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March 2007 Archive

March 1, 2007

Screening Gotham: Everything's Jake With Fincher

Also: Weinsteins play well with Others, Rock could be steadier

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Nair Gets Local with Namesake

"It was much more the world that I inhabit ... than, say, Queens or Little India," filmmaker tells The Reeler

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Raise the Red Lantern

Vintage Zhang revival a reminder of how much has changed in 16 years

By Vadim Rizov

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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

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March 2, 2007

Zodiac

Fincher's serial-killer opus goes long on details, falls short on intrigue

By Michelle Orange

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Black Snake Moan

Deep blues haunt Jackson and Ricci in stellar, sweltering Southern drama

By Vadim Rizov

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Tempest in a Crackpot?

Unusual ethical questions arise as film writer battles GreenCine over yanked director interviews

By S.T. VanAirsdale

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Children’s Film Fest Brings Brains, Not Barney

Tenth anniversary of NYICFF features sophisticated picks for all ages

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Screening Gotham: All-Positive Friday!

Inside: Staten Island's cinematic conquest, Post critic wedding announcements

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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

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March 5, 2007

Screening Gotham: Visa Woes Continue in NYC

Also: Sevigny sorry she sucked, homegrown Spider-Man 3 ready for... Tokyo

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300 Has No Political Message. So What is the Message?

A vexed Snyder and Miller shrug off ideological allusions to NY press

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Gasp! Will Documentaries Survive the Oscars?

Of open letters, Jerry Seinfeld and hearts on sleeves

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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

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March 6, 2007

Screening Gotham: Premiere is Dead. Long Live Premiere!

Inside: Print vessel folds while online promises that 300 really, really is fascist

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Arkin's Spoils of War: The iTunes Celebrity Playlist

Folk, jazz and a Tibetan Lama score big in Oscar-winner's curatorial triumph

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March 7, 2007

Exterminating Angels

A director's innocence is at stake in cavalcade of onanism, hysteria and whorishness

By Michelle Orange

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March 8, 2007

Angels at My Table

Chatting with Brisseau and Co. about sex, violence and ... Tinto Brass?

By S.T. VanAirsdale

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Spartan Cinema

The Snyder/Miller collaboration could be the beginning of a beautiful, bloody friendship

By Matt Singer

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Loach, Murphy Bring Mighty Wind to MoMA

Director and star attend NYC preview of Palme D'Or-winning Irish independence saga

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Screening Gotham: "They Said It" Edition

Inside: Riefenstahl's biographers have it all over critics; Kiarostami conjures metaphors for metaphors

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Woody in the News: Muse Edition

Allen to join Keaton fete at Lincoln Center, reunite with Scarlett on Barcelona project?

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Google This: Magnolia Subpoenas User Names

Cuban, Bowles revive battle to keep content off YouTube

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March 9, 2007

Host Mortem

Exploring the dark side of the monster blockbuster with director Bong Joon-ho

By John Lichman

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Screening Gotham: All-Positive Friday!

Inside: Hudson gets diplomatic, nervous; Harlem Stage on Screen doesn't want your hype

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The Host

Korean deconstruction of the blockbuster offers powerful incitement, guiltless good fun

By Eric Kohn

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The Namesake

Coming of age means coming to terms with ancestry in Nair's lovingly embroidered adaptation

By Michelle Orange

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One Night Only: Maysles Cracks the Archives

Director in attendance at rare screening of '60s-era shorts and studio commissions

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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

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Screening Gotham: Hounddog Can Only Get Better, Right? Right???

Also: Panahi and Kiarostami talk; NYPD lays down hard line on Busta Rhymes

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Tribeca Sneak Peek: The Features

Competition line-ups set; Jolie, Spidey 3 and Fred Durst (?) in rumor mill

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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

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Andrew Sarris Likes to Watch

The greatest films of all time get terrific new climaxes for every viewing

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Brooklyn Dodger: Glover Pops Foul, Flees in Court Tangle

Putative meeting for "movie project" ends with actor/producer fighting mad

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More Tribeca: Whitaker Premiere, Dawson Revenge

Also: Firestone's doc Attica revived, actors get behind the camera

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IFC Center, Matchmaker

Marquee marriage proposal first ever to invoke Lynch, Brisseau and Michael Caton-Jones

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March 14, 2007

Scenes From the Siege

A pair of documentaries at Film Forum unearth haunting, surreal images of WWII

By Jana Prikryl

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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

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Canada Front and Center at MoMA

Polley opens series of new films with Away From Her, Q&A

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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

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"It's About Instinct"

Sarah Polley and Olympia Dukakis on national cinema and the aching drama of Away From Her

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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

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More Tribeca: Fred Durst Breaks Through

Also: Elijah Wood gets drafted, Family Festival picks 10

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The Reeler Cleans Out the Inbox

Inside: Great World of Sound goes to Magnolia; sacrifice your credit card for a movie ticket

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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

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The Wind That Shakes The Barley

Ken Loach's IRA rebellion epic a study in how movements are made and unmade

By Vadim Rizov

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American Cannibal

Sublimely cynical look at the reality TV business may be too good to be true

By Michelle Orange

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Of Rock and Rohmer

The actor/director on Chloe, comedy and getting personal in I Think I Love My Wife

By S.T. VanAirsdale

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Screening Gotham: All-Positive Friday!

Inside: Talkin' Walken; who did Kyle Smith piss off this time?

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Fashion Slate

U.K.'s Fashion In Film festival tailors a century of cinema style for inaugural NYC run

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March 19, 2007

When the Doctor Was In

Doc highlighting Hunter Thompson's last crusade gets NYC premiere

By S.T. VanAirsdale

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Screening Gotham: Post vs. Soderbergh. Again.

Inside: Gossip powerhouse demands historical accuracy; Anthony Lane has a question for you

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Happy Birthday, Harvey!

The Flushing Kid celebrates the big 5-5!

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More Tribeca: Shorts, Schools and Baseball

Shorts by Plympton and Stiles among premieres; Bronx kids screen three, then their own

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March 20, 2007

Screening Gotham: Reign Over 3,000 Miles Away

Also: Maysles just wants to see you happy; filmmakers become comic-book heroes

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Radio Free Hickenlooper

Filmmaker reviews career on podcast, including something about some Sienna Miller movie

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STF Triple Whammy: Michael Moore, Billy The Kid and Czech Dream

Latest SXSW-winning doc joins Traverse City FF highlight; Moore in person

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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

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"I'm In a Lot of Movies"

Moore talks Traverse City, doesn't talk Manufacturing Dissent at NYC appearance

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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

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Guggenheim Sticks to the Truth

In Reeler exclusive, Oscar-winner dismisses latest round of skeptics and naysayers

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TONIGHT: Reeler Screening Series Continues with Air Guitar Nation

Bjorn Turoque, director Lipsitz and Co. to pay visit for Q&A

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Hoax Hoopla: Whither the Twin Towers?

World Trade Center disappears in Hallstrom's period Manhattan

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March 22, 2007

Offside

A soccer game provides fertile ground for examination of Iran's treacherous gender divide

By Eric Kohn

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Journey From the Fall

Worthy cause meets confused effect in post-Vietnam POW drama

By Vadim Rizov

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Color Me Kubrick

Real-life Kubrick impersonator's story gets the feather-light farce treatment

By Michelle Orange

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Air Guitar Nation

Endearing characters and charming trash talk keep air guitar doc rocking

By Michelle Orange

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Reign Over Me

Sandler steps up to nearly redeem scattershot 9/11 postlude

By R. Emmet Sweeney

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Screening Gotham: Almodóvar's Women, Scorsese's Men

Also: The fuzzy reality of On the Bowery; Cuarón tolerates your questions

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More Tribeca: All Access Slate Revealed

32 projects selected for Institute's industry outreach program

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Sundance at BAM Gets Local for '07

The Reeler talks to BAMcinematek's Almozini about strong shorts, surprise picks

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March 23, 2007

Heavy Snow

Children of Men co-writer (and Astoria kid) Mark Fergus makes directing debut with First Snow

By Jennifer Merin

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Screening Gotham: All-Positive Friday!

Inside: Netflix for free in Brooklyn! Lily Tomlin forgives! DiCaprio and Winslet get even more tragic!

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"Awfully Good": Lumet Recounts Network in NYC

Chayefsky, Dunaway and Finch among talking points at standing-room-only Academy screening

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Once Twice: Carney's Gem Screens in NYC

Irish filmmaker chats about ND/NF premiere and the challenge of the modern musical

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March 26, 2007

Stop the Presses

A look at what's broken in contemporary film criticism -- and how to fix it

By Lewis Beale

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Screening Gotham: Stiles Styles Elle Commercial?

Also: Verhoeven on baby-making; Schulberg on what makes Sammy stall

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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

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Spike Lee Counsels Indies on Directing, Dentistry

Filmmaker hands down wisdom to no-budget auteurs vying for LiveMansion crown

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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

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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

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Screening Gotham: NYT Weighs in on New Directors

Also: Lumenick's grindhouse tour, YouTube revelations trickle out from Tube Time! competitors-to-be

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Going Underground

Experimental, sexploitation and short finds populate 14th NY Underground Film Festival

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Adrienne Shelly Foundation Names First Initiatives

Columbia University, IFP, NYU and others combine resources to aid women filmmakers

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March 29, 2007

The Lookout

Veteran screenwriter's directorial debut true to noir-ish, antihero form

By Michelle Orange

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After the Wedding

Outrageous confluence of worst-case scenarios pushes Danish/Indian melodrama beyond the pale

By Vadim Rizov

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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?

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Nobody Puts Tribeca in the Corner

Dirty Dancing revival spearheads Drive-In series; panels and more youth programs set as well

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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

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Screening Gotham: All-Positive Friday!

Inside: Baldwin offering his own take on the G.I. Bill; Clooney's confidence worth $1 million

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Scott Frank Off Short List for Next Michael Bay Project

Hot-shot screenwriter-turned-director could teach action hack a thing or two

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Bier's Wedding Party

Danish director opens Oscar-nominated pageant of pathos in NYC

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Golden Tickets: This Year, Tribeca Will Cost You

Report: 50 percent jump could set viewers back as much as $25 for high-profile screenings

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