AltWeeklies Wire
#$*! If We Knownew
Quantum physics, intent and possibility, science and fantasy … Is this doc hybrid a goofy cult phenomenon or educational primer?
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-10-2004 |
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Just Shoot Menew
Each character is more distasteful than the next in this vicious revenge fantasy produced by Mel Gibson.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-10-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Paparazzi, Paul Abascal
Women in Lovenew
In this mildly daffy Spanish import, a woman's grown daughters react to the news that their mother has taken a female lover 20 years younger than she.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
09-10-2004 |
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When Metal Meets Touchy-Feelynew
You don't have to be a Metallica fan to enjoy this candid documentary about rockers in therapy.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
09-10-2004 |
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A Bump in the Night, Japanese-Stylenew
Fear of what's lurking just out of sight is at the heart of this horror film.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-10-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Takashi Shimizu, Ju-on: The Grudge
The (Not So) Perfect Scorenew
A solid but uninventive American remake of a sly Argentinean movie about a couple of con men should have left well enough alone.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-10-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Criminal, Gregory Jacobs
Lousy to Tastenew
What could have been an admirable meditation on family opts instead for crass caricature and hip-hop stereotypes.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
09-10-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Lance Rivera, The Cookout
Dial K for Kidnappingnew
It might feel like a B-picture – but a smart, finely tuned one that wouldn’t have been out of place in Roger Corman’s mid-Seventies stable.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-10-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: David R. Ellis, Cellular
Freeze-framenew
Ten years after Roxbury, Massachusetts, filmmaker Robert Patton-Spruill directed his critically acclaimed film Squeeze, he’s finally back behind the camera. Will it be worth the wait? Does it even matter?
Boston Phoenix |
Camille Dodero |
09-09-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Ended Summernew
Robb Moss had a 16-millimeter movie camera in 1978, and he took it with him when he and a group of his closest friends went to the Grand Canyon for a summer on the river, a summer of floats and kayaks, heart-stoppingly gorgeous scenery, open-fire meals and the politics of fading adolescence.
Missoula Independent |
Susanna Sonnenberg |
09-09-2004 |
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Immigrants Chase Green Cards on Reality Shownew
Seen on Spanish-language stations in L.A., San Diego, Houston and Dallas, Gana la Verde is basically Fear Factor, only instead of blondes in bikinis competing for money, the contestants are Latinos competing for a year's worth of counsel from an immigration lawyer.
Long Island Press |
Todd Hyman |
09-09-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
First-Time Director Lance Rivera Never Finds the Laid-Back Tonenew
Too often The Cookout leaves comic opportunities half-baked while smothering the audience in flavorless homilies about family values.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
09-09-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Lance Rivera, The Cookout
Gallo Uses Style as a Distraction From Lack of Originalitynew
All of the negative hype and reports of boos from audiences at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival prove to be legitimate responses to Vincent Gallo's masturbatory opus, The Brown Bunny.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
09-09-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: The Brown Bunny, Vincent Gallo
Philosophical Documentary is About Everything and Nothingnew
If you yawned at the high-tech action scenes of the Matrix movies but loved all the verbiage about the nature of reality, feed your head with What the #$*! Do We Know!?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
09-09-2004 |
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Two Danish Filmmakers Make Art Out of Playnew
Von Trier asked Leth to remake his 1967 short The Perfect Human five times according to von Trier's exacting specifications. The resulting documentary is the ambitious and at times flawed The Five Obstructions, in which Leth and his films are analyzed, scrutinized and cut to pieces by von Trier.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
09-09-2004 |
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