing the Light with Director Carlos Reygadasnew
Reygadas' third feature, Silent Light, is in some ways his most audacious undertaking yet: a drama of marital and spiritual crisis set in a modern-day Mennonite community on the outskirts of Chihuahua, filmed entirely in the German-derived Plautdeitsch language.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
11-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Carlos Reygadas, Silent Light
Bad Things Happen to Bad People in 'Before the Devil Knows You're Dead'new
That sly old elf Sidney Lumet opens his new movie with a sexual encounter you might associate with a man spending his frustration on a compliant hooker.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
11-02-2007 |
Reviews
Little Children in the Moviesnew
My 9-year-old daughter's interest in boys is largely confined to whether she can outrun them, and yet she has acquired a precise, if mercifully abstract, grasp of the contemporary arts of seduction.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
11-02-2007 |
Movies
Tilda Swinton: The Ice Queen Meltethnew
Though Swinton's career has taken a decided turn for the commercial these days, I still think of her as the intimidating eminence rouge in the elliptically stylized Jarman films that launched her career, or the ornately costumed androgyne in Potter's Orlando, or even the frigid witch in Andrew Adamson's The Chronicles of Narnia.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
11-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
