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2000 Stories by Michael Atkinson

• Performance Anxieties

  published March 14, 2000

  A beguiling, navel-focused freakazoid as original and mysterious as Sundance award winners are ever likely to get, Scott King's Treasure Island... More >>

• Party Over, Whoops, Out of Time

  published March 7, 2000

  Paling beside La Sept Arte's "2000 as Seen By . . . " series standouts Don McKellar's Last Night and Tsai Ming-liang's The Hole,... More >>

• Seven Children, No Organisms

  published February 29, 2000

  One would hope that Anjelica Huston, who grew up in the remote fields of County Galway, would have the bitter reality of Irish proles in her... More >>

• Skin Flick

  published February 15, 2000

  "Look who it is—Mr. Jigaboo!" is one of the first spittings from the mouth of David Lee (David Lee Wilson), an L.A. skinhead hitting the... More >>

• Stabs In the Dark; 'Mad Max' Returns

  published February 8, 2000

  Deliver us from midwinter. Distributor shelves are cleared, projectors choke on misassembled junk, tumbleweeds haunt the empty theater corridors.... More >>

• Young Frankenheimer

  published February 8, 2000

  John Frankenheimer is precisely the type of erratic Hollywood auteur who benefits from a selective retro, rather than an exhaustive career survey... More >>

• Frederick Wiseman's Fair Game

  published February 1, 2000

  Our secular pope of give-them-enough-rope docs, Frederick Wiseman, has been observing the American drama for 33 years now, and the current retro... More >>

• Nolte and Bridges Flog a Dread Horse

  published February 1, 2000

  At this late date, Sam Shepard's brand of symbol-strewn American Dreamism seems to require a little electroshock, and that could be said twice... More >>

• A 30-Year Chronicle of Daily Life

  published January 25, 2000

  If Errol Morris bids to be poet-philosopher of the American extremities, then Frederick Wiseman is our town-hall archivist, a conscientious,... More >>

• The Year in Underachievements

  published January 11, 2000

  Now in their third year, the annual Village Voice Hidekis were originally defined as toasting "non-achievement" in movies, and with their... More >>

• A New Director Rediscovers His Native Nowhere

  published January 4, 2000

  A still-warm slice of American heart-meat, Julian Goldberger's Trans does a simple thing movies no longer find easy to do: bushwhacks and... More >>

• The Corn Blows at Midnight

  published January 4, 2000

  A circumstantial genre (determined after-the-fact on its audience being punchy, bleary-eyed, and thoroughly snotted), midnight movies live on at... More >>