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2009 Stories by Nick Pinkerton

• Died Young, Stayed Pretty Documents Poster Art Culture

  published July 15, 2009

  Eileen Yaghoobian's doc on the loose federation of North American rock poster artists is splatter-structured, in supposed solidarity with the... More >>

• "A Willie Nelson 4th of July" at Anthology

  published July 1, 2009

  In 1973, Willie Nelson—idealist, crass opportunist, and periodic genius—threw a July 4th "picnic" jamboree, envisioned as a... More >>

• Family Catharsis in the Courtroom in My Sister's Keeper

  published June 24, 2009

  Eleven-year-old Anna Fitzgerald's parents didn't just plan for her—they customized her in utero, with the specific end of providing spare... More >>

• HEYANewfest

  published June 17, 2009

  That BAMcinématek's inaugural 16-day festival looks to bring in something other than the mortuary crowds of Manhattan moviegoers is... More >>

• Imagine That Survives Off Eddie Murphy and Poop Jokes

  published June 10, 2009

  Eddie Murphy is a Denver investment consultant, Evan, with a workaholic schedule that leaves little space for his seven-year-old daughter,... More >>

• Raimi's Drag Me to Hell Romps Back to Evil Dead Territory

  published May 27, 2009

  Sam Raimi wants to go home again. Often a drifting virtuoso in the years before finding his Spider-Man gig, with Drag Me to Hell... More >>

• Tribute to Youssef Chahine at BAM

  published May 27, 2009

  Egypt's prolific cinematic ambassador, who died last year at age 82, Youssef Chahine is remembered with an eight-film eulogy.... More >>

• Save Yourself! (From McG's Terminator)

  published May 20, 2009

  Both warning and advertisement, the Terminator films are technophobic teases, selling tickets by promising this decade's model of... More >>

• Kabei: Our Mother Zooms in on One Family in Rising Sun Japan

  published May 20, 2009

  Kabei, an unpretentious and old-fashioned (that is, crisply legible) domestic drama, shows how Rising Sun Japan's sense of national... More >>

• Big Man Japan Goofs on Monster Movie with Low-Comic Grotesques

  published May 13, 2009

  Hitoshi Matsumoto, one-half a legendary Japanese comic duo, debuts as big-screen director/star with this goof on the rubber monster movie line,... More >>

• Freak Show: Tod Browning Festival at Film Forum

  published May 6, 2009

  Warm-weather good vibrations threaten New York City—as an antidote, every Monday for the next five weeks, the Film Forum is offering Tod... More >>

• Flower in the Pocket Requires an NPR Tote for a Brain

  published May 6, 2009

  Not showing anything like an authorial personality means never having to say you're sorry. Lazy "realism" is even good for an award or two on... More >>

• "The Late Film" at BAM

  published April 29, 2009

  An exclusive program of filmmakers' late-in-life films seems counterintuitive at first. Conventional wisdom says that in careers not... More >>

• Winners of the Prix Louis-Delluc at BAM

  published April 15, 2009

  Like all critics, the presenters of the Prix Louis-Delluc periodically screw the pooch. Prime example: 1967, when period titillation... More >>

• First Light: Satyajit Ray From the Apu Trilogy to the Calcutta Trilogy

  published April 15, 2009

  A welcome side effect of the Indian subcontinent's recently raised profile, Satyajit Ray's films are back in New York City, where his 1955... More >>

• 'Pictures From Life's Many Sides: The Films of Jim McBride'

  published April 8, 2009

  At the end of the '60s, there came a little burst of self-reflexive films from the first generation of young Americans raised staring at... More >>

• An Unlikely Weapon: The Eddie Adams Story

  published April 8, 2009

  AP Photo hall-of-famer Eddie Adams is a textbook immortal for one Pulitzer frame: his snap of South Vietnamese General Nguyen Ngoc Loan's... More >>

• Chabon Enthusiasts Will Find Much to Disdain in The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

  published April 8, 2009

  After a history of preproduction false starts, Michael Chabon's 1988 debut novel gets its promised widescreen adaptation by Dodgeball... More >>

• Diluted Nostalgia Marks Alien Trespass

  published April 1, 2009

  What's most admirable about onetime X-Files producer R.W. Goodwin's Alien Trespass, a simulacra of the '50s flying-saucer flick,... More >>

• Matt Aselton's Gigantic Another for the Indie Comedy Heap

  published April 1, 2009

  I don't remember ever wanting to just haul out and punch a movie before Gigantic. Interrupting every scene with a proud little fart of... More >>

• 'Jules Dassin Tribute' at Film Forum: Duty-Bound Righteousness, Baggy-Pants Broadness

  published March 25, 2009

  Ages ago, Jules Dassin was acting in politicized New York Yiddish theater—later playing opposite wife Melina Mercouri in 1960's Never... More >>

• The 39th Edition of "New Directors/New Films"

  published March 25, 2009

  Born in 1972, the MOMA/Lincoln Center co-production "New Directors/New Films" (March 25 through April 5) nudges a fresh flock of hatchling... More >>

• The Films of Robert Mulligan at Walter Reade

  published March 18, 2009

  The Nickel Ride is a seldom-seen drama of white-collar workaday criminal drudgery to make you believe the best of '70s cinema will never... More >>

• The Last House on the Left's Exploitation is Quaintly Nostalgic

  published March 11, 2009

  "That was the most offensive display of sexualized violence I have ever seen," one wilting fellow in need of a camphor hankie was... More >>

• "Focus on IFC Films" at BAM

  published March 4, 2009

  Storied 44-year-old distributor New Yorker Films defaulted into dust this week. The passing was announced on their website—seemingly... More >>