Protesting Black Hawk Down Protesting Black Hawk Down
It's one thing to have Somali groups protesting Black Hawk Down for what they say is an inaccurate and racist portrayal of Somalis.
Feb 21, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Adrian Brune
A Crowbar to the Face A Crowbar to the Face
Frederick Wiseman has spent a lifetime piecing together sounds and images captured from the daily flow.
Feb 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Hollywood Three The Hollywood Three
When The Majestic was about to be released--it's the movie, you will recall, in which Jim Carrey plays a blacklisted screenwriter who suffers from amnesia--someone asked me to to...
Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
In This Corner… In This Corner…
Scattered chunks of films littered the theaters this holiday season. Except for The Royal Tenenbaums, which I've told you about, there wasn't a whole movie to be found. Or, to sp...
Jan 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Home for the Holidays Home for the Holidays
Director Wes Anderson's 'The Royal Tenenbaums' is full of bittersweet whimsy.
Dec 20, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Lights! Cameras! Attack! Hollywood Enlists Lights! Cameras! Attack! Hollywood Enlists
The Taliban may have met its match: the American Dream Machine.
Nov 21, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Marc Cooper
According to Doyle According to Doyle
Which Booker Prize-winner could give Hollywood the boot in the arse it needs and secretly craves? Roddy Doyle, that's who. His Barrytown Trilogy (The Commitments, The Snapper, The...
Mar 30, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Tim Appelo
Third Annual Hollywood Issue Third Annual Hollywood Issue
THIS IS THE THIRD of what now threatens to become The Nation's annual Hollywood issue. Following in the footsteps of the catholic Mr. Soderbergh, whose Y2K output ran the gamut fr...
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Peter Biskind
While the Academy Slept While the Academy Slept
The strange career of the documentary Oscar.
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Carl Bromley