January 2008 - Posts

In the works: Analog nostalgia, Romanek replaced?
Thu, Jan 31 2008 1:42 PM

Trailers: Analog nostalgia! Watch the trailer for Garth Jennings' "Son of Rambow" here (and here's our review of the film...

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Sky, earth, rain.
Thu, Jan 31 2008 10:15 AM

R. Emmet Sweeney has his second dispatch from Rotterdam up at IFC News. He writes: "It's a week into the...

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Sundance 2008: "Bigger, Stronger, Faster*."
Wed, Jan 30 2008 5:39 PM

Christopher Bell's documentary "Bigger, Stronger, Faster*" caught us completely by surprise. Subtitled "The Side Effects of Being American," it begins...

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No country for film critics.
Wed, Jan 30 2008 4:26 PM

Two days ago New York Daily News film critic Jack Mathews announced his retirement (via Movie City News) as of...

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The last supper.
Wed, Jan 30 2008 1:28 PM

A smidgen of network news — the late IFC talk show "Dinner for Five" will be back for one more...

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Odds: Tuesday - Ledger.
Tue, Jan 29 2008 6:25 PM

Christopher Nolan has written a sorrowful salute to Heath Ledger at Newsweek: "That's real charisma—as invisible and natural as gravity....

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Sundance 2008: "Choke."
Tue, Jan 29 2008 4:49 PM

We'd group "Fight Club" in that fierce minority of film literary adaptations that turned out better than the novels on...

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"Crash" TV.
Tue, Jan 29 2008 11:55 AM

[We hope you'll bear with us as we also continue to trickle out Sundance reviews over the next week —...

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Sundance 2008: "Donkey Punch."
Mon, Jan 28 2008 5:46 PM

If you're not familiar with the sexual, er, technique after which "Donkey Punch" is named, we'd like to direct you...

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IFC News: Overshadowed directors, minimalism and Rotterdam.
Mon, Jan 28 2008 3:27 PM

This week on IFC News: Stephen Saito puts together a list of ten directors whose work on well-known film has...

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Sundance 2008: "Sleep Dealer."
Sun, Jan 27 2008 7:29 PM

Pointing a camera at your roommates and having them improv scenes about failing relationships is a lot friendlier to a...

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Sundance 2008: "The Visitor."
Fri, Jan 25 2008 12:29 PM

Thomas McCarthy's films sound pretty terrible in summary. "The Station Agent": Lonely, train-obsessed dwarf moves to rural New Jersey and...

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Sundance 2008: "Assassination of a High School President."
Thu, Jan 24 2008 11:28 AM

"Assassination of a High School President" is a lot like "Brick," just less dark and less good. We'd liked "Brick"...

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Sundance 2008: "Sugar."
Wed, Jan 23 2008 6:25 PM

We'd like to think the idea for "Sugar" sprung from the place the film ends, at a baseball game in...

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Sundance: "Good ***."
Tue, Jan 22 2008 6:46 PM

Not so long ago, we described "Watching the Detectives" as one of those films in which there's "an iteration of...

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