Michael Pitt and Steve Buscemi in Tom DiCillo’s Delirious (2007)
I didn’t see Tom DiCillo’s new film Delirious, and the odds are neither did you. Starring Steve Buscemi as a paparazzo who takes Michael Pitt under his wing, it came out last August to good reviews from Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, the New York Times, the New Yorker and Salon. [...]
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Charlie Wilson’s War, the new movie from Mike Nichols starring Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman, tells the true story of Texas Congressman Charlie Wilson (Hanks), a hard drinking womanizer who helps fund a covert war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the early 80s.
Going into it, I had a bad [...]
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Laura Linney and Philip Bosco in Tamara Jenkins’ The Savages
Kind of a weird week for movies. The fine citizens of New York and Los Angeles have a couple of interesting new releases to look forward to. If you live elsewhere, take this opportunity to go see No Country for Old Men (again or for the [...]
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Ok, there’s no denying it now. It really is Awards Season once again as the first prizes were handed out last night at the IFP’s 17th Annual Gotham Awards. Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a long season.
Sean Penn’s terrific Into the Wild (which cost too much to be nominated for the Spirit Awards) [...]
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Glad to see Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There getting much Spirit Awards loving with four nominations plus the Robert Altman Award. Also glad to see Tamara Jenkins recognized for The Savages even if that film didn’t get a Best Feature nomination. Congrats to Once and 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days for the Foreign Film recognition. Not surprisingly, Juno got 5 [...]
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From Twitch by way of Karina at SpoutBlog I learned today that Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Syndromes and a Century is making its way to DVD in the United States on January 15, 2008.
(sound of crickets chirping)
Ok, so why am I telling you this? For starters, Syndromes was the best one hour and forty-five minutes I spent at [...]
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Film Independent, the fine folks who bring you the Los Angeles Film Festival and the Spirit Awards would like you to know that the nominees for the 2008 Spirit Awards will be announced Tuesday, November 28 at 8:00am Pacific Standard Time. The press conference will be broadcast online at the Spirit Awards website.
A word of warning: [...]
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It’s fair to say I’m probably not the target audience for the new Disney family film Enchanted. It’s also a safe bet that it was a bad idea sneaking in to see it right after my third viewing of the Coens’ great No Country For Old Men. The thing is, there is plenty of [...]
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Living in Cinema is currently going through some server changes and design upgrades. Since I’m doing it myself and since I don’t know what I’m doing (a lethal combination), there will probably be glitches. Thank you in advance for your patience.
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In anticipation of the holiday, most new movies are opening on Wednesday this week. Once again we start off with the expansions:
No Country for Old Men. The new Coen Brothers movie expands into 800 theaters just in time for the holiday. You really and truly have no excuse for not seeing it now. Step away from the [...]
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