Email Author Eric Hynes

2010 Stories by Eric Hynes

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  Year in Film: Culture High

  published December 22, 2010

  There’s no stubbornness quite like New York City’s. Eulogize a scene only to watch another one rise. Expect old institutions to die... More >>

• What Is Shoah?

  published December 8, 2010

  Returning to movie screens a full generation after its initial 1985 theatrical run, Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah has in many ways become... More >>

• Family Ties, Unbound, in Tokyo Story

  published November 24, 2010

  The fact that Yasujirô Ozu’s Tokyo Story (1953) is one of the great achievements in cinematic history might be motivation... More >>

• Love & Other Drugs Desperate for Your Attention

  published November 24, 2010

  From a jaunty Spin Doctors–scored opening to a teary, Regina Spektor–cued finale, Love & Other Drugs will switch to any style,... More >>

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  So Much More Than Just the Facts in DOC NYC

  published November 3, 2010

  New York plays host to dozens of film festivals great and small, so it’s hard to make room—psychic or practical—for yet another.... More >>

• Where Art and Life Intersect, Waste Land

  published October 27, 2010

  A fascinating look at the complex intersections of art and charity, reality and perception, Waste Land follows celebrated New York... More >>

• A Father Kinda Deals With the Looming Empty Nest in The Kids Grow Up

  published October 27, 2010

  It’s hard to fault Doug Block for being too attached to the past. He’s got an archive of footage drawing him back, and a portable DV... More >>

• The Stephin Merritt Mystery Unsolved in Strange Powers

  published October 27, 2010

  Demanding of recognition but ever pushing back at attention, Stephin Merritt is a droopy-eyed Marlon Brando of art pop. A notoriously difficult... More >>

• Wanna Buy a Lung? Making a Mockery of Organ Trafficking in Inhale

  published October 20, 2010

  Ripped from the headlines and sensationalized for your would-be pleasure, Inhale uses the appalling phenomenon of illegal organ... More >>

• John Lennon Gets His Very Own Corny Biopic in Nowhere Boy

  published October 6, 2010

  Sam Taylor-Wood’s oddly straightforward biopic about the juvenile John Lennon concludes, as well it should, with the singer’s... More >>

• So Cool to be Crazy in It's Kind of a Funny Story

  published October 6, 2010

  A film seemingly designed to get every New York City honors student face-punched at college, It’s Kind of a Funny Story chronicles... More >>

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  The Medium Is the Message in David Fincher's Present-Tense Social Network

  published September 22, 2010

  Is the world moving so fast that we’re actually memorializing, in movie form, the year 2003? The events of The Social Network, the... More >>

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  Godard's Long Argument

  published September 22, 2010

  When Jean-Luc Godard's In Praise of Love closed out the 2001 New York Film Festival, many in Lincoln Center’s sold-out Alice Tully... More >>

• Introducing Frankie Latina's Badass Exploitation in Modus Operandi

  published September 8, 2010

  A week after Robert Rodriguez's Machete brought the grindhouse to the multiplex, a far better exploitation derivation slithers out from... More >>

• The Limits of Ripping Off Terrence Malick on Display in The Afterlight

  published September 8, 2010

  Much as aspiring fiction writers should be withheld from reading Raymond Carver, young filmmakers should be strongly cautioned against putting... More >>

• Going Hollywood

  published September 1, 2010

  Say goodbye to single-camera setups and 1,000 hours of footage; say hello to crane shots and dick-joke quotas. With Going the Distance... More >>

• In Praise of Andrew V. McLaglen and His Washed-Up A-List Casts

  published August 11, 2010

  With The Expendables, Sylvester Stallone once again puts his sexagenarian body through the action-movie paces. Except, this time, he's... More >>

• First Time's the Charm for Animal Kingdom Director David Michod

  published August 4, 2010

  Debut films usually come with qualifications. They have limited budgets and scopes. They get called "small," patted on the head, and judged on... More >>

• Get Degraded Early and Often in The Disappearance of Alice Creed

  published August 4, 2010

  In suspense films about confinement, characters may be kidnapped or tortured, but the real captive is the viewer. We're stuck in our seats,... More >>

• Papa Paparazzo Ron Galella Gets His Close-up in Smash His Camera

  published July 27, 2010

  With his lumpy face, Bronx accent, and streetwise hitch, Ron Galella comes on like a fringe player in some '70s New York B-movie—which,... More >>

• Victor Nunez Returns With New Family Drama Spoken Word

  published July 20, 2010

  Scarcely heard from since he helmed two mid-1990s indie hits (Ruby in Paradise, Ulee's Gold), Victor Nunez's new family drama... More >>

• Mystery Without a Mystery, The Contenders Is DOA

  published July 13, 2010

  This slice of wooden wannabe Strindberg begins with what's meant as a thrilling opening-line teaser: "When did you realize she was dead?" But... More >>

• Red Alert: The War Within

  published July 6, 2010

  A ripped-from-the-headlines drama about India's Naxalite-Maoist insurgency, Red Alert: The War Within arrives amid a recent surge of... More >>

• Toys Are Us in Toy Story 3

  published June 15, 2010

  Fifteen years after ushering in a new era of CGI animation, and 11 years after a colossally successful pre-millennial sequel, the Toy... More >>

• It's a Small, Small World

  published May 25, 2010

  In 2003, after more than a decade of producing films for Disney's adult imprints Touchstone, Hollywood, and Buena Vista Pictures, Jerry... More >>