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  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    Nicole Kidman Pees On Zac Efron!

    In Moulin Rouge, Nicole Kidman famously said "oui-oui!" but nowadays she's cooing "Wee-wee!" The Oscar winner appears in Lee Daniels' The Paperboy, a hothouse, grindhouse, hyperactive period piece which just got a mixed review at Cannes. It's apparently full of all kinds of outrageous behavior, an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2012

    Cannes Film Festival: Did Berlusconi Turn Italy Into a Reality Show?

    Today in unexpected Cannes headline news: a convicted felon turns in one of the best performances at the festival thus far (and it's not Roman Polanski -- rimshot! -- who was the subject of a softball vanity documentary which screened here earlier in the week, and isn't really worth talking abou ... More >>

  • Film

    June 8, 2011

    Social Work: Three Women Attempt to Understand One Argentinean Village in The Lips

    Today in unexpected Cannes headline news: a convicted felon turns in one of the best performances at the festival thus far (and it's not Roman Polanski -- rimshot! -- who was the subject of a softball vanity documentary which screened here earlier in the week, and isn't really worth talking abou ... More >>

  • Film

    April 13, 2011

    The New New Wave Has Arrived in 'Free Radicals'

    Today in unexpected Cannes headline news: a convicted felon turns in one of the best performances at the festival thus far (and it's not Roman Polanski -- rimshot! -- who was the subject of a softball vanity documentary which screened here earlier in the week, and isn't really worth talking abou ... More >>

  • Film

    March 23, 2011

    Denis Cote Looks at a Blocked Quebecois in Curling

    Today in unexpected Cannes headline news: a convicted felon turns in one of the best performances at the festival thus far (and it's not Roman Polanski -- rimshot! -- who was the subject of a softball vanity documentary which screened here earlier in the week, and isn't really worth talking abou ... More >>

  • Film

    March 9, 2011

    Truffaut's Unjustly Neglected The Soft Skin Ripe for Reappraisal

    Today in unexpected Cannes headline news: a convicted felon turns in one of the best performances at the festival thus far (and it's not Roman Polanski -- rimshot! -- who was the subject of a softball vanity documentary which screened here earlier in the week, and isn't really worth talking abou ... More >>

  • Film

    February 23, 2011

    Keeping the Faith in Of Gods and Men and Diary of a Country Priest

    Today in unexpected Cannes headline news: a convicted felon turns in one of the best performances at the festival thus far (and it's not Roman Polanski -- rimshot! -- who was the subject of a softball vanity documentary which screened here earlier in the week, and isn't really worth talking abou ... More >>

  • Film

    February 9, 2011

    Poetry: A Perfectly Performed Ode to a Senescent Woman

    Today in unexpected Cannes headline news: a convicted felon turns in one of the best performances at the festival thus far (and it's not Roman Polanski -- rimshot! -- who was the subject of a softball vanity documentary which screened here earlier in the week, and isn't really worth talking abou ... More >>

  • Film

    January 26, 2011

    Ambisexual Hotties Go Sky-High in Kaboom

    Today in unexpected Cannes headline news: a convicted felon turns in one of the best performances at the festival thus far (and it's not Roman Polanski -- rimshot! -- who was the subject of a softball vanity documentary which screened here earlier in the week, and isn't really worth talking abou ... More >>

  • Film

    January 19, 2011

    Soap-Opera Intrigue in The Housemaid Remake

    Today in unexpected Cannes headline news: a convicted felon turns in one of the best performances at the festival thus far (and it's not Roman Polanski -- rimshot! -- who was the subject of a softball vanity documentary which screened here earlier in the week, and isn't really worth talking abou ... More >>

  • Film

    December 22, 2010

    Grief Gone Mad in Secret Sunshine

    Today in unexpected Cannes headline news: a convicted felon turns in one of the best performances at the festival thus far (and it's not Roman Polanski -- rimshot! -- who was the subject of a softball vanity documentary which screened here earlier in the week, and isn't really worth talking abou ... More >>

  • Film

    November 10, 2010

    Isabelle Huppert Will Not Be Defined

    Today in unexpected Cannes headline news: a convicted felon turns in one of the best performances at the festival thus far (and it's not Roman Polanski -- rimshot! -- who was the subject of a softball vanity documentary which screened here earlier in the week, and isn't really worth talking abou ... More >>

  • Film

    October 13, 2010

    From Dawn to Dusk With the Jackal in Carlos

    Today in unexpected Cannes headline news: a convicted felon turns in one of the best performances at the festival thus far (and it's not Roman Polanski -- rimshot! -- who was the subject of a softball vanity documentary which screened here earlier in the week, and isn't really worth talking abou ... More >>

  • Film

    June 29, 2010

    Great Directors: As Asinine as the Title Suggests

    Today in unexpected Cannes headline news: a convicted felon turns in one of the best performances at the festival thus far (and it's not Roman Polanski -- rimshot! -- who was the subject of a softball vanity documentary which screened here earlier in the week, and isn't really worth talking abou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2010

    This Week In The Voice: The 2010 Obie Awards

    ​Every year, The Village Voice holds their own awards ceremony for theater free from the pomp, circumstance, and promotional intent towards profit that most other Dog and Pony extravaganzas do: The Obies. And the awesomeness that was this year's was no exception. Voice theater critic and Obie ... More >>

  • Film

    March 24, 2010

    Our Guide to the Greatest of the ND/NF's Latest

    (Because newer is not always better)

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2009

    Dirty Martini Comes Clean!

    ​One of the zingiest presences on the scene, Dirty Martini--aka "the chairman of the broad"--is a Rubensian beauty who knows how to shake it up (literally) while stirring an audience so fervently they're afraid to get up because the seat is wet. I gave the good-time gal a call (and no, it was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    The 'Corked!' Trailer: Finally, A 'Spinal Tap' for the Oenophile Set

    The mockumentary Corked! was screened at the Sonoma Film Festival earlier this year and will be shown in San Jose next week. There are plans to screen it in San Francisco and other cities around the world, including a possible New York screening, but no dates have been set as yet. "We're talking ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2009

    Week in Review: "I Am the Best Filmmaker in the World."

    Nate "Igor" SmithFun times at Roxy Cottontail's party. This is what Zach's birthday dinner looked like too. In the week that both Zach and Roxy Cottontail celebrated their birthdays, Rob posted a great moment in Wu-based subway-ad vandalism that became a whole shitload of peoples' Facebook profile ... More >>

  • Film

    April 22, 2009

    What is the Tribeca Film Fest?

    Staffers flee. New blood moves in. And still the question remains.

  • Film

    April 1, 2009

    Sergei Dvortsevoy Has His Way with Camels and Shepherds Alike in Tulpan

    Staffers flee. New blood moves in. And still the question remains.

  • Film

    September 23, 2008

    New York Film Festival 2008

    Staffers flee. New blood moves in. And still the question remains.

  • Film

    August 5, 2008

    Films of the Dardenne Brothers

    Anthology ignores the early days, but still pays worthy tribute to the Belgian brothers

  • Film

    April 1, 2008

    Jellyfish: An Israeli Movie With Neither Politics Nor Religion

    Tel Aviv's lonely move in and out of each other's lives in this poingnant indie

  • Film

    February 26, 2008

    15 French Premieres in "Rendez-Vous" Fest

    From the old guard to the young gun, a welcome cinematic winterlude

  • Film

    October 2, 2007

    James Gray's We Own the Night

    From the old guard to the young gun, a welcome cinematic winterlude

  • Film

    August 21, 2007

    Crowded House

    More movies, fewer screens, and a new game in town means cutthroat competition for indie-film distributors

  • Film

    July 31, 2007

    Redeeming Feature

    Forget how the angel fell at Cannes by revisiting Wong Kar Wai at his best

  • Film

    June 12, 2007

    Mighty Heart, Mightier Spotlight

    Bigger than any single tragedy, Angelina Jolie kidnaps Daniel Pearl's movie

  • Film

    June 5, 2007

    Reality Czech in Aisle Nine

    Doc dupes entire nation, makes trenchant case against consumer culture

  • Film

    May 29, 2007

    The Revolution Must Be Televised

    Debating Romanian independence on the boob tube

  • Film

    March 27, 2007

    Fassbinder's 15-Hour Masterpiece

    Plus Best of 2006 and Taxi tales

  • Film

    February 27, 2007

    Threat-Level: Killer Tadpole

    Korean box-office monster emerges from the Han River to slime us stateside

  • Film

    March 15, 2005

    Die Hard With a Vengeance

    Best served cold, Park Chanwook's brutal revenge feast comes with a side of live octopus

  • Film

    March 1, 2005

    Play It Again, Siam

    Gods and monsters: Thai fest balances imports, local wares

  • Film

    February 22, 2005

    Traveling Film Festival Brings Third-World Movies to U.S.

    Gods and monsters: Thai fest balances imports, local wares

  • NYC Life

    August 5, 2003

    The French Inhale

    Gods and monsters: Thai fest balances imports, local wares

  • Film

    May 20, 2003

    Blue Crush

    It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Girl

  • Film

    March 4, 2003

    Pardon Our French

    Housekeepers, Bullfighters, Demonlovers

  • NYC Life

    June 11, 2002

    Le Freak, C'est Chic

    Housekeepers, Bullfighters, Demonlovers

  • NYC Life

    April 30, 2002

    Red Badges of Courage

    Shopping in the Spirit of May Day

  • Film

    February 12, 2002

    Rotterdam’s Desert Storms

    Tigers, Copulating Horses, Camel(s)

  • Film

    June 26, 2001

    Webbed Feat

    Tigers, Copulating Horses, Camel(s)

  • Dance

    April 17, 2001

    From Louis XIV to Le Hip-Hop

    French Choreographers Transform American Moves

  • Film

    February 6, 2001

    Unheavenly Creatures

    French Choreographers Transform American Moves

  • Film

    October 17, 2000

    Weather Forecasts

    French Choreographers Transform American Moves

  • Film

    May 30, 2000

    Calm Within the Storm

    Edward Yang's Kin Flick

  • Film

    March 7, 2000

    All About His Mother

    Peter Mullan’s Debut: An Orphan No More

  • Film

    March 30, 1999

    Talk of Angels

    A French Director's Star-Making Debut

  • Film

    November 24, 1998

    Bugging Out

    A French Director's Star-Making Debut

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