Daily Briefing. SF Indiefest — and a Tsunami of Projects in the Works
David HudsonAlso: Jason Reitman stages a reading of Reservoir Dogs with an all-black cast.
Also: Jason Reitman stages a reading of Reservoir Dogs with an all-black cast.
The Ferronis take our end of the year double feature extravaganza to delirious heights.
Also: European films at Yale, low-budget exploitation in San Francisco, awards nominations, interviews and remembrances.
“Shapeless and turgid and ham-handed, so rich in bad lines and worse readings.”
Tilda and Lynne need to talk about their next projects; Clint used to talk about his old ones.
I watched some movies last week at the cinema that fit like clothing, one at the New York Film Festival (Clint Eastwood's Hereafter, which opens today), one now playing in theaters (Woody Allen's You
"Clint Eastwood crafts a Babel all his own with Hereafter, a trifurcated tale of death, grief, and the great beyond that finds the director succumbing to eye-rolling corniness," writes Nick Schager
"Clint Eastwood's Hereafter opens with the most exciting, expertly assembled flood scene in movie history," declares Time's Richard Corliss. "A tsunami gathers force in its path toward an Asian beach
"You're giving him a pass because he's..." "Oh I hate it when X gets a pass from the critics." You've read, or heard, complaints such as this before. Indeed, in this era of enhanced noise-making capabilities
"There is no Hollywood movie more insouciantly amoral than Ernst Lubitsch's 1932 Trouble in Paradise, screening at LACMA on July 9 to open the four-week series Laughter in Paradise: The American
Clint Eastwood was born on May 31, 1930. "Being underestimated is, for some people, a misfortune. For Eastwood, it became a weapon." David Denby in a New Yorker profile in March: Eastwood has
Following a roundup of reviews of films opening this weekend, a look ahead at some of the titles rolling out through Christmas, including, of course, the season's big event movie. "Philadelphia for