View image Ramin Bahrani on the set of "Chop Shop." Ramin Bahrani's first two features, "Man Push Cart" and "Chop Shop," live and breathe like few other films these days. (That's why they're two of my favorites of the current…
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Funny guy. (photo by Jason South) "Exclusive Video: Comedy Genius Robert De Niro Dazzles Us with Best Performance in Years." That was the headline at Defamer after De Niro's speech Monday night at the Film Society of Lincoln Center tribute…
Q: How would you compare Scorsese's "Shine a Light" to "No Direction Home," the brilliant documentary Scorsese made about Bob Dylan a couple years ago? I am a huge Dylan fan, never been a big Stones fan. Can I appreciate…
"Forgetting Sarah Marshall": Kristen Bell and Russell Brand. P to the V. Excerpt from an Apatowian appreciation I wrote for MSN Movies, covering "Freaks & Geeks" to "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" to "Knocked Up" and "Superbad" and "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" (with…
View image Hands up. I do believe the best single piece of film criticism that I've read in 2008 (and I've thought so ever since I read it two months ago) is David Bordwell's "Hands (and faces) across the table"…
View image Roger Ebert at the 2007 Toronto Film Festival. (photo by jim emerson) In the middle of the week, while I was away at the Conference on World Affairs so beloved by Roger Ebert, I got my first e-mail…
I lied. I wasn't able to post from the Conference on World Affairs. It was all too much. Now I have to sleep.
From Jake Cremins, New York, NY:
Recently we lost two American actors who embodied widely different styles, and their passing is a reminder that the very presence of an actor can suggest everything about a film.
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