June 2007 - Posts

The week's critic wrangle: "The Ghosts of Cité Soleil."
Friday, June 29, 2007 2:11 PM

+ The Ghosts of Cité Soleil: Danish filmmaker Asger Leth dove into what the U.N. has called the most dangerous...

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The week's critic wrangle: "Evening."
Friday, June 29, 2007 1:18 PM

+ Evening: When a film with this kind of pedigree — it's based on a novel by Susan Minot; adapted...

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Fests, the stage, frippery.
Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:51 PM

Sorry, haters: Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited will open this year's New York Film Festival, while the great No Country...

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Tuesday odds: Waldorf.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007 8:34 PM

I had a revelation while watching Muppets Music Moments, writes Cheryl Eddy at the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Statler and...

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A mighty makeup job.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007 6:15 PM

To file under issues that have failed to catch fire: Is Angelina Jolie's casting as the Dutch-Jewish, Afro-Cuban Mariane Pearl...

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In the works: Ritchie returns.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007 1:40 PM

New in the works: Remember Revolver? No, you don't, you liar, you. Guy Ritchie's 2005 Kabbalah-laced gangster effort has yet...

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Once more, with feeling.
Monday, June 25, 2007 6:03 PM

Reading about the Captivity's planned premiere party in Michael Cieply's report in the New York Times, we had a chuckle...

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IFC News: The quarter jar.
Monday, June 25, 2007 1:37 PM

This week on IFC News: Aaron Hillis chats up Zoe Cassavetes, and asks her about her famous family, a certain...

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The week's critic wrangle: "Sicko," "A Mighty Heart."
Friday, June 22, 2007 3:16 PM

+ Sicko: Sicko is only open in New York this week, so we'll be returning to it in the next...

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Culture wars are over (if you want it).
Friday, June 22, 2007 10:06 AM

The rest of the week's critic wrangle is coming shortly, but we first have to give special mention to A.O....

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Plotting King.
Thursday, June 21, 2007 3:01 PM

Stephen King — bestseller list mainstay, horror icon, fierce Mainer, sporadic EW columnist — has provided the genesis of so...

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NYAFF: "Big Bang Love: Juvenile A."
Wednesday, June 20, 2007 2:41 PM

You hear Takashi Miike made a gay prison love story and you think... well, we're not sure what you think,...

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IFC News: NYAFF, H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, halftime.
Monday, June 18, 2007 3:37 PM

This week on IFC News: Our New York Asian Film Festival reviews are being gathered here, along with a few...

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NYAFF: "I'm a Cyborg, But That's Okay."
Monday, June 18, 2007 11:50 AM

Park Chan-wook (mostly) trades in the vengeance for offbeat romance in I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK, a love story...

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NYAFF: "The Banquet."
Monday, June 18, 2007 9:58 AM

Somehow, the historical martial arts epic has become the Chinese answer to the Merchant Ivory film, steeped in prestige, crafted...

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