Charlie Rose with Janet Maslin, Peter Bogdanovich & Richard Corliss; David Denby & Janet Maslin; Michael Lewis (July 2, 1997)
SlushPile.net (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Late last week, the New York Times presented a batch of year-end roundups. Critics Janet Maslin, Dwight Garner, and Michiko Kakutani all pick their top books of 2009. And while I certainly have my disagreements with the critics, I do find lists like this helpful for reminding me of books I might have forgotten over [...]
Moonshot and beyond (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Two new poems will appear in the March issue of Enamel : 'Bus stop' and 'At the four-headed dog.' Emily heard me read 'Bus stop' at the beginning of the year and it tickled her. I'm looking forward to the new issue especially as Enamel is such a beautifully produced magazine. I'm going with Latika to see Jarvis Cocker on Thursday and I'm hoping that he plays lots from his new CD and not much Pulp material...
The IFC Blog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Robert Altman's been dead for nearly three years, and apparently the time for politeness is over. (Hey, it's longer than Heath Ledger got). Mitchel Zuckoff's "Robert Altman: An Oral Biography" hit shelves last Tuesday, a book built out of Altman's final interviews and the voices of his collaborators that doesn't skirt the fact that, however acclaimed he was as a filmmaker, Altman could be...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Barbara Ehrenreich's new book, Bright-Sided , has been the source of a great book review debate recently. Following eye-opening accounts such as Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch , her new effort, released last week, takes on the philosophy of positive thinking, from the mantra of bestsellers like The Secret to the practice of giving presents to cancer patients. Some reviewers have given the book...
Malcolm Redfellow revivus (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
At last ... something worth reading from Dan Brown Well, not quite: more, about Dan Brown. All-comers should try Maureen Dowd's beautifully arch and barbed review of The Lost Symbol . It is a bit of revisiting, for Janet Maslin also did a cracker , no prisoners taken, for the New York Times , a month back: Mr. Brown’s splendid ability to concoct 64-square grids outweighs what might otherwise...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Books of The Times 'Juliet, Naked' Idol, Unplugged; Idolator, Unmoored By JANET MASLIN Published New York Times: September 27, 2009 Nick Hornby ’s “Juliet, Naked” is a taste-based comedy that revolves around a reclusive American singer-songwriter from the 1980s. His name is Tucker Crowe, and he has inspired a small but disproportionately rabid band of followers. One such Crowologist...
Dialogic (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
Yuppie devil: villainy in Kathryn Bigelow’s Blue Steel by Kevin L. Ferguson Jump Cut “When Mephistopheles shows up wearing a gold Rolex he’s truly a creature for our age.” — Janet Maslin Film critic Janet Maslin must call forth the devil himself to explain the curious appeal of the yuppie to late-80s filmgoers. The yuppie devil at the end of the 80s, though, is more a...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009
Whit Stillman's 1998 film, The Last Days of Disco , has been restored and re-released on Criterion this week. Its ensemble cast includes Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Chris Eigeman and Mackenzie Astin. Tomorrow night, Stillman will appear at the Walter Reade Theater for a screening of the film, and a real life disco party will follow in tribute. Two of Stillman's films take place in New York...
Dialogic (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
Misunderstood Modern Cinema: Dune by Mike Dawson Left Field Cinema ... So what didn’t the critics like about the film when it was released? Critics like Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel, Janet Maslin, and Richard Corliss (all of whom are reputable American film critics) all chastised the film with scathing one-star reviews. The common complaint was that the film was structurally a mess, overly confusing,...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 07/20/2009
On July 24, whereupon the Internet first learned that Aaron Sorkin's screenplay for the upcoming Rudin-produced, Fincher-directed Facebook movie would be based on Ben Mezrich's new book on the founding of the social-networking site, some worried Mezrich's history as a fabulist and total lack of access to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg might present a problem. And Janet Maslin's awesome, blistering...
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 07/20/2009
It's being turned into a movie by Aaron Sorkin, but Ben Mezrich's book about the creation of Facebook is apparently as badly written as a typical status update on Facebook. Janet Maslin's New York...
Tom Conoboy's Writing Blog (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
A review by Janet Maslin in the NY Times of Werner Herzog's own story of the shooting of Fitzcarraldo, one of the maddest artistic endeavours of modern times. It's a compelling story, and Herzog's book sounds irresistible, but I was struck by this apparent contradiction in Maslin's review. The observations to be found in “Conquest of the Useless” are much more private and pitiless, as Mr....
Bright Lights After Dark (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Werner Herzog ( above right ) with favorite star Klaus Kinski during the shooting of Fitzcarraldo (1982). Janet Maslin’s very funny review of Herzog’s book, Conquest of the Useless, Reflections From the Making of ‘Fitzcarraldo,’ can be read here .
Dictionopolis in Digitopolis (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
As one or two of you may know, I have recently been reading a book called Is that a gun in your pocket? : women's experience of power in hollywood by Rachel Abramowitz. It's a fine book, and I was already thinking about talking it up here and/or writing one of my Amazon reviews when I've finished it. But not until I read the following paragraph on pp 416 of the hardcover edition, did I realize that...
Infotainment (Free subscription) | 02/17/2009
New York Times Books of The Times With a Disappearance, Life Turns Upside Down New York Times - United States By JANET MASLIN "The Local News," a debut novel by Miriam Gershow, bears a family resemblance to "The Lovely Bones." Ms. Gershow's book is narrated by an ... New York Times Books of The Times New York Times - United States By HOWARD W. FRENCH Barely pages into Emmanuel Jal's...
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