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Damon Smith is a New York-based film journalist. He has written features, profiles, and reviews for The Boston Globe, Time Out New York, Filmmaker magazine, Senses of Cinema ...
Megaplex: Bangkok DangerousThai stick for the masses, Pang Bros–style. Nicolas Cage toggles between zany work with the likes of the Coen brothers and Charlie Kaufman and corny tough-guy heroics a la “Con Air” and “World Trade Center.” Here, he teams up with Hong Kong–raised auteurs Danny and Oxide Pang (“The Eye”) to ... read morePosted on 08/01/2007 by DGSmith Arthouse: Mister FoeJamie Bell, is it? Now there’s a good lad. When it comes to quirk, we’ll take the bittersweet Scottish variety, thank you very much. Bell, an English bloke best known as the titular protagonist of “Billy Elliott,” here inhabits the pasty skin of a wealthy 17-year-old in Edinburgh who retreats ... read morePosted on 08/01/2007 by DGSmith Online: Rose HobartToo avant even for Dalí, Joseph Cornell’s 1936 found-footage masterpiece is now as curiously quaint as one of the collagist’s famous boxes, which you’ll find in any major museum of modern art. “Experimental film” does not have to be synonymous with “boring, pretentious bullshit,” as this admirable staple of early ... read morePosted on 08/01/2007 by DGSmith DVD: Boomerang!Oh dear me, who killed poor Father Dahme? Dana “The Mask” Andrews investigates in this docu-realistic noir based on an actual 1924 case, in which a penniless drifter was nailed for the notorious shooting on a quiet Connecticut street. Future HUAC testifier Elia Kazan was a successful theatrical director throughout ... read morePosted on 08/01/2007 by DGSmith TV: Hush ... Hush, Sweet CharlotteWatch Bette Davis lose her freakin’ mind in Robert Aldrich’s bizarro Southern Gothic melodrama, also starring Olivia De Havilland and Joseph Cotten. The plot involves murder, suicide, and a heaping dose of mint juleps–infused madness, but that’s all beside the point. The fun comes from watching Davis’s increasingly neurotic, unhinged ... read morePosted on 08/01/2007 by DGSmith |
