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FilmCatcher 5: Each week, one of our curators chooses five films we can’t stop obsessing about. ...
Multiplex: Quantum of SolaceDespite the pretentious (i.e. meaningless) title, the Bond franchise is alive and well in the hands of Finding Neverland helmer Marc Forster. Yeah, we know: Forster’s track record (Monster’s Ball, The Kite Runner) is not exactly a selling point to fans of Ian Fleming’s 007. Uber-masculine, purse-lipped badass Daniel Craig ... read morePosted on 09/22/2007 by FilmCatcher5 
Arthouse: A Christmas TaleSpeaking of Mathieu Amalric (see Quantum of Solace), he’s the dysfunctional dynamo at the heart of Arnaud Desplechin’s fabuloso family epic, playing the black sheep of a sprawling clan home (and squabbling) for the holidays. This is no ordinary Christmas picture, friends: it’s French. Think Renoir. Put yourself in the ... read morePosted on 09/22/2007 by FilmCatcher5 
DVD: CaligulaMidnight Cowboy, Last Tango in Paris, and Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song all got the dreaded X rating. But Caligula actually deserved it. You haven’t seen a Roman orgy until you’ve gawked at Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione’s sleazy ’70s toga fantasy, written by none other than Gore Vidal, perhaps as a ... read morePosted on 09/22/2007 by FilmCatcher5 
Online: ApotheosisJohn Lennon...filmmaker? Yes! Or to be more precise: “John & Yoko.” To be honest, we never knew the bespectacled Beatle and his artist-wife had ever committed anything to celluloid beyond those kooky Richard Lester musicals and some butts-on-a-treadmill film called “Bottoms” (one of Ono’s Fluxus-influenced 16mm projects). How wrong we ... read more Posted on 09/22/2007 by FilmCatcher5 
TV: This Is EnglandSundance Channel, 10pm EST, Wednesday, November 12. Oi oi oi! British wunderkind Shane Meadows is little known stateside, but his semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story will rock you right out of your Doc Martens. A picked-on scrunt (yep, we just made that one up: “scrappy runt”) whose pop is fighting in the ... read morePosted on 09/22/2007 by FilmCatcher5 |
