Summer Guide To Film

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Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Downtown Film Forum This West Village hub of art house cinema continues its quest to promote new indie and underground releases, as well as a wide array of repertory selections. It remains the only autonomous nonprofit cinema in New York City. Selections this summer will include a tribute to silent film maestro Erich von Stroheim,
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Armond White: Political Pollutant

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Polarizing Comedy Exposed in The Dictator Lazily titled after Chaplin’s 1940 Hitler-Mussolini satire The Great Dictator, Sacha Baron Cohen‘s new film The Dictator is part of our current political slackness where propaganda is confused with news, parody is confused with satire, principle is confused with bias and mob-mentality is confused with democracy. Cohen mocks an
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Little Sheba Comes Back

Written by Armond White on . Posted in Arts & Film, Film, West Side Spirit

‘Darling Companion’s fetching marriages The bucolic look of Lawrence Kasdan’s Darling Companion is an indication of its fine sensibility. Kasdan evokes the natural, wooded landscape of Alfred Hitchcock’s idiosyncratic comedy The Trouble with Harry. The colors here are not autumnal nor quite as vibrant, yet Kasdan affects a similar tone of respite. His three harried
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Armond White: Bouquet of Eccentrics

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Whit Stillman’s Damsels in the Clouds “I like my characters to walk in clouds,” said the great comedy director Leo McCarey. “I like a little bit of the fairy tale.” That confession well describes the McCarey classics that execute a precarious balance between realism and fantasy—The Awful Truth, Make Way for Tomorrow, Love Affair, The
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Weinstein’s to MPAA: Bully doc to be bullied no more

Written by Andrew Rice on . Posted in Arts & Film, Breaking News, Film, Miscellaneous

Bully_poster Documentary Bully is hitting theaters unrated after repeated attempts by the film’s distributor The Weinstein Company (TWC) to lower the film’s rating to PG-13, which was given an R rating by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) . Picked up by TWC at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, the film focuses on the effects
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Class Clowns and Cop Clowns: Jump Street Reboot is Junk

Written by Armond White on . Posted in Arts & Film, Arts our town, Film, On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column, Opinion Our Town, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

21jump “You shot him in the dick! I’ve never seen that!” Channing Tatum exclaims as Jenks, a rookie cop partnered with the doughy, uncool Schmidt (Jonah Hill) in 21 Jump Street. The duo have not outgrown their adolescent rivalry or immature sense of amusement that began in high school. Seven years later (after a police academy training session ridiculously scored to The Clash’s version of Junior Murvin’s reggae classic “Police
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Audrey Tautou Shines in Delicacy

Written by Doug Strassler on . Posted in Arts & Film, Arts our town, Arts our town downtown, Arts west side spirit, Film, NY Press Exclusive

Delicacy, the title of the new French film David Foenkinos adapted from his own best-seller, could easily refer to the dance that the movie does between heartbreak and humor. Audrey Tautou (Amelie) is Nathalie, a young woman who we see meet and marry her husband in a dream-like state. Embarking on a new career and
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Occupied Comedy: Marino waxes, Rudd wanes in ‘Wanderlust’

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Wanderlust starts with an idea borrowed from Albert Brooks’ 1986 Lost in America—a yuppie couple responds to career setbacks by embarking on a cross-country journey that tests their mettle. Here, George (Paul Rudd) and Linda (Jennifer Aniston) leave their tiny, expensive Manhattan studio apartment and fall in among a collective of retrograde slackers in an
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Truth of the Matter

Written by Jennifer Merin on . Posted in Film

Gore heats up global warming issue on-screen An Inconvenient Truth Directed by David Guggenheim   Predictions of impending hurricanes along the eastern seaboard come as no surprise to An Inconvenient Truth director David Guggenheim, nor for that matter, to the film’s principal protagonist, Al Gore, whose current mission is to inform the public about the
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An Interview With Ric Burns

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“New York Historical Society, a Celebration” airs on PBS. Wednesday, November 23,2005 Emmy Award–winner Ric Burns’ latest is his homage to the Society, where behind the beautiful-but-almost-blank neo-classical exterior exist paintings, photographs, maps, manuscripts, diaries and objects. As a kid, Martin Scorsese wandered uptown from Little Italy and discovered the archive, which became a lifelong
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