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March 1, 2007
Screening Gotham: Everything's Jake With Fincher
Also: Weinsteins play well with Others, Rock could be steadier
Nair Gets Local with Namesake
"It was much more the world that I inhabit ... than, say, Queens or Little India," filmmaker tells The Reeler
Raise the Red Lantern
Vintage Zhang revival a reminder of how much has changed in 16 years
By Vadim Rizov
92nd Street Y Announces Makor's New Tribeca Digs
Film, arts and culture programs to occupy more than 15,000 square feet on Hudson Street
March 2, 2007
Zodiac
Fincher's serial-killer opus goes long on details, falls short on intrigue
By Michelle Orange
Black Snake Moan
Deep blues haunt Jackson and Ricci in stellar, sweltering Southern drama
By Vadim Rizov
Tempest in a Crackpot?
Unusual ethical questions arise as film writer battles GreenCine over yanked director interviews
By S.T. VanAirsdale
Children’s Film Fest Brings Brains, Not Barney
Tenth anniversary of NYICFF features sophisticated picks for all ages
Screening Gotham: All-Positive Friday!
Inside: Staten Island's cinematic conquest, Post critic wedding announcements
March 4, 2007
The City's Other Rendez-Vous
Cahiers du Cinema editor Frodon flashes back to the '70s with program in NYC
By Aaron Hillis
March 5, 2007
Screening Gotham: Visa Woes Continue in NYC
Also: Sevigny sorry she sucked, homegrown Spider-Man 3 ready for... Tokyo
300 Has No Political Message. So What is the Message?
A vexed Snyder and Miller shrug off ideological allusions to NY press
Gasp! Will Documentaries Survive the Oscars?
Of open letters, Jerry Seinfeld and hearts on sleeves
Kirk Douglas Makes Date With 92nd Street Y
90-year-old icon to talk up new book, old legends and probably that pesky chopper crash
March 6, 2007
Screening Gotham: Premiere is Dead. Long Live Premiere!
Inside: Print vessel folds while online promises that 300 really, really is fascist
Arkin's Spoils of War: The iTunes Celebrity Playlist
Folk, jazz and a Tibetan Lama score big in Oscar-winner's curatorial triumph
March 7, 2007
Exterminating Angels
A director's innocence is at stake in cavalcade of onanism, hysteria and whorishness
By Michelle Orange
March 8, 2007
Angels at My Table
Chatting with Brisseau and Co. about sex, violence and ... Tinto Brass?
By S.T. VanAirsdale
Spartan Cinema
The Snyder/Miller collaboration could be the beginning of a beautiful, bloody friendship
By Matt Singer
Loach, Murphy Bring Mighty Wind to MoMA
Director and star attend NYC preview of Palme D'Or-winning Irish independence saga
Screening Gotham: "They Said It" Edition
Inside: Riefenstahl's biographers have it all over critics; Kiarostami conjures metaphors for metaphors
Woody in the News: Muse Edition
Allen to join Keaton fete at Lincoln Center, reunite with Scarlett on Barcelona project?
Google This: Magnolia Subpoenas User Names
Cuban, Bowles revive battle to keep content off YouTube
March 9, 2007
Host Mortem
Exploring the dark side of the monster blockbuster with director Bong Joon-ho
By John Lichman
Screening Gotham: All-Positive Friday!
Inside: Hudson gets diplomatic, nervous; Harlem Stage on Screen doesn't want your hype
The Host
Korean deconstruction of the blockbuster offers powerful incitement, guiltless good fun
By Eric Kohn
The Namesake
Coming of age means coming to terms with ancestry in Nair's lovingly embroidered adaptation
By Michelle Orange
One Night Only: Maysles Cracks the Archives
Director in attendance at rare screening of '60s-era shorts and studio commissions
March 12, 2007
Meme of the Crop
Art Fag City: Blend of Web culture and centuries-old art movement is the year's best show so far
By Paddy Johnson
Screening Gotham: Hounddog Can Only Get Better, Right? Right???
Also: Panahi and Kiarostami talk; NYPD lays down hard line on Busta Rhymes
Tribeca Sneak Peek: The Features
Competition line-ups set; Jolie, Spidey 3 and Fred Durst (?) in rumor mill
March 13, 2007
Screening Gotham: Escape From Are You Shitting Me?
Also: Harvey slips into something a little more comfortable; IndieFilmPedia -- four entries down, 2,498,807 to go
Andrew Sarris Likes to Watch
The greatest films of all time get terrific new climaxes for every viewing
Brooklyn Dodger: Glover Pops Foul, Flees in Court Tangle
Putative meeting for "movie project" ends with actor/producer fighting mad
More Tribeca: Whitaker Premiere, Dawson Revenge
Also: Firestone's doc Attica revived, actors get behind the camera
IFC Center, Matchmaker
Marquee marriage proposal first ever to invoke Lynch, Brisseau and Michael Caton-Jones
March 14, 2007
Scenes From the Siege
A pair of documentaries at Film Forum unearth haunting, surreal images of WWII
By Jana Prikryl
Screening Gotham: Scott Rudin Has Friends Everywhere
Also: Lethem not quite, just sort of giving it away; what Steve Buscemi and The Host have in common
Canada Front and Center at MoMA
Polley opens series of new films with Away From Her, Q&A
March 15, 2007
Screening Gotham: Cuts and More Cuts For Grind House?
Also: Daniel Craig makes Shortbus cameo (kind of); Lindsay Lohan gives paparazzi a ride
"It's About Instinct"
Sarah Polley and Olympia Dukakis on national cinema and the aching drama of Away From Her
From Borat to Bruno to ... Veber?
On his way out of New York, French comedy legend talks about the other Sacha Baron Cohen film in the works
More Tribeca: Fred Durst Breaks Through
Also: Elijah Wood gets drafted, Family Festival picks 10
The Reeler Cleans Out the Inbox
Inside: Great World of Sound goes to Magnolia; sacrifice your credit card for a movie ticket
March 16, 2007
I Think I Love My Wife
Rock's mainstream stab at depicting affluent black life suffers from a split-personality plot
By Vadim Rizov
The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Ken Loach's IRA rebellion epic a study in how movements are made and unmade
By Vadim Rizov
American Cannibal
Sublimely cynical look at the reality TV business may be too good to be true
By Michelle Orange
Of Rock and Rohmer
The actor/director on Chloe, comedy and getting personal in I Think I Love My Wife
By S.T. VanAirsdale
Screening Gotham: All-Positive Friday!
Inside: Talkin' Walken; who did Kyle Smith piss off this time?
Fashion Slate
U.K.'s Fashion In Film festival tailors a century of cinema style for inaugural NYC run
March 19, 2007
When the Doctor Was In
Doc highlighting Hunter Thompson's last crusade gets NYC premiere
By S.T. VanAirsdale
Screening Gotham: Post vs. Soderbergh. Again.
Inside: Gossip powerhouse demands historical accuracy; Anthony Lane has a question for you
Happy Birthday, Harvey!
The Flushing Kid celebrates the big 5-5!
More Tribeca: Shorts, Schools and Baseball
Shorts by Plympton and Stiles among premieres; Bronx kids screen three, then their own
March 20, 2007
Screening Gotham: Reign Over 3,000 Miles Away
Also: Maysles just wants to see you happy; filmmakers become comic-book heroes
Radio Free Hickenlooper
Filmmaker reviews career on podcast, including something about some Sienna Miller movie
STF Triple Whammy: Michael Moore, Billy The Kid and Czech Dream
Latest SXSW-winning doc joins Traverse City FF highlight; Moore in person
March 21, 2007
Reeler Roundtable: The New Yorkers of New Directors/New Films (Part Two)
Loktev, Zalla and Zobel on the festival, distribution challenges and dealing with critics
By S.T. VanAirsdale
"I'm In a Lot of Movies"
Moore talks Traverse City, doesn't talk Manufacturing Dissent at NYC appearance
Reeler Roundtable: The New Yorkers of New Directors/New Films (Part One)
Zobel, Loktev and Zalla bring their work home for NYC premieres
By S.T. VanAirsdale
Guggenheim Sticks to the Truth
In Reeler exclusive, Oscar-winner dismisses latest round of skeptics and naysayers
TONIGHT: Reeler Screening Series Continues with Air Guitar Nation
Bjorn Turoque, director Lipsitz and Co. to pay visit for Q&A
Hoax Hoopla: Whither the Twin Towers?
World Trade Center disappears in Hallstrom's period Manhattan
March 22, 2007
Offside
A soccer game provides fertile ground for examination of Iran's treacherous gender divide
By Eric Kohn
Journey From the Fall
Worthy cause meets confused effect in post-Vietnam POW drama
By Vadim Rizov
Color Me Kubrick
Real-life Kubrick impersonator's story gets the feather-light farce treatment
By Michelle Orange
Air Guitar Nation
Endearing characters and charming trash talk keep air guitar doc rocking
By Michelle Orange
Reign Over Me
Sandler steps up to nearly redeem scattershot 9/11 postlude
By R. Emmet Sweeney
Screening Gotham: Almodóvar's Women, Scorsese's Men
Also: The fuzzy reality of On the Bowery; Cuarón tolerates your questions
More Tribeca: All Access Slate Revealed
32 projects selected for Institute's industry outreach program
Sundance at BAM Gets Local for '07
The Reeler talks to BAMcinematek's Almozini about strong shorts, surprise picks
March 23, 2007
Heavy Snow
Children of Men co-writer (and Astoria kid) Mark Fergus makes directing debut with First Snow
By Jennifer Merin
Screening Gotham: All-Positive Friday!
Inside: Netflix for free in Brooklyn! Lily Tomlin forgives! DiCaprio and Winslet get even more tragic!
"Awfully Good": Lumet Recounts Network in NYC
Chayefsky, Dunaway and Finch among talking points at standing-room-only Academy screening
Once Twice: Carney's Gem Screens in NYC
Irish filmmaker chats about ND/NF premiere and the challenge of the modern musical
March 26, 2007
Stop the Presses
A look at what's broken in contemporary film criticism -- and how to fix it
By Lewis Beale
Screening Gotham: Stiles Styles Elle Commercial?
Also: Verhoeven on baby-making; Schulberg on what makes Sammy stall
March 27, 2007
Screening Gotham: Blades of Glory Concussion Edition
Inside: New Yorkers' Glory at Sea gets trailer; Rudin honored for contributions to office terror
Spike Lee Counsels Indies on Directing, Dentistry
Filmmaker hands down wisdom to no-budget auteurs vying for LiveMansion crown
March 28, 2007
B-ing There
Film Forum's B Musicals series revives star-studded back-lot bargains of the '40s, '50s and '60s
By Jessica Freeman-Slade
The Hawk is Dying
A midlife crisis is a midlife crisis, but a hawk is so much more than a hawk in leaden drama
By Vadim Rizov
Screening Gotham: NYT Weighs in on New Directors
Also: Lumenick's grindhouse tour, YouTube revelations trickle out from Tube Time! competitors-to-be
Going Underground
Experimental, sexploitation and short finds populate 14th NY Underground Film Festival
Adrienne Shelly Foundation Names First Initiatives
Columbia University, IFP, NYU and others combine resources to aid women filmmakers
March 29, 2007
The Lookout
Veteran screenwriter's directorial debut true to noir-ish, antihero form
By Michelle Orange
After the Wedding
Outrageous confluence of worst-case scenarios pushes Danish/Indian melodrama beyond the pale
By Vadim Rizov
Screening Gotham: You Can't Fire Mia Farrow, Because She Quits
Also: Nanny Diaries springs forward and falls back; what the hell is this "underground," anyway?
Nobody Puts Tribeca in the Corner
Dirty Dancing revival spearheads Drive-In series; panels and more youth programs set as well
March 30, 2007
Killer Freed After 30 Years
Charles Burnett discusses survival, restoration and the mythology of his classic Killer of Sheep
By S.T. VanAirsdale
Screening Gotham: All-Positive Friday!
Inside: Baldwin offering his own take on the G.I. Bill; Clooney's confidence worth $1 million
Scott Frank Off Short List for Next Michael Bay Project
Hot-shot screenwriter-turned-director could teach action hack a thing or two
Bier's Wedding Party
Danish director opens Oscar-nominated pageant of pathos in NYC
Golden Tickets: This Year, Tribeca Will Cost You
Report: 50 percent jump could set viewers back as much as $25 for high-profile screenings