New York Times critic Manohla Dargis saw the Roman Polanski doc when it briefly appeared in a few theaters in New York and Los Angeles in order to qualify for the Oscars. Dargis writes: “Wanted and Desired,” which opened on Friday without advance press screenings, was bought by HBO at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Its one-week theatrical run will...
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Via Salon.com’s Broadsheet, comes this essay in the NYTimes, It‚Äôs Not You, It‚Äôs Your Books, exploring the phenomenon of relationship-killing incompatibility standards based on personal reading habits: “when a missed ‚Äî or misguided ‚Äî literary reference makes it chillingly clear that a romance is going nowhere fast.” When it comes...
April 5 will be the 100th birthday of Bette Davis. There will be tributes and retrospectives and dozens of memorial essays. Terrence Rafferty excels at elegantly distilling an actor’s persona to its essence, as he does in this New York Times remembrance. …on the occasion of her centennial, it‚Äôs worth remembering Davis as she was in her prime, in the...
One of the most impressive and potentially world-changing aspects of the internet is the chance it offers for individuals to make their voices heard above the drone of the mainstream. It’s the underground press of our time. The print won’t rub off on your fingers, but with any luck maybe some of the best thoughts will rub off on our attitudes. Here’s...
News flash: Audiences flock to see worst-rated movies. Mediocrity vindicated. Rank Title Gross Metacritic Per Screen 1 21 $23,700,000 48 $8,950 2 Horton Hears a Who! $17,425,000 71 $4,554 3 Superhero Movie $9,510,000 33 $3,212 4 Meet the Browns $7,760,000 45 $3,849 5 Drillbit Taylor $5,800,000 41 $1,894 6 Shutter $5,325,000 37 $1,932 7 10,000...