Entertainment News - MovieWeb.com (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
The Hurt Locker and Big Fan both lead the pack with three nominations apiece.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Okay, so I think we all have something we can now say about ill-advised wars. France, though, learned its lesson fifty years ago. A lot...
The Hamlet Weblog (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
New York Magazine interviews Julia Stiles , Ophelia in the Michael Almereyda film with Ethan Hawke . I'd always assumed that her colonisation of the Shakespearean teen films was by design. Seems not: "The actress has gotten flack for protesting too much, for seeming to imply she’s too good for her fans or her early roles. It’s true that her career-making films had loftier aspirations...
Watch Us Explode! (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
No, I’m not anticipating a date with the Chewy one at some warped time in the very near future. Although… Sorry, where was I…? Oh yeah, I stumbled across information about a film currently in post-production which looks like it’s right up my street. Tonight at Noon stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ethan Hawke, Rutger Hauer, Connie Nielsen and [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
A TV writer tries his hand at a feature film. His friend reads the script, thinks it's an ungodly mess of muddled symbolism and Freud...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
So last week we had Bright Star, in which 19th century Fanny Brawne came into her own through her gifts as a seamstress. And now...
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
The opening shot of Michael Almereyda’s Paradise — an ethereal, coldly perfect trip down a moving walkway bathed in blue light — transports the viewer to the realm of pure cinema, the kind that this idiosyncratically beautiful work explores throughout its entirety. You’ll know whether or not this is your thing the second Almereyda cuts from this scene to a shot of a young girl...
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Michael Almereyda's most recent feature film, Paradise (2009), is presented at The Museum of Modern Art in a weeklong engagement in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2 from September 24 through 30, 2009.
Twitch (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
It is certainly appropriate and easy enough to call Michael Almereyda's latest a documentary. But what is it a document of? If you are asking yourself this whilst watching PARADISE and getting stuck on it, then well, you probably won't enjoy the film. Almereyda, a filmmaker who has trudged through the woes of financing and distribution, to come out with an eclectic, often elusive, and sensual catalog...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Michael Almereyda’s “Paradise” is essentially a series of home movies, but home movies of a very high order.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Let's forget about narrative for now, shall we? Let's not focus on narrative, let's live in the moment. And let's consider a documentary focused on...
Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla rereads Sunny Day Real Estate's Diary on the occasion of the band's latest reunion. Scott Indrisek talks with Fever Ray's Karin Dreijer Andersso...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
The opening night of the nonnarrative Michael Almereyda film. Now through Sept. 30. For more information, call 212-397-6980 or visit www.moma.org. ...
Bluegrass Film Society (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Real sex: aesthetics and economics of art-house porn by Jon Lewis Jump Cut ... Romance proved to be part of a late 20th century/early 21st century trend of hard(er)-core foreign-made films: * Francois Ozone's Sitcom (1998), * Lars von Trier's The Idiots (1998), * Leo Carax's Pola X (1999), * Jang sun Woo's Lies (1999), * Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi's Baise Moi (2000), * Patrice Chereau's...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Almereyda's most recent feature film, Paradise (2009), is presented at The Museum of Modern Art in a weeklong engagement in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2 from September 24 through 30, 2009. It is organized by Joshua Siegel, Associate Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art. Paradise is a beautiful, audacious sketchbook, a collection of fragmentary episode
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