Email Author Nick Pinkerton

2008 Stories by Nick Pinkerton

• Contempt: A Once-a-Century Cultural Constellation

  published March 11, 2008

  They don't make them like this anymore. Point of fact, they never did; Godard's Contempt is a once-a-century cultural constellation.... More >>

• Fighting for Life

  published March 4, 2008

  Only as political as you want it to be, Fighting for Life excises context to focus on a single wartime relationship: that of soldiers... More >>

• Penelope

  published February 26, 2008

  "A Fairytale Like No Other"? Penelope's influences are right up front—there's the Tim Burton production design (overstocking each... More >>

• Violent Saturday

  published February 26, 2008

  The reigning king of Southwestern noir until, say . . . Charley Varrick? The setting is crisply bright Bisbee, Arizona, crotched in... More >>

• Best from the Brink

  published February 5, 2008

  Now in its ninth year, the Film Society of Lincoln Center's house fete, "Film Comment Selects," continues to provide brief asylum to... More >>

• Over Her Dead Body

  published January 29, 2008

  Henry (Paul Rudd) and Kate (Eva Longoria) were about to walk down the aisle when Kate was killed in a slapstick wedding-day accident. A year... More >>

• A Walk to Beautiful

  published January 29, 2008

  Five women, isolated in their own corners of the Ethiopian hinterland, undertake a pilgrimage to a free hospital in Addis Ababa. All of them have... More >>

• How to Rob a Bank

  published January 29, 2008

  The standoff starts in medias res, with bystander Jinx (Nick Stahl) locked in a bank vault with Jessica (Erika Christensen, in Meg White... More >>

• Next Generation

  published January 22, 2008

  Plenty of boors will still be grousing over the pace of today's movies and "MTV aesthetics" when the sun supernovas. But who'd really presume to... More >>

• Beyond Polanski

  published January 15, 2008

  First, a faith in the possibility of unknown quantities is a necessity when approaching Anthology Film Archives' selection of Polish films in... More >>

• Lost in Beijing

  published January 15, 2008

  Two modern couples of distant social strata convene at crotch level in Lost in Beijing. Lin Dong (Tony Leung Ka-fai) is the moneyed owner... More >>

• Patterns of Abuse

  published January 8, 2008

  At the crosswalk the other day, I noticed something peeking out from the usual pasting of flyers on the light pole in front of me. It looked like... More >>

• First Sunday

  published January 1, 2008

  LeeJohn (Tracy Morgan) is the screw-up/schemey one; Durell (Ice Cube), the should-know-better buddy. Their latest very awful idea: breaking into a... More >>