New Interviews
Nowhere Now: The Ballad of Joshua Tree: An interview with Don DiNicola Joshua Tree, the high desert community outside Los Angeles, has become a mecca for exciting musical voices. How the particularities of this place—its history and traditions, its isolation from urban centers, and its unique atmosphere and community—have ... read more Posted on 08/25/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) Don't Hate the Playa, Hate the Game
An interview with director Jessica Yu: In PING PONG PLAYA, Christopher "C-dub" Wang is a suburban guy who sports an urban swagger, waxes political on all things Asian American, and clings to pipe dreams of a career as a pro basketball player. Blaming genetics for his failure to make ... read more Posted on 08/22/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) Being McDowell Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry
An interview with actor Malcolm McDowell: NEVER APOLOGIZE, the documentary of Malcolm McDowell’s celebration of Lindsay Anderson, their times and their colleagues, is a unique hybrid of film, theater and literature. It has been selected for presentation in the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Classics section, where it will ... read more Posted on 08/22/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) About Face: The Mystique of an Actor’s VisageCould anything be more devastating to an actor than losing his face? Maybe not. Yet Montgomery Clift and Mark “Star Wars” Hamill ( a lesser talent, to be sure) both soldiered on after disfiguring car accidents and painful skin grafts. Granted, Clift doused himself with booze and pills to kill ... read more Posted on 08/21/08 by: DGSmith Comments (0 ) Just One Hit and You Will Be High Enough to See:
Review of Pineapple Express
JeanLuc Smokehard here, with his first review: Where should I start, where should I start…. Hold on (spark, pull, bubble, inhale, exhale) OK, I’m ready. Packing into a 7 o clock showing on opening weekend of Pineapple Express, one might be overwhelmed by the second hand stoned-ness. Beavis and Butt-Head-esque ... read more Posted on 08/19/08 by: JLSmokehard Comments (2 ) Revisiting "Trouble the Water"Back in January, at the Sundance Film Festival, I wrote a little notice about Carl Deal and Tia Lessin's documentary, "Trouble the Water," which went on to win the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary. The film, which accompanies aspiring hip-hop artist Kimberly Roberts and her husband, Scott, through the ... read more Posted on 08/18/08 by: DGSmith Comments (0 ) From Sundance to the Cinema: Trouble the Water
An interview with directors Tia Lessin and Carl Deal: How is it that Hurricane Katrina managed to revolutionize American attitudes about the environment, but somehow the very people most devastated by the storm have become refugees in their own country, and their experiences have been all but forgotten? In ... read more Posted on 08/15/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) New Interviews
FLOW: For the Love of Water: An interview with director Irina Salina: Under the cover of darkness, African plumbers secretly reconnect shantytown water pipes to ensure a community’s survival. A California scientist exposes toxic public water supplies. A “water guru” promotes community-based initiatives to provide water throughout India. The ... read more Posted on 08/15/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) From Sundance to the Cinema 3: Momma's Man
Momma's Man: An interview with director Azazel Jacobs and actor Matt Boren: MOMMA'S MAN begins with Mikey returning to his parents' place in New York after deciding not to get on the plane to go home to his wife and small child in California. Unsure of his own motivations, ... read more Posted on 08/15/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) Featured Articles
By Damon Smith It is a real treat to be a filmgoer in New York City this week, when new films by two elder statesmen of the French New Wave (not the ... read more Posted on 08/15/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) |
New Interviews
Nowhere Now: The Ballad of Joshua Tree: An interview with Don DiNicola Joshua Tree, the high desert community outside Los Angeles, has become a mecca for exciting musical voices. How the particularities of this place—its history and traditions, its isolation from urban centers, and its unique atmosphere and community—have ... read more Posted on 08/25/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Don't Hate the Playa, Hate the Game
An interview with director Jessica Yu: In PING PONG PLAYA, Christopher "C-dub" Wang is a suburban guy who sports an urban swagger, waxes political on all things Asian American, and clings to pipe dreams of a career as a pro basketball player. Blaming genetics for his failure to make ... read more Posted on 08/22/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Being McDowell Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry
An interview with actor Malcolm McDowell: NEVER APOLOGIZE, the documentary of Malcolm McDowell’s celebration of Lindsay Anderson, their times and their colleagues, is a unique hybrid of film, theater and literature. It has been selected for presentation in the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Classics section, where it will ... read more Posted on 08/22/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
About Face: The Mystique of an Actor’s VisageCould anything be more devastating to an actor than losing his face? Maybe not. Yet Montgomery Clift and Mark “Star Wars” Hamill ( a lesser talent, to be sure) both soldiered on after disfiguring car accidents and painful skin grafts. Granted, Clift doused himself with booze and pills to kill ... read more Posted on 08/21/08 by: DGSmith Comments (0 ) Revisiting "Trouble the Water"Back in January, at the Sundance Film Festival, I wrote a little notice about Carl Deal and Tia Lessin's documentary, "Trouble the Water," which went on to win the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary. The film, which accompanies aspiring hip-hop artist Kimberly Roberts and her husband, Scott, through the ... read more Posted on 08/18/08 by: DGSmith Comments (0 ) 
From Sundance to the Cinema: Trouble the Water
An interview with directors Tia Lessin and Carl Deal: How is it that Hurricane Katrina managed to revolutionize American attitudes about the environment, but somehow the very people most devastated by the storm have become refugees in their own country, and their experiences have been all but forgotten? In ... read more Posted on 08/15/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
New Interviews
FLOW: For the Love of Water: An interview with director Irina Salina: Under the cover of darkness, African plumbers secretly reconnect shantytown water pipes to ensure a community’s survival. A California scientist exposes toxic public water supplies. A “water guru” promotes community-based initiatives to provide water throughout India. The ... read more Posted on 08/15/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
From Sundance to the Cinema 3: Momma's Man
Momma's Man: An interview with director Azazel Jacobs and actor Matt Boren: MOMMA'S MAN begins with Mikey returning to his parents' place in New York after deciding not to get on the plane to go home to his wife and small child in California. Unsure of his own motivations, ... read more Posted on 08/15/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Featured Articles
By Damon Smith It is a real treat to be a filmgoer in New York City this week, when new films by two elder statesmen of the French New Wave (not the ... read more Posted on 08/15/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) Twilight of the Idols: Chabrol’s “A Girl Cut in Two” and Rohmer’s “The Romance of Astrea and CeladonIt is a real treat to be a filmgoer in New York City this week, when new films by two elder statesmen of the French New Wave (not the usual suspects, either) will have their theatrical debut. Godard may hog the limelight with near-annual retrospectives of his ’60s oeuvre (someone ... read more Posted on 08/14/08 by: DGSmith Comments (0 ) |
Just One Hit and You Will Be High Enough to See:
Review of Pineapple Express
JeanLuc Smokehard here, with his first review: Where should I start, where should I start…. Hold on (spark, pull, bubble, inhale, exhale) OK, I’m ready. Packing into a 7 o clock showing on opening weekend of Pineapple Express, one might be overwhelmed by the second hand stoned-ness. Beavis and Butt-Head-esque ... read more Posted on 08/19/08 by: JLSmokehard Comments (2 ) The Auteur
Review of The Auteur
This mocumentary is one of the cleverest and funniest I've seen. It manages to send up both the porn industry, and the fawning "artist retrospective" industry as well. A few friends of mine saw it, and despite our varying tastes we agreed that it was our "Best Movie you will ... read more Posted on 08/11/08 by: thatneuro Comments (1 ) Equilibri-dumbReview of Equilibrium
You would have to try really hard to come up with a more predictable plot. About five minutes into the movie, the untrained viewer can sketch out each plot twist all the way to the end. The fight scenes? Superior. On par with the Matrix. If you must watch this ... read more Posted on 08/10/08 by: eveross Comments (1 ) Don't let the title scare you offReview of Son of Rambow
What to do on a dreary, rainy day? Well, go to the movies of course, but did I really want to drive down to Salt Lake to see one? No, not really, but am I glad I did! My oldest daughter and I had an incredible bonding experience watching a ... read more Posted on 08/01/08 by: silent one Comments (0 ) Batman has grown up!Review of The Dark Knight
While very dark, The Dark Knight is also enlightening. If you were to research the questions of whether good and evil are part of every human’s basic make-up, and what does it take to turn a good person into an evil one, you might head for some heavy-duty texts written ... read more Posted on 08/01/08 by: silent one Comments (0 ) Go Straight to Hellboy
Review of Hellboy 2
Hellboy is back and he’s redder than ever. The sequel to 2006’s "Hellboy" has been gathering momentum due to the visionary direction of Guillermo del Toro and has garnered a number of scorching reviews lauding the film’s visual intricacy. While there is certainly no doubt that "Hellboy 2: The Golden ... read more Posted on 07/21/08 by: TheDailyKirk Comments (1 ) Red’s Dead Baby, Red’s Dead.
Review of Red
In case, like me, you are confused by the title of Trygve Allister Diesen’s new film “Red”, let me clarify a few things for you: * This is not a prequel to the Warren Beatty movie “Reds.” * This is not one third of a French art-house trilogy. * This ... read more Posted on 07/18/08 by: TheDailyKirk Comments (0 ) The Little Engine That Could… MURDER YOU!
Review of Transsiberian
Trains have always been a good place to kill someone. Not so much if you are the murderer (or murderee, for that matter) but if you are making a film about a murder, put the whole thing on a train and you are good to go. The combination of claustrophobic ... read more Posted on 07/18/08 by: TheDailyKirk Comments (0 ) HULK SMASH! HULK SMASH! HULK LACKLUSTER MEDIOCRE EFFORT!
Review of The Incredible Hulk
Talk about living up to my lowest expectations… So remember when Ang Lee made a Hulk movie and everyone was really disappointed in him? And like they were totally dissing him? And like no one asked him to prom? He was all like “Hey I love this movie! You guys ... read more Posted on 07/10/08 by: TheDailyKirk Comments (0 ) 21
Review of 21
The film is a hodgepodge of been-there-done-that plot elements and caters exclusively to today's ADD-riddled generation. It explains very little of the science and mathematics behind the caper (a cursory and incomplete reference to the Monty Hall Problem is deemed satisfactory in trying to belittle the viewer), and only tangentially ... read more Posted on 07/08/08 by: NightPutting Comments (1 ) |
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