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'1962: New York Film Critics Circle' at BAMcinématek Sure, there were missiles in Cuba. But what about the film critics' awards?
"The past is never dead. It's not even past." So wrote William Faulkner, and so BAM's current series "1962: New York Film Critics Circle" hopes... More>>
Published: October 27, 2009
'Roger Corman: Poe and Beyond' at Anthology A schlock genius, king of the Bs and so much more
When Roger Corman receives his Honorary Oscar next month at the Academy's inaugural Governors Awards ceremony, will it be for his career as a... More>>
Published: October 27, 2009
Michael Jackson Documentary, Redux: This Is It King of pop, meet the man who made High School Musical
Less documentary than closely and manipulatively edited homage to the new-agey genius of frequent Michael Jackson collaborator and... More>>
Published: October 27, 2009
The House of the Devil Proficient, if not Psychologically Piercing
The Devil, apparently, lives in an out-of-the-way gingerbread Victorian, just past the cemetery, where college sophomore Samantha (Jocelin... More>>
Published: October 27, 2009
Jared Hess Channels Adolescence, Poo Jokes, for Gentlemen Broncos
Nothing if not consistent, Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre director Jared Hess once again presents adolescence as a depressive, outsider... More>>
Published: October 27, 2009
Skin Follows the Lunacy of Apartheid through Straight-Ahead Biopic
If ever there were a true-life tale that laid bare the laws of South African apartheid in all their arbitrary lunacy, it's the one dramatized in... More>>
Published: October 27, 2009
Labor Day, a Crappy Infomercial Partly Funded by Its Subject
I'd call Glenn Silber's Labor Day a well-intentioned but dull, video-ugly documentary if it weren't partly financed by its subject, the Service... More>>
Published: October 27, 2009
Storm Stiltedly Chews through Enduring Half-Life of Bosnian Conflict
Coinciding with the latest shenanigans from accused genocidal mastermind Radovan Karadzic, a quixotic International Criminal Courtroom drama... More>>
Published: October 27, 2009
The Inevitable Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
The Boondock Saints filmmaker Troy Duffy certainly makes for an easy target—at least his former friends thought so when they made the 2003... More>>
Published: October 27, 2009
Ben Gazzara, Guatemala Main Attractions of Looking for Palladin
Andrzej Krakowski pegs his water-treading labor-of-love indie to the always cool but here too blithe Ben Gazzara, playing a reclusive screen... More>>
Published: October 27, 2009
You Cannot Start Without Me Meets Valery Gergiev the Conductor, Not the Man
Beginning with its title—You Cannot Start Without Me—Allan Miller's portrait of Russian Maestro Valery Gergiev examines both the... More>>
Published: October 27, 2009
How to Seduce Difficult Women Woefully Incompetent
It is, perhaps, best not to expect too much from the directorial debut of Grace Kelly's ex-hairdresser; still, How to Seduce Difficult Women is... More>>
Published: October 27, 2009
Lars von Trier's Antichrist Puts Us Through the Wringer
Lars von Trier's doggedly outrageous, fearsomely ambitious two-hander is so desperate to make you feel something—if only a terrible... More>>
Published: October 20, 2009
Hong Sang-soo Gets in Touch with Inner Frenchman in Night and Day A Korean in Paris
'We can't easily tell night from day during the summers here," observes one character early on in Hong Sang-soo's Paris-set Night and Day—a... More>>
Published: October 20, 2009
Gena Rowlands as One Complicated Lady in A Woman Under the Influence
Although it'll be screening at MOMA right before Halloween, the holiday that most comes to mind when watching A Woman Under the Influence would... More>>
Published: October 20, 2009
The Wedding Song Probes Bond between Two Women
Like her appealing first feature, La petite Jérusalem, Karin Albou's The Wedding Song probes the threats to an intimate bond between two... More>>
Published: October 20, 2009
Peter Greenaway Is on Rembrandt's J'accuse
A one-man cinema vanguard and world-class VJ, the British media artist Peter Greenaway is also an unusual personality—at once... More>>
Published: October 20, 2009
Sátántangó Turns 15, MOMA Throws (Serious) Party
Sinking into the literal and spiritual bog of a fetid Hungarian backwater, Béla Tarr's 1994 Sátántangó is the essence... More>>
Published: October 20, 2009
Cirque du Freak Tries to Get in on the Trend. Fails. One vampire movie that really sucks
Like the ominous fingernail moon early on in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, the bloodsucker trend is again in a waxing phase thanks to... More>>
Published: October 20, 2009
Uma Thurman Does Kooky for Motherhood
Casting against type is one thing, but putting Uma Thurman—an unheralded character actress; the more extraordinary the character, the... More>>
Published: October 20, 2009
Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt With Nazis
For the dwindling number of Holocaust survivors who still remember him, and the thousands of young Jews and Israelis who don't, there's a lot... More>>
Published: October 20, 2009
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
The vampire trend continues, but the only authentic bloodsuckers in Cirque du Freak are its producers and studio execs. Drawn from the... More>>
Published: October 20, 2009
Acrobatic Antics and an Obliging Elephant in Ong Bak 2
You're not always entirely sure what is happening in Tony Jaa's new movie, but there certainly is a lot of it. In this sequel, in name only, the... More>>
Published: October 20, 2009
(Untitled) Aims Wide and Misses
A film only Hilton Kramer could love, (Untitled) aims wide and misses, its satire of the contemporary-art scene seemingly lifted from the... More>>
Published: October 20, 2009
B-Horror and Gay Porn in Eulogy for a Vampire
"I didn't know monks had boyfriends . . . or smoked," says one of the handsome young things in Eulogy for a Vampire. They do both in Patrick... More>>
Published: October 20, 2009
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