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Movie and TV reviews and interviews

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Bonding with Aza Jacobs over Hallucinogens and More

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Best known in arty zip codes in New York and LA, Azazel Jacobs is by far the most mainstream member of a staunchly unconven...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Muhammad Ali, The Long-Lost Movie

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This Friday evening at Anthology Film Archives, Anton Perich presents, for the first time, a compilation of video footage of Muh...
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Monday, June 27, 2011

Some Like It Hot

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If the aliens who inherit Earth ever need proof that Marilyn Monroe was magic, all they’ll need to do is watch Some Like It Hot...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

The Trip

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“It’s really exhausting, keeping all of this going all the time, isn’t it?” the actor playing Steve Coogan’s father asks Rob Br...
Friday, June 17, 2011

Human Rights Watch International Film Festival 2011: Life, Above All, Diary, and When Mountains Tremble

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Moving pictures can do so many things so well. They teach us empathy for other perspectives. They invent new worlds or sh...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Bringing Up Baby

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“In moments of quiet I’m strangely drawn to you, but, well, there haven’t been any quiet moments,” David (Cary Grant) tells Sus...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

The Tree of Life

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The winner of this year’s main prize at Cannes and the subject of millions of pixels’ worth of online debate, Terrence Mali...
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Thursday, June 9, 2011

Barely Legal Film Festival

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A lot of young talent, some raw and some very well done indeed, will be on display this weekend when the Trenton Film Society screens this y...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Bridesmaids

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After going back and forth for weeks about whether to see Bridesmaids , I’m kicking myself for having avoided it so long. You...
Friday, May 27, 2011

Restless City

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Living in New York is like going online: When you know you can find a world-class example of whatever or whoever you long for...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

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Werner Herzog dates his fascination with Paleolithic cave paintings to age 12, when his imagination was captured by a book about...
Monday, May 16, 2011

The Princess of Montpensier

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The Princess of Montpensier begins in the midst of a gripping hand-to-hand combat in 16th century France, as a count and a ha...
Friday, May 6, 2011

Moms from Hell: Mildred Pierce and Jeanne Dielman

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If you thought Todd Haynes's Mildred Pierce was too slow-moving and uneventful (and God knows a lot of people did), Chantal...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Meek's Cutoff

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Stephen Meek (Bruce Greenwood) looks like the kind of character you’d expect to see starring in a classic Western. The colorful g...
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Most of these pieces first appeared either in Brooklyn Magazine or its now defunct sister publication, The L magazine, or in Slant Magazine or its blog, The House Next Door. Here's what I've written for Slant and THND.
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