Email Author Nick Pinkerton

2007 Stories by Nick Pinkerton

• The Comedy of Power

  published December 25, 2007

  When Judd Apatow's sophomore directorial effort, Knocked Up, opened gangbusters this summer, it wasn't reviewed so much as it was bukkake'd... More >>

• Otto Focus

  published December 25, 2007

  Otto Preminger belongs to film history; beyond that, the consensus ends. Was he the artist-crusader who stared down the MPAA, Cardinal Spellman,... More >>

• Danny Glover, Gary Clark in Honeydripper

  published December 18, 2007

  Proprietor Pine Top Purvis (Danny Glover) has everything riding on having a break-the-bank weekend, the only chance he's got to save his club.... More >>

• This Girl's Life

  published December 11, 2007

  Persepolis is a small landmark in feature animation. Not because of technical innovation—though it moves fluidly enough, and its... More >>

• Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

  published December 11, 2007

  How do you depict the unfathomable? Can tragedy be re-created without cheapening it? These are the familiar questions passed between interviewees... More >>

• The Great Debaters

  published December 11, 2007

  First: Just register the laziness of that title. All right. The Inspiring True Story behind Great Debaters is the 1930's championship... More >>

• Arranged

  published December 4, 2007

  A film setting out to tell of the unlikely friendship between an Orthodox Jew and a devout Muslim must struggle mightily to avoid building-bridges... More >>

• The Singing Revolution

  published December 4, 2007

  The title refers to the Estonian independence movement, incubated through the country's stifled years as a Soviet satellite, when the sole outlet... More >>

• Man in the Chair

  published November 27, 2007

  Finally, stripling movie nerds get their own art-house Karate Kid! A student filmmaking contest pits troubled, working-class teen Cameron... More >>

• Revolver

  published November 27, 2007

  For any high-fivin' "Movies for Guys Who Like Movies" bros hoping for the Guy Ritchie of yore, Revolver disappoints. It's no return to... More >>

• 'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris

  published November 27, 2007

  "Jackie Paris" is a name long relegated to the memories of record collectors and jazz columnists; 'Tis Autumn modestly attempts to correct this... More >>

• The Rocket: The Legend of Rocket Richard

  published November 20, 2007

  A fussily photographed Québécois prestige job remaking Invincible for the poutine crowd, Rocket reminisces on the era... More >>

• Chronicle of an Escape

  published November 20, 2007

  A strong performance at the Argentine box office confirming its national-historical import, Chronicle of an Escape dramatizes the... More >>

• Diaspora Cinema

  published November 6, 2007

  As the name suggests, the two-week African Diaspora Film Festival's 72-film-deep program stakes claim to a vast territory—there's work here... More >>

• The Whole Shootin' Match

  published November 6, 2007

  Native Texan writer-director Eagle Pennell's allegiance was with the also-rans. In 2002, with seven films to his credit but his hustle gone, he... More >>

• Divorce, Italian Style

  published October 30, 2007

  The capstone of Film Forum's Pietro Germi mini-retrospective is the director's most popular work, his mid-career turn to wheeling commedia... More >>

• Holly

  published October 30, 2007

  Shot concurrently with a "raising awareness" documentary on child prostitution in Southeast Asia (by the tellingly named Priority Films),... More >>

• Darfur Now

  published October 23, 2007

  Can-do pep is the resonant key in this profile of six individuals, spread across three continents, working to provide relief in western Sudan.... More >>

• Beyond Boundaries: The Emergence of Croatian Cinema

  published October 23, 2007

  Currently underway, "Beyond Boundaries" intersperses a retrospective look at the golden age of Yugoslav cinema, from the '50s through the '70s,... More >>

• Good Luck, Sarkozy

  published October 16, 2007

  BAMcinématek's five-film showcase—the latest incarnation of an annual series that premieres a selection of recent French films as yet... More >>

• The Living and the Dead

  published October 16, 2007

  Championed by sausage-fingered scribes administrating websites with names like FilmDeviantz.org, this Brit product, set amid the degenerate... More >>

• Epic Proportions

  published October 9, 2007

  A four-chapter, nearly eight-hour rendition of Tolstoy's Napoleonic-era opus, War and Peace represents more than a prestige... More >>

• A Young Mongol Herder and a Livestock Plague

  published October 2, 2007

  Bagi (Batzul Khayankhyarvaa, a non-professional actor) is a young Mongol herder sharing a yurt with his depleted family on their ancestral... More >>

• James Gray's We Own the Night

  published October 2, 2007

  Of all the members of a generation of filmmakers who wanted to be the next Scorsese, James Gray was different: He wanted to be the next Scorsese,... More >>

• Gregory Wilson’s The Girl Next Door

  published October 2, 2007

  Among the shocking revelations awaiting the viewer of Gregory Wilson’s The Girl Next Door: Beneath the 1950’s seemingly placid... More >>