PROVING MOVIE STARS STILL MATTER

Written by admin on April 2, 2009. Posted in Arts & Film, Film

Sometimes movie stars matter. After Julia Roberts’ weak display of industry dominance in Duplicity, the power of movie stars has never seemed more questionable. But Vin Diesel and Paul Walker both get spectacular entrances in Fast & Furious (the kind people only fantasized De Niro and Pacino had in Heat) while audiences cheer their tough
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SUGAR

Written by admin on April 2, 2009. Posted in Arts & Film, Film

As the mainstreams media crucifies Yankee outfielder Alex Rodriguez, indie filmmakers Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden’s new film Sugar takes a sympathetic look at the life of a fictional baseball prodigy from the Dominican Republic—and crucifies him with kindness. Miguel “Sugar” Santos (played by Algenis Perez Soto) leaves his impoverished home to work his way
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ADVENTURELAND

Written by admin on March 26, 2009. Posted in Arts & Film, Film

In Adventureland, college grad James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg) works a Pennsylvania amusement park summer job to raise money for graduate school. It’s 1987 and Brennan listens to Lou Reed and The Replacements, reads Quiet Days in Clichy and can’t repress his intellectual ambitions when he’s stoned. Yet, he’s likeably callow—exactly opposite of the obnoxious brat
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GUEST OF CINDY SHERMAN

Written by admin on March 26, 2009. Posted in Arts & Film, Film

Guest of Cindy Sherman lost its coterie fascination as soon as the 1975 Hearts and Minds (both are showing at Cinema Village) was revived. An art-world hanger-on’s moping about his bad match with a famous girlfriend—though candid, revealing and with justified self-pity—shriveled next to the historic anti-Vietnam War screed. It makes for a revealing contrast:
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HUNGER

Written by admin on March 19, 2009. Posted in Arts & Film, Film

Hunger, the first film by British fine artist Steve McQueen, plays with Christ-like imagery without Christianity. That probably accounts for the film’s enormous praise from today’s secular movie mob (it’s been a festival-circuit hit). The story of Irish Republican Army martyr Bobby Sands (played by Michael Fassbender), who died in Northern Ireland’s Maze prison after
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DUPLICITY

Written by admin on March 19, 2009. Posted in Arts & Film, Film

Funny how crusading liberal movie stars love to play crooks—such as Julia Roberts’ role as Claire Stenwick, a double-dealing CIA agent in Duplicity. Like George Clooney, Denzel Washington, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon, Roberts doesn’t seem to realize her own duplicity in selling the romance of greed. Duplicity takes movie-star hypocrisy even further: Claire competes
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Z

Written by admin on March 12, 2009. Posted in Arts & Film, Film

When Costa-Gavras’ Z opened 40 years ago it was a sensation. There wasn’t another movie with such pop and political excitement until Do the Right Thing in 1989—and nothing comparable since. Back in 1969, a foreign-language film became a hit in America because people felt it—as they had with La Dolce Vita, Never on Sunday,
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PARTLY CLOUDY

Written by admin on March 12, 2009. Posted in Arts & Film, Film

Despite the claims of clever marketing tactics, Sunshine Cleaning bears no resemblance to the 2006 indie Sundance hit Little Miss Sunshine. While the studio had hoped to garner as much success as their quirky “sunshine” predecessor (even by bringing on the same producers), this new feature tries too hard to mold itself into an indie
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DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

Written by admin on March 6, 2009. Posted in Arts & Film, Film

The invasion of the Fannings continues with Elle Fanning’s star turn in Phoebe in Wonderland. And, being a Fanning, her role isn’t quite the oddball schoolgirl that Phoebe at first appears to be, which is writer-director Daniel Barnz’s biggest misstep. Despite finding refuge in a school production of Alice in Wonderland, led by the seriously
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WATCHMEN

Written by admin on March 6, 2009. Posted in Arts & Film, Film

Movie versions of The Great Gatsby and Beloved opened with fewer expectations than Watchmen. Maybe that’s because less was at stake in film versions of conventional literary classics. Now, with Hollywood’s adaptation of Alan Moore’s 1986 graphic novel, the future of pop culture hangs in the balance: Post-literary hipster culture meets post-cinematic movie culture to
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