Home (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Sam Sifton has been the New York Times restaurant critic for just four weeks, and already he is full of surprises. We have correctly predicted his rating just once—and that was for the rather obvious Marea . We did not believe that this restaurant would get one star , based on the “meh” reviews we’ve read elsewhere. But we are glad that when Sifton gives a star, the restaurant...
NYtheatre.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Unlike most theatre these days, Idiot Savant leaves its audience with more questions than answers. Its unique and original nature, while almost never crystal clear, forces us to think, and see, in ways rarely required by traditional narrative.
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Recommended Reviewed by Glenn Erickson Remarkable movie star Claudette Colbert was always considered at the very top of her game over a film career that lasted 34 years, 50 if you count an extra TV movie appearance. A consummate professional, she played the game her own way, neither fighting to be the best-regarded actress nor the most desired lover. Stories about her on-set demands never reached...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Twenty-five years after his death, Orson Welles still holds an almost magical grip on cinema buffs’ imaginations
The Shelf (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Our friends at Turner Classic Movies have sent us word recently that this was going to happen, and today we received the official word and press release. As part of their ongoing Vault Collection series- TCM and Universal have entered into a partnership to bring to classic film fans more titles from Universal's library. These films are all digitally remastered, and will produced, akin to the Warner...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
An examination of Depression-era photography and photo-fakery continues, and includes Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Preston Sturges.
Errol Morris (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
An examination of Depression-era photography and photo-fakery continues, and includes Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Preston Sturges.
TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Who is Paul Sullivan? I only know of him because of masaccio , who pointed out this extraordinary NYTimes column , in which he appears to have inverted the plot of Preston Sturges' classic film Sullivan's Travels . Instead of discovering the misery in the poverty stricken America of the Great Depression, as Sturges' protaganist John L. Sullivan did, our modern day Sullivan discovered the travails...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
The creator of The Thick of It and In the Loop reveals the movie moments that helped to build his own sense of humour – and still make him laugh Some jokes never lose their appeal – they just get better with time. One of Britain's leading comic talents is to reveal the debt that he owes to film history by naming the comic moments that have shaped his own sense of humour. Armando Iannucci,...
Later On (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
As I’ve said, I have LOTS of movies going at once on my Roku, and I go from one to another through the evening. So I haven’t seen the end of this German comedy yet, but so far it’s a real winner. It was made in East Germany in 1963, which is pretty much the [...]
The Observer (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
His early death sealed his reputation as a rising Hollywood talent. But how would the late actor's career have developed after The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus? Heath Ledger, in his final role as the mysterious outsider Tony in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, will probably be kept from strict considerations of acting genius by the traditional frolic and froth of a Terry Gilliam picture. Which...
Show Tracker (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Oct. 4 - 10 in PDF format This week's TV Movies 'I DO': Jim and Pam (Jenna Fischer and John Krasinski) invite the office staff to their Niagara Falls wedding...
Walt at Random (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Behave Yourself, 1951, b&w. George Beck (dir.), Farley Granger, Shelley Winters, William Demarest, Francis L. Sullivan, Margalo Gillmore, Lon Chaney Jr., Hans Conried, Elisha Cook Jr., Glenn Anders, Allen Jenkins, Sheldon Leonard, Marvin Kaplan. 1:21. The plot: A CPA (Granger), somewhat browbeaten by his mother-in-law, realizes almost too late that it’s his 2nd Anniversary. He goes [...]
Forbes (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Marjorie Merriweather Post and the fight over a chunk of her fortune.
eudora3w2in | 09/29/2009
TELLURIDE, Colo. (Hollywood Reporter) –Cynicism and sentiment have melded magically in movies by some of the best American directors, from Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder to Alexander Payne. Jason Reitman mined the same territory in "Thank You for Smoking" and his smash hit, "Juno," and it's pleasing to report that he's taken another rewarding journey down this prickly path
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eudora3w2in | 09/29/2009
TELLURIDE, Colo. (Hollywood Reporter) –Cynicism and sentiment have melded magically in movies by some of the best American directors, from Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder to Alexander Payne. Jason Reitman mined the same territory in "Thank You for Smoking" and his smash hit, "Juno," and it's pleasing to report that he's taken another rewarding journey down this prickly path in his eagerly awaited...
krunal2cwgy | 09/29/2009
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roydon06p38 | 09/29/2009
TELLURIDE, Colo. (Hollywood Reporter) –Cynicism and sentiment have melded magically in movies by some of the best American directors, from Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder to Alexander Payne. Jason Reitman mined the same territory in "Thank You for Smoking" and his smash hit, "Juno," and it's pleasing to report that he's taken another rewarding journey down this prickly path in his eagerly awaited...
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