Film

On Painting Reality On Painting Reality

We've got too many stimuli and not enough places to put them. And so, perhaps, we keep moving around the surplus excitement, sticking it onto this or that image, with the unint...

Sep 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Acting for Justice Acting for Justice

The two entertainment unions, already angered over runaway production, have tenaciously met the challenge and escalated the fight.

Sep 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Marc Cooper

Rock in a Hard Place Rock in a Hard Place

Blessed with a pitch-perfect name for his métier, Lester Bangs wrote on the subject of rock music--writing, for him, being a matter of slamming two nouns together so the...

Sep 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

‘The Ultimate Bad Review’ ‘The Ultimate Bad Review’

If our political parties insist on producing bad show business, then the least we should demand is that Hollywood make good movies.

Aug 24, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

The Flounder The Flounder

Long before I'd gone to a theater and lashed myself to a seat, I formed two expectations about The Perfect Storm.

Jul 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Smart and Smarter Smart and Smarter

In Me, Myself & Irene, Jim Carrey bullies a series of small children, gets into senseless fights (on the grounds that "he started it") and reverts hungrily to breast-feeding.

Jun 29, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Columbo This Isn’t Columbo This Isn’t

The first thing I need to explain about Bruno Dumont's Humanité shouldn't have to be said at all. It's that the film is not a whodunit.

Jun 22, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Tea Time Tea Time

Everyone knows you can't film Remembrance of Things Past, so Raúl Ruiz did it.

Jun 15, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

To Catch a Thief To Catch a Thief

As Woody Allen awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into Jackie Gleason.

Jun 1, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Village Idiots, Then & Now Village Idiots, Then & Now

To watch Lars von Trier's The Idiots is to see a dead dog rise and howl at the moon.

May 11, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

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