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Sink or Swimnew
A Hollywood vessel of doom hunts for the Big Squeeze.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
09-02-2004 |
Reviews
"Bow-Wow," Said the Bunnynew
I can forgive Gallo his histrionics, which are entertaining enough when they’re not downright vicious. What I can’t forgive is his boring me silly.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
09-02-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: The Brown Bunny, Vincent Gallo
Lawn Chair Larry a Flimsy Excuse for a Feature Film.new
In 1982, Los Angeleno Larry Walters earned notoriety by attaching 42 weather balloons to a lawn chair and taking off on a near-fatal flight at 16,000 feet. Jeff Balsmeyer's new Australian comedy takes the episode, transplants it Down Under and recasts "Lawn Chair Larry" as Danny Deckchair in a flimsy excuse for a feature film.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
09-02-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Danny Deckchair, Jeff Balsmeyer
Bang Rajan Rumbles in the Junglenew
In 1765, when Burma's massive army invaded Siam (now called Thailand), a remote village named Bang Rajan held the attackers at bay for five months. The name "Bang Rajan" strikes patriotic chords in Thailand today, explaining why, despite characters as flat as shadow puppets, Tanit Jitnukul's film become the most successful Thai film in the country's history.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
09-02-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Bang Rajan, Tanit Jitnukul
First-Time Director Gets Stuck in a Genre Whirlpoolnew
Mean Creek feels like a supremely milquetoast film made not out of passion, but out of some assurance that a tight screenplay with all the characters' motives and artsy cinematography stacked domino-neatly in a row guarantees success. But as any game player knows, orderly dominoes are made to tumble.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
09-02-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Mean Creek, Jacob Aaron Estes
Echoing Disasternew
Never at any time in The Brown Bunny does Vincent Gallo give the impression of being outside the world of the film: in The Brown Bunny, artist and world are one.
Boston Phoenix |
Chris Fujiwara |
09-02-2004 |
Reviews
An Interview with Vincent Gallonew
Vincent Gallo loves to talk, as followers of his career as musician, painter, actor, and director will have gathered.
Boston Phoenix |
Chris Fujiwara |
09-02-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Fair to Middlingnew
Mira Nair’s Vanity Fair is no bonfire.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Krough |
09-02-2004 |
Reviews
Give Donnie Darko One More Chancenew
With the release of the director's cut, two Bay Guardian critics give bizarre cult film Donnie Darko another chance.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Susan Gerhard |
09-01-2004 |
Reviews
Donnie Darko's Paradise is Lostnew
With the release of the director's cut, two Bay Guardian critics give bizarre cult film Donnie Darko another chance.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Andrew Repasky McElhinney |
09-01-2004 |
Reviews
Unmitigated Gallonew
Six angles on The Brown Bunny's vanishing points
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Edward E. Crouse, Susan Gerhard, Chuck Stephens, Cheryl Eddy, Johnny Ray Huston and M.P. Klier |
09-01-2004 |
Reviews
They Report. You Deride.new
Outfoxed does a fabulous job of juxtaposing clips with commentators, muddling the film so much that despite its welcome progressive principles, it ultimately seems hypocritical at its core.
Broadside Exposes Fox for What It Isnew
Though Outfoxed features interviews with several former Fox employees and commentators, there's not much in the way of smoking guns. The most damning sequences simply play back footage from the channel itself.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Adams |
08-31-2004 |
Reviews
Performing Artist's Troubled Documentary Moves Aheadnew
Michael Masley should be famous by now — a street musician deity, a Tom Waits collaborator and the star of a Sundance documentary. But the disaster surrounding that still-hypothetical flick might explain why Masley hasn't hit the big time.
East Bay Express |
Simon Kinsella |
08-31-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Old Rock Documentary Gets Performers Back on Tracknew
The long-lost audio and video from a little-known concert tour that took place in Canada in 1970 has been recovered and made into a film. The footage included performances from the Grateful Dead, The Band, Buddy Guy and Janis Joplin, who would die but three months after the tour rolled into its final stop in Calgary.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
08-30-2004 |
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