Karina spent five days in Queens bemoaning her future job prospects discussing the future of film criticism. See the A.O. Scott piece, the Molly Haskell/Andrew Sarris piece, the quiz, the answers to the quiz, the piece about compromises. Also, Kevin considers the new pro-critic model, and bad critics are punished severely.
Marilyn Monroe has a sex [...]
Deborah Scranton’s follow-up to THE WAR TAPES is watchable online.
April 16, 2008 – 10:03 am
The legendary coupled critics talk feminism, Kael, and how the war on terror made the rise of Judd Apatow possible.
A review of one of the most anticipated films of SXSW 2008, Kimberley Pierce’s STOP-LOSS.
2008 SXSW Special Jury Prize winning documentary Full Battle Rattle manages to find a unique way to examine the War in Iraq. Rather than bring their cameras into an actual war zone, they decided to look at a simulated war zone, the U.S. Army’s training facility in the Mojave Desert. I talked to directors Tony [...]
Full Battle Rattle Interview [6:40m]:
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March 11, 2008 – 12:20 pm
Review of FULL BATTLE RATTLE
Alex Gibney says his Hunter S. Thompson doc is a critique of the present day media’s obsession with “phony” objectivity.
February 21, 2008 – 4:32 pm
Interviewing Michel Gondry (BE KIND REWIND) about his “contradictions.” Also, will Diablo Cody survive Oscar night?
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January 28, 2008 – 9:54 am
Is the problem with Iraq movies that “realistic as hell” characters make bad movie heroes?
December 6, 2007 – 11:20 am
This is Michel Gondry’s video for Bjork’s Declare Independence. It’s okay. It kinda has the feel of a musical number from Dancer in the Dark, except shot with a more expensive camera, and instead of Catherine Deneuve dressed like a factory worker, there are soldiers bopping around on strings. I actually kind of prefer the [...]
