William Shatner Interview; A Phony Critic’s Controversy

Written by George Tabb on . Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Captain Fantastic Free Enterprise is a new film directed by Robert Meyer Burnett, and it’s playing at the Art Greenwich starting Aug. 6. The film is a sort of coming-of-age story about a couple of Trekkies and their misadventures with wine, women and more women. The movie features Eric McCormack, who also stars in a television show called Will
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Runaway Bride

Written by Matt Zoller Seitz on . Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Running on Empty Julia Roberts now chooses material that seems designed to play off her public image, and that’s not a bad thing. It shows she’s done some serious thinking about her image and wants to play around with it; she’s turning into the movie star equivalent of Madonna, in that every new project is both a stand-alone piece of
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Jack Valenti’s Ass

Written by Armond White on . Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

This catastrophe was confirmed by last week’s letter from a majority of the New York Film Critics Circle to Warner Bros. about the Motion Picture Association of America (the organization that administers movie ratings) requiring that Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut be altered to qualify for an R rating. The letter charged the ratings board had “become a punitive and
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Part Two of The Death of Film/The Decay of Cinema

Written by Godfrey Cheshire on . Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Part Two of The Death of Film/The Decay of Cinema Sometime within the next few years–it may take a decade or more, though a nearer date is more likely–the last commercial movie theater in the U.S. to adopt digital projection will make the switch, and the medium of film will reach its effective end. Thereafter, to see actual films displayed,
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The Wood Reclaims Black Youth Culture

Written by Armond White on . Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Turn Back The Hands of Hiphop Vinyl records are used as souvenirs of childhood in The Wood, linking memories of growing up in the 1980s to contemporary trials of friendship faced by three responsible young men. Reading the record label logos as they spin on a turntable is enough to make those artifacts numinous, to recall the time of
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Towers of Techno-Babble

Written by Jonathan Kalb on . Posted in Posts, Theater

through Aug. 1 at the Signature Theater, 555 W. 42nd St. (betw. 10th & 11th Aves.), 244-PLAY. Towers of Techno-Babble  The theater has a troubled relationship to new technology. Not that most of its practitioners are particularly conservative—quite the contrary—but there is an abiding conservatism in the form itself. The technical advances theaters have incorporated over the centuries, such as
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Twin Falls Idaho Disappoints

Written by Matt Zoller Seitz on . Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Siamese Dream For a while, the quirky independent film Twin Falls Idaho is mesmerizing despite the fact that not much is going on, and a lot of the movie’s power comes from the simple image of the two heroes’ faces side by side, whispering in consultation while wearing chocolate-gray hipster suits. It’s a stark, poetic image, and not just because
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Eyes Wide Shut’s Images

Written by Godfrey Cheshire on . Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

The Photographer’s Final Frames Every Stanley Kubrick movie came down to an image, or a set of them, searching for two things: its own meaning and an appropriate dramatic elaboration. The fact that both searches were, in any given film, seldom entirely successful has not diminished the power of his work; in fact, it has bolstered it, especially for those
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Blair Witch’s Corruption

Written by Armond White on . Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

A Cinematic Wedgie “Kill it before it grows!” Bob Marley sang. I’m cringing at the puerile celebration of The Blair Witch Project. This home video by the Florida-based team Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez is the worst of this year’s movie offenses so far. Calling it a “movie” is a bothersome technicality (it’s been transferred to celluloid and is being
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