December 4, 2007 – 4:34 pm
With all this hand-wringing over THE GOLDEN COMPASS, we should thank God someone’s paying attention to what kids might learn from ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS.
October 12, 2007 – 7:24 am
A number of films that we’ve covered previously on SpoutBlog are either opening or expanding this weekend:
Across the Universe: Julie Taymor’s Beatles musical has grossed almost $9 million over the last month in limited release, mainly drawing (as I predicted) repeat crowds of young women. The weekend, it expands to just under 1,000 screens. I’m [...]
September 17, 2007 – 11:30 am
Derrida explains Ian Curtis.
September 14, 2007 – 6:00 am
THE BRAVE ONE–opening tonight–begs the question, has Jodie Foster lost her edge? Karina reports on movies that moved her from the Toronto International Film Festival 2007, ending tomorrow. (Brad Pitt actually makes the cut.)
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September 8, 2007 – 7:33 pm
The two films that have hit me the hardest here in Toronto are Control, which I wrote about here, and The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford. Both films, based on real-life characters and incidents, are simultaneously technically superlative and heartbreaking. With one day left to go in my Toronto 2007 tenure, [...]
September 7, 2007 – 5:55 am
Anton Corbijn’s Ian Curtis film completely upends the rock biopic game.
September 6, 2007 – 5:18 am
Less than 48 hours after reutrning to New York from Telluride, I’m back at LaGaurdia waiting for a flight to Toronto. A couple of weeks back, I made a list of 15 films that I planned to see during my four days in Canada. I made a bit of a dent in that list last [...]
August 13, 2007 – 11:09 am
Several of our favorite blogs have noted the passing of British music impresario Tony Wilson. Manchester tastemaker Wilson (who was played by Steve Coogan in Michael Winterbottom’s 24 Hour Party People) founded Factory Records, and is generally considered at least partially responsible for launching the careers of The Fall, OMD and Joy Division (and later [...]
