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FilmCatcher 5: Each week, one of our curators chooses five films we can’t stop obsessing about. ...
Multiplex: TwilightFirst, it was a best-selling chick-lit novel for hormonal high schoolers. Now it’s a fang-bearing, big-screen romance for frenzied fans and those who love a good swoon. It’s only been in theaters a week, but we’re already ready to lay Twilight to rest—preferably with a wooden stake in its heart. ... read morePosted on 11/24/2008 by FilmCatcher5 
Arthouse: MilkGus Van Sant and Sean Penn. It’s the perfect marriage (to use a very loaded term these days) of an adventurous filmmaker who happens to be gay and an adventurous actor who happens to be a macho icon in the mold of James Dean. The story of Harvey Milk, the ... read morePosted on 11/24/2008 by FilmCatcher5 
DVD: The Spy Who Came in from the ColdThere are spy movies and then there are spy movies. Based on real-life MI6 agent John Le Carré’s celebrated novel, this was the original anti-Bond film (something we sorely need in our time of Solace) and the normally blustery Burton, here a figure of tragic, low-key resignation, was rarely better. ... read morePosted on 11/24/2008 by FilmCatcher5 
Online: The ProfessionalLuc Besson’s ultra-stylish French twist on genre (Subway, La Femme Nikita, The Fifth Element) earned him a reputation early on as a flashy purveyor of art-house thrillers and fashion-conscious fantasy. But for his first American film, Besson took an essentially ludicrous story idea, about a French-accented mob-world assassin (Jean Reno) ... read morePosted on 11/24/2008 by FilmCatcher5 
TV: West Side Story8pm, TCM, Wednesday: Is it the greatest musical ever made? Possibly. All we can tell you is that this punchy Bernstein-Sondheim urban fantasia about two star-crossed lovers (Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer) from rival white and Puerto Rican street crews dancing and swinging along the fire escapes and battered empty ... read morePosted on 11/24/2008 by FilmCatcher5 
Multiplex: BoltShamed by Pixar’s far superior CG animation and box-office hegemony, Walt Disney Studios gobbled up the pacesetting animavericks back in 2006. Now they’re rolling out an old grindhouse format for their latest lost-puppy odyssey: 3-D. Far out! Too bad the talking animals look like they’re grimacing from Bell’s palsy. (Did ... read morePosted on 11/12/2008 by FilmCatcher5 
Arthouse: The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)While many DPs labor in obscurity, cinematographer extraordinaire Ellen Kuras, whose credits include Summer of Sam, Neil Young: Heart of Gold, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, is a bona fide star lenser, having worked with a who’s who of top indie-film talent. Anyone who needs convincing of her ... read morePosted on 11/12/2008 by FilmCatcher5 
DVD: The Complete Monty Pythons Flying CircusThe circus is in town! Witty, irreverent, bawdy, and side-splittingly funny, the Pythons (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin) were an anarchic bunch of nutters who, beginning with a 1969 sketch-comedy TV program, married droll, sacred-cow-spearing humor to an absurdist, stream-of-consciousness presentational style, often courtesy of ... read morePosted on 11/12/2008 by FilmCatcher5 
Online: After LifeIn the perfect afterlife, we’d all be making movies. That’s the idea behind Hirokazu Kore-eda’s gentle, melancholic drama, about a purgatorial facility where the newly deceased are asked to select one memory from their life—a moment they wouldn’t mind reliving forever—and then recreate it on a soundstage for the cameras. ... read morePosted on 11/12/2008 by FilmCatcher5 
TV: End of the CenturyThe Story of the Ramones: 4:15pm, Wednesday, November 19, TMCe: Thank God we didn’t have to wait until the end of the next century for this story-of doc on the Queens-bred Blitzkrieg Boppers. Loud, leather-jacketed teens who played lightning-speed three-chord rock and helped put CBGB’s, New York’s punk-rock equivalent of ... read morePosted on 11/12/2008 by FilmCatcher5 |
