That's enough punishment already
I was only mildly into comics as a kid, but my favorite character by far was the bitter and wounded Frank Castle, a man whose family had been murdered and whose search for vengance had turned him into a hard wired killing machine. So i was excited when, in 2004, ... read more Posted on 12/04/08 by: TheDailyKirk Comments (0 ) A little swerve for your Thursday
Not film related per se, but inspiring none the less. Posted on 12/04/08 by: TheDailyKirk Comments (0 ) 2009 Sundance Competitors Announced
The Sundance Film Festival has just announced its line-up for the 2009 competition in both the U.S. and World Cinema categories. Among the 118 narrative features and documentaries to be presented in Park City, 91 will be world premieres. Festival director Geoff Gilmore gives Variety his gloss on ... read more Posted on 12/03/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) A Night at the Gothams
Posted on 12/03/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) Oh, it's good to be back from the Gothams.I would say around 11:00 last night, there was a moment where I was officially lost. I had wandered outside the after party of the Gothams and my inner brain workings weren't working like you would hope. At that moment I wondered what would become of me. Abduction? Death? Deathduction? ... read more Posted on 12/03/08 by: TheDailyKirk Comments (0 ) Let's Build a Fire on Reel 13 ShortsReview of Let's Build a Fire
Amazing that an experimental-type film actually managed to win the Reel 13 shorts contest this week (The other experimental film offered up by Reel 13 – Everyday – didn't fare so well – and rightly so). Some might suggest that LET'S BUILD A FIRE is a music video, but I ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) Half Nelson
Review of Half Nelson
Existence is suffering and a person who realize that real rule have to be lonely. and supposing drugs as medicine for that awareness and pain is completely an evidence for existence is a real sadistic occurrence. Posted on 12/02/08 by: delizade Comments (0 ) I want someone to come repossess my organs!Review of Repo: The Genetic Opera
Repo: The Genetic Opera is like the Rocky Horror Picture Show with a better soundtrack and all the gore of a Saw movie. I was pretty much squirming with delight from beginning to end. Paris Hilton represents. We are gonna be doing midnight showings of this movie for years to ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: CineSlut Comments (2 ) I am adhering to a pretty strict drug regimen to keep my mind limberSome people say it's wrong to go to the movies on drugs. They think it is disrespectful to the spirit of the cinema to show up to a Thursday night screening of Quantum of Solace on three hits of Ecstasy and a half gram of cocaine. They think breaking into ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: JLSmokehard Comments (0 ) Guys and Dolls on Reel 13Review of Guys and Dolls
What many people don't know is that I started in musical theater before I got into filmmaking, so my familiarity with GUYS AND DOLLS, in all its incarnations, goes back a long way. (Fun fact: Did you know that Damon Runyan's character of Sky Masterson was actually based on famed ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) |
Mike D'Angelo's Pre-Festival Toronto Drive-bys
Lorna's Silence (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium/France/Italy): 81 Posted on 08/29/08 by: dangelo Comments (0 ) IN THE BLEAK DECEMBERHave been struggling with the last remnants of chaos from the computer changeover. Had an insomniac fit where instead of sending crazy e-mails, I posted IN THE BLEAK DECEMBER on scribd. But thanks to computer changeover coding crud puppies and my 3 am efforts to get rid of them, chunks ... read more Posted on 08/28/08 by: lonelypond 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 ) 
Twilight of the Idols
Chabrol’s “A Girl Cut in Two” and Rohmer’s “The Romance of Astrea and Celadon" 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 usual suspects, either) will have their ... 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 ) 
CJ7
CJ7: An interview with director Stephen Chow From Stephen Chow, the director and star of Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer, comes CJ7, a new comedy featuring Chow's trademark slapstick antics. Ti (Stephen Chow) is a poor ... read more Posted on 08/14/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Raiders of the Lost ArclightHey, New York! What's your deal?! No, not the reality TV star (sic) New York. I mean the city that supposedly never sleeps, the rumored-to-be big apple, the place that if you make it there you can allegedly make it anywhere. Last night my friends called me from a little ... read more Posted on 08/13/08 by: TheDailyKirk Comments (1 ) 
I wish, I wish, I wish I had a pic!It's nice to see that the community is booming around here. It has been brought to my attention that it is very hard, if not impossible, to add a pic to your profile. This is a bummer. I wasn't here when we first designed the community site, but I am ... read more Posted on 08/12/08 by: TheDailyKirk Comments (0 ) Wanted and Matrix!!!Is it me or is the latest film with AJ very, very similar to the Matrix? Not moaning just bored and thought I would mention it to see what everyone thinks! Ciao! Posted on 08/11/08 by: Kirk2007 Comments (0 ) 
Quick Takes
By Damon Smith If you don’t know who Patti Smith is (New York poet, punk-rock legend, friend to Robert Mapplethorpe, William Burroughs, Bob Dylan, and countless other cool cats), and you’ve never heard her raucous, iconic 1975 album “Horses,” then don’t go looking to Steven ... read more Posted on 08/08/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Tony, Tony, Tony
The Deal: An interview with director Stephen Frears: THE DEAL is director Stephen Frears and writer Peter Morgan’s prequel to “The Queen”. The film traces the devolution in the relationship between the old-fashioned and hard-nosed Gordon Brown (David Morrissey) and the more polished and media-friendly Tony Blair (Michael Sheen) ... read more Posted on 08/08/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Better late then never
Elegy: An interview with director Isabel Coixet: Driven by Isabel Coixet’s visually assured and deeply observant direction, ELEGY charts the passionate relationship between a celebrated college professor and a young woman whose beauty both ravishes and destabilizes him. As their intimate connection transforms them—more than either could imagine—a charged ... read more Posted on 08/08/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Girl Interrupted
A Girl Cut in Two: An interview with actress Ludivine Sagnier: François Berléand stars as a jaded novelist and a too happily married "ladies man" whose latest conquest is TV weathergirl Gabrielle Deneige (Ludivine Sagnier). At once naïve and unstoppable, Gabrielle doesn't need to be convinced to enter into ... read more Posted on 08/08/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) Quick TakesPatti Smith: Dream of Life. Dir. Steven Sebring. 2008. 109min. Palm Pictures. If you don’t know who Patti Smith is (New York poet, punk-rock legend, friend to Robert Mapplethorpe, William Burroughs, Bob Dylan, and countless other cool cats), and you’ve never heard her raucous, iconic 1975 album “Horses,” then don’t ... read more Posted on 08/07/08 by: DGSmith Comments (0 ) 
Lives on the Line: "Frozen River," "Man on Wire," and "American Teen" in Review
Lives on the Line: "Frozen River," "Man on Wire," and "American Teen" in Review By Damon Smith We don’t need Norma Desmond to tell us that Hollywood isn’t kind to aging actresses. When an industry that prizes beauty above brains plants a virtual expiration tag on the rear end of ... read more Posted on 08/04/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Pineapple Express
Pineapple Express: An interview with director David Gordon Green: Lazy stoner Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver (James Franco); to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a ... read more Posted on 08/04/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Desperate times lead to desperate measures
Frozen River: An interview with actress Melissa Leo: With FROZEN RIVER, Melissa Leo shows us that sometimes a woman's got to do what a woman's got to do. In the film, Melissa Leo plays Ray Eddy, an upstate New York trailer mom who is lured into the world of illegal ... read more Posted on 08/04/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Bottle Shock and Awe
Bottle Shock: An interview with director Randall Miller: There are certain unforgettable moments in history when America has triumphed against long odds and proved itself to the world: Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon; the U.S. Men’s Hockey team beating the Soviet Union in the 1980 Olympics. But ... read more Posted on 08/04/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) 
Man on Wire
Man On Wire: An interview with director James Marsh Director James Marsh (The King) truly walks the line with his new documentary MAN ON WIRE. The film centers around August 7th 1974, the day a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between New ... read more Posted on 08/04/08 by: FCFeatures Comments (0 ) Lives on the Line: "Frozen River," "Man on Wire," and "American Teen" in Review
We don’t need Norma Desmond to tell us that Hollywood isn’t kind to aging actresses. When an industry that prizes beauty above brains plants a virtual expiration tag on the rear end of its female stars, and cigar-chomping movie producers proclaim a talent “over the hill” at age 30, who ... read more Posted on 08/01/08 by: DGSmith Comments (1 ) |
Let's Build a Fire on Reel 13 ShortsReview of Let's Build a Fire
Amazing that an experimental-type film actually managed to win the Reel 13 shorts contest this week (The other experimental film offered up by Reel 13 – Everyday – didn't fare so well – and rightly so). Some might suggest that LET'S BUILD A FIRE is a music video, but I ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) Half Nelson
Review of Half Nelson
Existence is suffering and a person who realize that real rule have to be lonely. and supposing drugs as medicine for that awareness and pain is completely an evidence for existence is a real sadistic occurrence. Posted on 12/02/08 by: delizade Comments (0 ) I want someone to come repossess my organs!Review of Repo: The Genetic Opera
Repo: The Genetic Opera is like the Rocky Horror Picture Show with a better soundtrack and all the gore of a Saw movie. I was pretty much squirming with delight from beginning to end. Paris Hilton represents. We are gonna be doing midnight showings of this movie for years to ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: CineSlut Comments (2 ) Guys and Dolls on Reel 13Review of Guys and Dolls
What many people don't know is that I started in musical theater before I got into filmmaking, so my familiarity with GUYS AND DOLLS, in all its incarnations, goes back a long way. (Fun fact: Did you know that Damon Runyan's character of Sky Masterson was actually based on famed ... read more Posted on 12/02/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) Things To Do on Reel 13Review of Things To Do
What is it about Reel 13's obsession with Canada? I can't seem to figure it out. It's a New York-based TV show – there are lots of New York films and New York filmmakers. Why do they insist on continually going north of the border for independent films? No comprendo. ... read more Posted on 11/21/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) The Bad and the Beautiful on Reel 13Review of The Bad and the Beautiful
Believe it or not, I had not seen this film before and therefore, it was probably my most anticipated Reel 13 film yet. After all, it's a film I supposed was right up my alley – behind the scenes of old Hollywood, it had some actors I was excited about ... read more Posted on 11/20/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) Manito on Reel 13Review of Manito
MANITO, the newest Reel 13 Indie about Puerto Rican brothers trying to escape their families' dark past and make ends meet in a mostly Hispanic neighborhood in Washington Heights, was extremely frustrating to watch – it's very dark (Was it timed down? Did the compression in the transfer crush the ... read more Posted on 11/20/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) Fetch on Reel 13Review of Fetch
I don’t have very much to say about FETCH, the first animated short to be aired by Reel 13 (all of this week’s contestants on reel13.org were animated, so it’s not as if the viewers made it so). It was fine. Cute, funny – the animation is very ... read more Posted on 11/20/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) Rebel Without a Cause on Reel 13Review of Rebel Without a Cause
Every once and a while, a movie comes around that defines a generation. EASY RIDER, ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN and THE BREAKFAST CLUB are all Examples. I would argue, however, that no film better defines the generation it came from than REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, which aired last night on ... read more Posted on 11/19/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) Wilby Wonderful on Reel 13Review of Wilby Wonderful
Reel 13's latest Indie hails from north of the border and features a cavalcade of present day Canadian stars (if there is such a thing), boasting the likes of Sandra Oh, Paul Gross, Maury Chaykin and the current it-girl Ellen Page (before she became super-cute). The film is a wannabe ... read more Posted on 11/19/08 by: eplromeo8 Comments (0 ) |
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