Week in Review 11/09/07

By Karina Longworth posted 10 months ago

Ben Affleck was secretly an auteur, even when blingin’.
Why The Hills is more like L’eclisse than The Truman Show.
David Cronenberg–the video tribute.
Darren Aronofsky has fallen far.
David Lynch has a shoe fetish.
Ze Frank returns to assess the writers strike.
Jack Nicholson talks about the trilogy that he wanted to make but didn’t. No, it’s not Batman.
Kevin looks at a list of “entertainment geniuses” and finds, “Our priorities are thus: first, drugs, then the Internet, then money, then the Simpsons, then the abolition of racist regimes.”
Amy Taubin tried to revive the Mumblecore backlash. Karina poked holes.
On this week’s podcast, we track Tom Cruise from teenage pimp to midlife crisis.
Kevin wonders if there’s a Bob Dylan that Todd Haynes left out of I’m Not There: corporate shill.
Lions For Lambs: Tom Cruise puts the media in its place. It’s just as laughable as it sounds.
Steal a Pencil For Me: A documentary about love in a concentration camp.
The director of Xanadu complains about boobs on Fox News.