December 27, 2007 – 8:00 am
Why the studios have no immediate incentive to end the strike. Plus: Will Smith doesn’t really sympathize with Hitler, silly!
December 14, 2007 – 2:30 pm
In my first week as a SpoutBlogger, I linked to Kevin Lee’s video essay on Dario Argento’s Inferno. Twelve weeks later (putting us at last weekend), I met Kevin for the first time in Real Life, and he told me that the next installment of his project has going to investigate one of my favorite [...]
December 13, 2007 – 1:27 pm
See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing Streep.
December 11, 2007 – 12:15 pm
Item 1: Judy Garland, performing “Get Happy” in a scene taken from the end of the 1950 musical, Summer Stock.
Item 2: Rufus Wainwright, performing “Get Happy” in an identical outfit, with identical dance moves, from Glastonbury 2007, apropos of this Slant review of the concert album that resulted from Wainwright’s live remake of Garland’s legendary [...]
November 29, 2007 – 6:10 pm
In this edition: the crimes of Jean-Luc Godard, the synergistic resurrection of IDIOCRACY, and the academic rejection of 2GIRLS1CUP.
September 26, 2007 – 5:50 am
What Mark Cuban lacks in dance chops, he more than makes up in reality TV savvy and enthusiasm. Also, he showed up dressed like a hobo, and that’s worth a laugh.
September 25, 2007 – 8:58 am
“He made three great musicals and two of them, Cabaret and All That Jazz, effectively retrofitted the musical for a generation skeptical of artifice, incorporating techniques from the European New Wave and even neorealism. He didn’t only do it first. He did it better than just about anyone, and, despite is fame, he remains under-appreciated [...]
September 10, 2007 – 3:48 pm
Julie Taymor’s long-awaited Beatles-fueled musical seems to have split critics neatly into two camps. There are people like Aaron Dobbs and Anne Thompson, who give Taymor’s spin art 60s pastiche an A for effort, but ultimately concede that the film could, at the very least, stand to have some rainbow-hued fat cut. Then there are [...]
August 28, 2007 – 7:00 am
Plus: News on Owen Wilson, NYFF, and Women in Film.
August 17, 2007 – 7:27 am
Christopher Walken + Prince + Anthony Michael Hall = the dance-off of the century. Well, maybe last century.
