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Movie Review | 'Trumbo': When an Eloquent Voice Was Stilled in Hollywood
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 11:20pm EDT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Peter Askin’s stirring documentary “Trumbo” gives you reasons to cheer but also to weep.
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Critic’s Choice: New DVDs: ‘Mishima’ and ‘Framed’
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 10:41pm EDT by By DAVE KEHR
New this week are the handsome, superbly restored edition of Paul Shrader’s 1985 film “Mishima” and the 1975 film “Framed,” one of the last old-school film noirs.
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Hazy Halcyon Days of Pot and Puberty
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 2:53pm EDT by By CHARLES McGRATH
With “The Wackness,” Jonathan Levine evokes high school in Manhattan in the early 1990s.
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Film: A Girl’s Life
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 2:07am EDT by By A. O. SCOTT
An empire of American Girl dolls, books and now films has varied messages for its devoted following.
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Movie Review | 'Thoda Pyaar, Thoda Magic': An Angel Rides in to Preserve a Family (and India)
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:34am EDT by By RACHEL SALTZ
“Thoda Pyaar, Thoda Magic” (“A Little Love, a Little Magic”) has a buoyancy and optimism that trump the predictability of its story.
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Movie Review | ‘Wall-E’: In a World Left Silent, One Heart Beeps
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 12:30am EDT by By A. O. SCOTT
“Wall-E” breaks new ground in giving us a G-rated, computer-generated cartoon vision of our own potential extinction.
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Film: Free to Follow His Heart Right Back to ‘Star Wars’
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 8:07pm EDT by By DAVE ITZKOFF
George Lucas is revisiting his signature franchise once again. Then, maybe, at last, a small movie?
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Film: Fear and Loathing on a Documentary Screen
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 1:54pm EDT by By DAVID CARR
Hunter S. Thompson, who has been lionized in two feature films and is the subject of enough doctoral dissertations to build a bonfire, now has a documentary devoted to him.
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Movie Review | 'The Last Mistress': The Sex and the Fury, French Aristocracy Style
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 1:43pm EDT by By MANOHLA DARGIS
In “The Last Mistress,” the director Catherine Breillat’s explorations of desire are so far from the antiseptic world of most screen depictions as to seem far out.
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Movie Review | 'Wanted': You Talkin’ to Me, Boys? (Bang-Bang, My Pretties)
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 1:41pm EDT by By MANOHLA DARGIS
“Wanted” shows life in the killing lane with lots of zippy effects, action and exploding heads.
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Movie Review | 'Wicked Lake': Cannibal Witches on the Prowl
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 9:17am EDT by By LAURA KERN
It’s not the water that menaces in “Wicked Lake,” an inept, nasty and absolutely irredeemable entry in the stale torture-porn subgenre of horror.
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Movie Review | 'Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World': A Whirling, Digitized Ride on a Small Celluloid Raft
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 9:13am EDT by By NATHAN LEE
An eye-popper and brain-boggler, “Razzle Dazzle” is also, remarkably, a thing to stir the soul.
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Movie Review | 'Finding Amanda': A Gambler Goes to Sin City in Search of Atonement
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 2:20am EDT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Set mostly in Las Vegas, “Finding Amanda” offers a vision of confused Americans losing their already shaky bearings in the world’s gaudiest honky-tonk.
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Movie Review | 'Red Roses and Petrol': One Gloomy Family
Posted: June 26th, 2008, 7:19pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
In “Red Roses and Petrol,” a soused, post-funeral postmortem on a dysfunctional Dublin family, the misery seeps from the screen in cold, damp waves.
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Movie Review | 'Elsa & Fred': Marching Noisily Toward Late Middle Age
Posted: June 26th, 2008, 7:14pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
“Elsa & Fred” is both a movie about love and a love letter to movies.
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Movie Review | 'All in This Tea': Dipping Into Many Modes
Posted: June 26th, 2008, 7:05pm EDT by By NATHAN LEE
“All in This Tea” is a delicious documentary about a beverage.
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Movie Review | 'Gunnin’ for That #1 Spot': For Love of the Game
Posted: June 26th, 2008, 6:58pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
“Gunnin’ for That #1 Spot” is an on-the-fly record of a memorable moment in basketball history.
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Movie Review | 'Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine': Portrait of a Haunted Artist Who Befriended Giant Spiders
Posted: June 25th, 2008, 11:23am EDT by By NATHAN LEE
This uncommonly elegant and evocative portrait of Louise Bourgeois reveals much about the haunting and haunted master while leaving intact the thing you cannot explain.
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In a Box Office Battle, a Spy Beats a Guru
Posted: June 24th, 2008, 11:34pm EDT by By MICHAEL CIEPLY
In a comedy slugfest at the weekend movie box office, Steve Carell and “Get Smart” knocked out Mike Myers and “The Love Guru.”
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Movie Review | 'Full Grown Men': He’ll Hold His Breath Until You Call Him a Man
Posted: June 24th, 2008, 11:24pm EDT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN
The candy-colored “Full Grown Men” wants to be a kind of anti-“Wizard of Oz” for a culture inundated with toys and toons.
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An Appraisal: A Master of Words, Including Some You Can’t Use in a Headline
Posted: June 24th, 2008, 4:03pm EDT by By CHARLES McGRATH
George Carlin, who died on Sunday at 71, had a gift for saying — and thinking — things that other people wouldn’t or couldn’t.
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Critic’s Choice: New DVDs: ‘The Furies’ and ‘Solo Sunny’
Posted: June 24th, 2008, 1:01am EDT by By DAVE KEHR
New this week are the 1950 Freudian western “The Furies” and Konrad Wolf’s 1980 film “Solo Sunny,” from former East Germany.
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Dan Brown Tourists: Next Stop, Rome?
Posted: June 24th, 2008, 12:53am EDT by By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
Will the film version of Dan Brown’s novel “Angels and Demons” help relaunch American tourism in Rome?
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Comics Convention Beckons Hollywood
Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 7:04pm EDT by By MICHAEL CIEPLY
Rumbling into its 39th year, the loose-jointed Comic-Con fan gathering has become the single most important promotional stop on Hollywood’s festival circuit.
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Bollywood Goes to Hollywood, Seeking Bargains
Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 10:19am EDT by By HEATHER TIMMONS
Reliance Entertainment, part of an Indian conglomerate, is in talks to finance Steven Spielberg and David Geffen in a new venture.
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Arts, Briefly: ‘The Misfits’ on Block
Posted: June 22nd, 2008, 10:35pm EDT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
A film of Marilyn Monroe on the set of “The Misfits,” her last completed movie, brought $60,000 at an auction of cinema memorabilia.
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Scene Stealer: When the Comedy Is Lost in Translation
Posted: June 22nd, 2008, 5:38am EDT by By MICHAEL CIEPLY
Many more uniquely domestic comedies are not performing as well as other American movies abroad, posing a problem for Hollywood, which depends on foreign markets for roughly half of its total revenue.
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Film: Low-Cost Film With Friends in High Places
Posted: June 22nd, 2008, 1:03am EDT by By JOHN ANDERSON
A first-time director and an A-list cast collaborate on a the small film “Expired,” that might, miraculously, be seen.
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A Night Out With | Abigail Breslin: She Is What She Eats
Posted: June 20th, 2008, 11:48pm EDT by By MELENA RYZIK
Hanging out with Abigail Breslin, who is starring in “Kit Kittredge: An American Girl,” a movie based on American Girl dolls.
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Film: Soft-Core Auteur Turns Attention to Radicals
Posted: June 20th, 2008, 4:02pm EDT by By DENNIS LIM
At 72, Koji Wakamatsu has made his most ambitious work, “United Red Army,” a look at the collapse of the Japanese militant student groups of the 1960s and ’70s.
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Film: Pixar Gambles on a Robot in Love
Posted: June 20th, 2008, 1:38pm EDT by By KATRINA ONSTAD
Pixar may have outdone itself in the weird-premises department with “Wall-E,” a $180 million post-apocalyptic, near-silent robot love story.
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Jean Delannoy, Filmmaker, Dies at 100
Posted: June 20th, 2008, 2:27am EDT by By ANITA GATES
Mr. Delannoy was a French director of lavish dramas whose career suffered after he was publicly reviled by proponents of the New Wave as the ultimate anti-auteur.
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Arts, Briefly: Oscar Rule Changes
Posted: June 20th, 2008, 12:54am EDT by Compiled by MIKE HALE
Beginning with next year’s Academy Awards, films will be limited to no more than two nominations each in the category of original song.
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An Appraisal: Sylph or Siren, the Legs Have It
Posted: June 20th, 2008, 12:42am EDT by By MANOHLA DARGIS
Cyd Charisse’s legs could send viewers into raptures, and after watching “Singin’ in the Rain” again, it’s easy to see why.
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Movie Review | 'Get Smart': More Deadpan but Still a Bumbler
Posted: June 20th, 2008, 12:38am EDT by By MANOHLA DARGIS
“Get Smart” is made up of feeble and funny jokes, brand actors and enough special effects to give you some bang for your summertime buck.
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Movie Review | 'Brick Lane': A Prisoner of Normalcy Finds Ways to Escape
Posted: June 20th, 2008, 12:33am EDT by By A. O. SCOTT
At the center of “Brick Lane,” a modest film directed by Sarah Gavron, is a woman for whom modesty is not just a defining character trait but also a moral principle.
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Movie Review | 'Expired': Trying to Find True Love Before the Meter Runs Out
Posted: June 19th, 2008, 11:57pm EDT by By MANOHLA DARGIS
The funny, sad, offbeat, sometimes off-the-beat romance “Expired” is one of those precariously balanced movies that might fall to pieces with a different cast.
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Movie Review | 'The Love Guru': Just Say ‘Mariska Hargitay’ and Snicker
Posted: June 19th, 2008, 11:55pm EDT by By A. O. SCOTT
“The Love Guru” is downright antifunny, an experience that makes you wonder if you will ever laugh again.
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Movie Review | 'Kit Kittredge: An American Girl': Wholesome Life Lessons for Budding Reporter
Posted: June 19th, 2008, 11:51pm EDT by By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
“Kit Kittredge: An American Girl” appears poised to incite the kind of box-office frenzy more commonly associated with characters named Hannah and Harry.
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‘Sex and the City’ Leads Weekend Box Office
Posted: June 17th, 2008, 11:45am EDT by By MICHAEL CIEPLY and BILL CARTER
The film has earned an estimated $55.7 million since Thursday, making it an unconventional summer hit.
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‘Sex and the City’ Leads Weekend Box Office
Posted: June 17th, 2008, 10:45am EDT by By MICHAEL CIEPLY and BILL CARTER
The film has earned an estimated $55.7 million since Thursday, making it an unconventional summer hit.
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Movie Review | 'The Happening': Something Lethal Lurks in the Rustling Trees
Posted: June 12th, 2008, 11:47pm EDT by By MANOHLA DARGIS
“The Happening” is a divertingly goofy thriller with an animistic bent, moments of shivery and twitchy suspense and a solid lead performance from Mark Wahlberg.
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Movie Review | 'The Incredible Hulk': Caution: Contents Turn Angry When Shaken
Posted: June 12th, 2008, 11:45pm EDT by By A. O. SCOTT
The new movie about Dr. Bruce Banner is called “The Incredible Hulk.” But let’s not get carried away: “The Adequate Hulk” would have been a more suitable title.
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Movie Review | 'My Winnipeg': Permafrost Makes the Heart Grow Stranger in a Haunted Snow Globe
Posted: June 12th, 2008, 11:04pm EDT by By A. O. SCOTT
“My Winnipeg,” which combines archival documentary images with freshly shot passages, is more concerned with lyrical truth than with literal accuracy.
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Film: Beauty, Brutality and Three Tough Mothers
Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 6:02pm EDT by By TERRENCE RAFFERTY
Dario Argento’s latest danse macabre, “Mother of Tears,” starring his daughter Asia, is his usual blend of beauty and brutality.
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Fashion Review: 10 Years Later, Carrie Coordinated
Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 2:53pm EDT by By ERIC WILSON
Fashion has been a regular character defining trait throughout the “Sex and the City” series, and in the film version, the fashion is jaw-droppingly fantastic.
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Fashion Review: 10 Years Later, Carrie Coordinated
Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 1:53pm EDT by By ERIC WILSON
Fashion has been a regular character defining trait throughout the “Sex and the City” series, and in the film version, the fashion is jaw-droppingly fantastic.
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Fire Destroys Parts of a Popular Movie Lot in California
Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 4:13am EDT by By MICHAEL CIEPLY
A fire at NBC Universal’s studio lot in Universal City, Calif., destroyed a vault full of movie and television images and parts of the popular studio tour. At least six firefighters were injured.
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Fire Destroys Parts of a Popular Movie Lot in California
Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 3:13am EDT by By MICHAEL CIEPLY
A fire at NBC Universal’s studio lot in Universal City, Calif., destroyed a vault full of movie and television images and parts of the popular studio tour. At least six firefighters were injured.
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The Media Equation: Slumber Parties Go Digital
Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 1:23am EDT by By DAVID CARR
In the gender wars, men generally win the race to the bottom. This past week though, women were the ones who seemed completely preoccupied by the reproductive act.
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Financier in Hollywood Strikes Deal in D.W.I.
Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 1:04am EDT by By MICHAEL CIEPLY
Ryan Kavanaugh pleaded no contest to, and was convicted of, one count of driving under the influence of alcohol, while more serious charges were dropped.
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The Media Equation: Slumber Parties Go Digital
Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 12:23am EDT by By DAVID CARR
In the gender wars, men generally win the race to the bottom. This past week though, women were the ones who seemed completely preoccupied by the reproductive act.
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Financier in Hollywood Strikes Deal in D.W.I.
Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 12:04am EDT by By MICHAEL CIEPLY
Ryan Kavanaugh pleaded no contest to, and was convicted of, one count of driving under the influence of alcohol, while more serious charges were dropped.
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Disney and Pixar: The Power of the Prenup
Posted: June 1st, 2008, 1:57am EDT by By BROOKS BARNES
Two years in, the merger of Disney and Pixar is notable for how well the two companies have made it work.
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Disney and Pixar: The Power of the Prenup
Posted: June 1st, 2008, 12:57am EDT by By BROOKS BARNES
Two years in, the merger of Disney and Pixar is notable for how well the two companies have made it work.
