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October 2007 Archive

October 1, 2007

The News: Stuart Auteurs it Up for NYFF45

Also: Americans love a lawbreaker; Woodstock gets its close-up

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Musty Orphans and Minor Tarr

Reeler @ NYFF: Shadowy festival imports fail to thrill despite rich art-house pedigree

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October 2, 2007

The News: Cinetic Media, Eh?

Also: Sokurov finds an American buyer; breaking down the NYFF and Coney Island FF parties as only the Israels can

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TODAY: Reeler Collides With IFC; None Survive

Reeler at NYFF: Submit your questions and insights to live Webcast from Lincoln Center

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In With the New at South Asian Fest

Fourth annual event features premieres from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and... New York?

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October 3, 2007

Lake of Fire

Kaye's epic abortion documentary proves as divisive as it is meticulously two-sided

By Michelle Orange

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The News: Army's NY/LA High-School Reunion

Also: Affleck's feelings are hurt; Sonnenfeld tries mulligan at Apple Store

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Abel Minded

Reeler @ NYFF: From SoHo to Chelsea, trailing the tireless Ferrara's NYC odyssey

By Annaliese Griffin

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I'm Not There Isn't

Reeler @ NYFF: A skeptic greets Haynes's Dylan epic at Lincoln Center

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October 4, 2007

Sleuth Sorts it Out in Chelsea

Don't call it a remake, Caine and Branagh tell NYC audience

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The French Delegation

October promises biggest French cinema surge of the year for New York

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The News: Today in List Clusterfuckery

Also: Landis contemplates Rickles; Sex and the City gets younger for big screen

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The Heartbreak Kid

Heartbreak remake's upped gross-out quotient marks the Farrelly ethos back in effect

By R. Emmet Sweeney

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My Kid Could Paint That

Director Bar-Lev cops out on heady questions he raises about truth and art

By Vadim Rizov

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Michael Clayton

Gilroy's moral thriller mimics skins of '70s mentors without attaining their soul

By Keith Uhlich

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October 5, 2007

Bible, Kid New All Over Again

Reeler Flashback: Revisiting the Sundance debuts of Daniel Karslake and Amir Bar-Lev

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Center of Gravity

Reeler reviews editor Michelle Orange surveys another of round of hits and misses at NYFF's halfway point

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The News: All-Positive Friday!

Inside: Reeler sides with Kaufman (twice!); Scott over the moon as NYFF rolls into second week

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What's Wrong With This Picture?

Art Fag City: How My Kid reinforces fears and myths about modern art

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October 6, 2007

Margot and the Mistress

Reeler @ NYFF: Everything old is (sort of) new again as Kidman, Baumbach and Breillat hit NYC

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October 7, 2007

Harsh Mistress

Reeler Interview: Director Breillat on her passion project and a diva named Argento

By S.T. VanAirsdale

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October 8, 2007

The News: Harvey Sheiks it Up

Also: Biggie casting call draws dreamers; Kehr owes someone an apology

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Lynch-Mania Coming to Sixth Ave.

New doc, Eraserhead revival and midnight retrospective take over fall program

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Control

Gorgeous black-and-white visuals are the real star of unhappy rocker's biopic

By Eric Kohn

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October 9, 2007

The News: Come for the Hype, Stay for the Commercial

Also: IFC snaps up another pair; are you Rated X?

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Jamie Stuart: Once More, With Feeling

Reeler @ NYFF: Stunning new video dispatch among filmmaker's best

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The Drama of De Palma

Reeler @ NYFF: Director-on- distributor violence keeps Redacted on fest radar

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October 10, 2007

The Man at the Control

Reeler Flashback: Anton Corbijn talks Curtis biopic as ReelerTV goes black-and-white

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The News: "De Niro Inc."

Also: We're depressed, watch our movie; Ellis Island gets the German treatment

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Warmth to Spare

Reeler @ NYFF: Landis's Rickles doc among fest's funniest in years

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Vaughn, Temple En Route to CMJ

Oh, and something else about some guy named Anderson Cooper

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October 11, 2007

Hoping Against Hype

Reeler reviews editor Michelle Orange on NYFF's hot-ticket Baumbach, Breillat and Coen selections

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The News: Cronenberg Explains Himself

Also: Carr returns with Times two-fer; Bogdanovich preparing for NYFF in 2044

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Lars and the Real Girl

Sex dolls and sentiment make uncommon bedfellows in this strangely tender small-town tale

By R. Emmet Sweeney

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We Own the Night

Brisk but boring crime drama unmitigated by a few good performances

By Vadim Rizov

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King Corn Crops up in NYC

Two rookie farmers play it by ear in new documentary

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Halle Berry, Lost in the Fire

Actress cheers for Bier, Benicio at special NYC screening

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October 12, 2007

The News: All-Positive Friday!

Inside: Wade's Freeheld short-listed for Oscars; close-ups get their close-up

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The Animated Life

Reeler @ NYFF: Filmmakers bring Persepolis to city for closing night

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Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Protestants rule and Catholics predictably drool, but Elizabeth redux is as ideologically confused as it is completely meaningless

By Michelle Orange

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October 15, 2007

Young Blood

Williamsburg splatter epic Murder Party joins others to mobilize "hipster horror" genre

By John Lichman

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A Useless End

Reeler @ NYFF: Jia impresses, Castillo depresses at 45th fest closes

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The News: Tyler Perry Conquers World

Also: Idle Weinsteins apparently still newsworthy; Streep set for Lincoln Center tribute in 2008

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October 16, 2007

From Woodstock With Love

A 48-hour Catskills sojourn reveals two new classics and a fest to watch

By S.T. VanAirsdale

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October 17, 2007

The Lethem Picture Show

Brooklyn author and honorary BAM curator talks cinephilia and adaptation with The Reeler

By Annaliese Griffin

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The News: Fingers on the Trigger

Also: I'm Not There gets benefit concert; Bloomberg latest notch on IFP bed post

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Love, Hate and Michael Haneke

Cynical Games-manship ensues at MoMA retrospective's closing night

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October 18, 2007

Wristcutters: A Love Story

Endearing and intelligent vision of the afterlife may soften even the hardest of hipster asses

By Vadim Rizov

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Rendition

Discourse on U.S. torture policies less cogent -- and entertaining -- than it thinks

By Michelle Orange

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Reservation Road

Like bad teenage poetry, Terry George's clumsy melodrama insists solely on its own tragedy

By Vadim Rizov

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River to the Hamptons

Reeler Interview: Actor-director Chris Eigeman on his upcoming fest premiere and finding Famke Janssen's inner pool shark

By S.T. VanAirsdale

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Gone Baby Gone

Affleck's debut a twisted love letter to Boston's roughest but a just plain twisted narrative

By Michelle Orange

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Festival in Law

Fordham Law Film Festival returns for second year of cinematic deliberations

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October 19, 2007

Will the Real Zodiac Please Stand Up?

Fincher bringing seven extra minutes with him next month at Lincoln Center

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Black White in Color

Reeler Interview: Documentarian James Crump on his enigmatic subjects Wagstaff and Mapplethorpe

By Ben Gold

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The News: All-Positive Friday! Video Edition

Inside: Drew Carey pinches bladders; revisiting Mailer and one of our favorite flies on the wall

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October 22, 2007

The News: Chill in the Air for Box Office, Coppola

Also: Lumet deja vu; shorts festival returns with ambition to spare

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Temple of Punk

Filmmaker shares new Strummer doc with eager crowd at CMJ FilmFest

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Gothams Sound Off for '07

Zobel's debut scores hat trick, Loktev nabs pair as IFP nominations revealed

By S.T. VanAirsdale

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October 23, 2007

The News: Binary Burns Coming Soon to iTunes

Also: Stuart defies Gravity; Seberg vs. the world in beauty sweepstakes

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The Reeler Finds The Hamptons -- Again

24 hours of traffic, tragedy and even a couple of worthwhile films

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October 24, 2007

Lagerfeld Confidential

Largely ephemeral, day-in-the-life doc studded with a few meaty moments

By Michelle Orange

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Documentaries Gone Wild

DocFest07 hosts Who, Flynt and non-fiction forces at Paley Center

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Karl's in Charge

Director Marconi on the matter-of-fact trail of Lagerfeld Confidential

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The News: The Long and Short of It

Also: Ansen flashes back (and back); Bean makes Noise in Rome

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Now Playing: The Totally Unrelated Blog-a-Thon

One week of freedom to spoil the film blogosphere with whim and whatever

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Horror Fest Goes to School

New digs at NYU welcome Roth, honor Lewis and unspool Boll's latest

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Jimmy Carter Man From Plains

Demme succumbs to the pie-eyed Carter myth in his disappointing documentary

By Keith Uhlich

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The Real Thing

Totally Unrelated Blog-a-Thon: What we can -- and should -- learn from Dionne Warwick

By S.T. VanAirsdale

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October 25, 2007

The News: Troma on the Move

Also: Mulberry Street goes national; Anderson apparently big in Sweden

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Mr. Untouchable

Imaginatively bankrupt portrait drains the color from one of NYC's flashiest gangsters

By Vadim Rizov

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"They're All Going to Die!"

Reeler Interview: Catching up with the evil genius behind the Pioneer Theater's Werewolf All-Nighter

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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Lumet's steady, memorable crime drama embodies existential despair

By Eric Kohn

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The Day the Music Vied

Duelling Harlem kingpin films bring Damon Dash and Jay-Z too close for comfort -- again

By S.T. VanAirsdale

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October 26, 2007

The News: All-Positive Friday!

Inside: Welcome Streep to the New Jersey Hall of Fame(!); another Weinstein "leak" mysteriously good for buzz

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October 29, 2007

"One Lucky Moment"

Reeler Roundtable: Catching up with three generations of Croatian filmmakers as national cinema takes NYC

By S.T. VanAirsdale

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The News: Mayor's Office Backs Off Permits

Also: Bob Berney still good at his job; Shelly Foundation sets date for inaugural gala

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Letterman Wearing Pants on New Doc

Talk icon lending name to Election Day chronicle of young candidates

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October 30, 2007

Unwritten Rules

Reeler Interview: Director Temple on new Strummer doc, campfire filmmaking and how not to light Scorsese

By S.T. VanAirsdale

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The News: Pull Up a Chair, Edelstein's on a Roll

Also: Bloggy producer-on-consultant violence; micro-marketing hot new trend for '07

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Gangsters Work it Out

Harlem drug kingpin tandem reunited for Untouchable/Gangster flashback in NYM

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The Nanking Experience

Special screening of Guttentag's harrowing new doc delivers influence and intensity downtown

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October 31, 2007

The News: Real Horror Show

Also: Butler flees Escape in terror; Critics in Crisis, Day 3

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Yes, But Can Amy Fisher Act?

Long Island Lolita sex video makes rounds, world yawns with interest

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Big Rig Rolls Into NYC

Pray's latest screens Stranger Than Fiction with a message for all you four-wheelers

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