Fri, Sep 30, 2005, 12:00am
If anything new has happened to Hollywood in recent years, it's the rise of the biopic as the major studios' new favorite pet.
Fri, Sep 30, 2005, 12:00am
It is absolutely chilling to watch a movie made by someone so inspired by the Palestine-Israel conflict that gunfire, missile strikes, and the kidnapping of his location manager could not halt the production of his vision.
Fri, Sep 30, 2005, 12:00am
With this year's Palm D'Or-winning L'Enfant, the illustrious Belgian filmmakers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne have crafted an intermittently beguiling, but ultimately disappointing, work. At once both accessibly humane and stiflingly cold, L'Enfant plays like a mess of accidental paradoxes.
Fri, Sep 30, 2005, 12:00am
In two and a half hours, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu visits four hospitals, one ambulance, and one apartment in Bucharest, Romania.
Fri, Sep 30, 2005, 12:00am
With admirable intent but mixed results, George Clooney's second directorial effort tackles a semi-forgotten episode in American journalism.
Fri, Sep 30, 2005, 12:00am
Certainly, there are worse families than yours in the world, and certain films set out to prove it. Ira Sachs' new aesthetically challenged, and attention-span challenging film, Forty Shades of Blue, is successful at least in that respect.
Fri, Sep 30, 2005, 12:00am
Asking an accomplished jazz man what he makes of the music he plays has always generates interesting responses. Sidney Bechet said the word jazz did not even denote a kind of music, but rather a "way of playing." Miles Davis dismissed the question altogether, as did Bird Parker.
Fri, Sep 30, 2005, 12:00am
Success has come relatively quickly for the Hold Steady. The band has produced two great albums in two years, with a third already on the horizon. In addition, they have toured relentlessly, all while garnering increasingly rapturous reviews from the critics.
Fri, Sep 30, 2005, 12:00am
In their heyday in the '80s, one would have been hard-pressed to call Gang of Four pro-capitalist.
Fri, Sep 30, 2005, 12:00am
John Davis of Q and Not U is sitting outside the Knitting Factory after one of the band's last shows ever, and he's getting a little nostalgic.
