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If you saw The Darjeeling Limited at a film festival, you also had the opportunity to see Wes Anderson’s prequel short, “Hotel Chevalier,” which introduces Jason Schwartzman’s Darjeeling character and the neuroses he’s dealing with in the longer film, and which has all the fanboys in a tizzy because it features Natalie Portman’s naked butt. … more…
See it: • Home of the Brave [buy it]. From my review: Sure, it’s earnest — sure, it’s melodramatic. Yup, it’s just barely this side of being a made-for-Lifetime TV soaper. But there’s a mesmerizing power to this little film that comes from its sheer un-told-ness, from its right-now immediacy. There’s none of the irony … more…
Check out my recap of the Heroes episode “Fight or Flight,” which aired last night, over at Film.com. Comments welcome here.
Second in a series of British TV-ku… In London: theatre Film, TV, all in one place. Crossover dazzles
I have this friend who looks a lot like Philip Seymour Hoffman. My friend used to live in NYC but he moved to L.A. a few years back, and since he’s been known to pop back into town unannounced. And more than once I’ve been walking down a Manhattan street and caught a glimpse of … more…
And since you didn’t get a haiku yesterday — I was somewhat distracted — here’s another, the first in a series about my recently renewed and deepened addiction to British television. Call it a TV-ku… When TV’s so good It makes you think of fil-um: Nirvana for geeks
It’s Monday, which means the weekend box office numbers are out, and getting spun by the studios… Smash hit? What if those One million folks this weekend In fact hated it?
It’s no rare thing that a film gets buzz for its director. It’s a rare thing when that director has never made a film before. It’s an even rarer thing when the film by that first-timer turns out to be as astonishingly confident and shrewd as actor-turned-director Ben Affleck’s *Gone Baby Gone.*
Powerful and pitiful performances make this a must-see for fans of stars Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Ruffalo…
Lying on his coat, on the applegrass, gazing at the ridiculously romantic skyline of New New York, that’s the time, Rose. I want to shout at her, at that moment, every time I watch this episode: “Kiss him, you fool!”
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