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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 ...
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 morePosted on 08/21/2008 by DGSmith 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 morePosted on 08/18/2008 by DGSmith 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 morePosted on 08/14/2008 by DGSmith 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 morePosted on 08/07/2008 by DGSmith Lives on the Line: "Frozen River," "Man on Wire," and "American Teen" in ReviewWe 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 08/01/2008 by DGSmith |
