The laziest thing about biopics is that they tend to neglect establishing what’s so special about their subject matter, simply because they happen to be about a famous person. The abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock, who had an acclaimed film made about his life in 2000, Pollock, starring and directed by Ed Harris, may have […]
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Cultural critic James Wolcott, on the new film critic:
"Film critics today have become these rabid completists... They feel like that with festivals, they have to see everything, no matter how minor. Part of it is bragging rights. The other part is that the only thing that feeds into their movie writing is other movies."
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Saturday, October 24th, 2009
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Shadow Billionaire
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
Tags: 2000, Adam Lippe, alcoholic, Alexis Spraic, Amy Madigan, Andy Kaufman, biopic, Bob Zmuda, court, Danny De Vito, DHL, distribution problems, DNA, Ed Harris, Heartbeeps, Howard Hughes, illegitimate child, Jackson Pollock, Jim Carrey, journalist, Larry Hillblom, Larry Karaszewski, lawyer, low budget, Man on the Moon, Melvin and Howard, Milos Forman, movie review, painter, Paul Giamatti, pederast, pedopheilia, Philippines, plane crash, Pollock, prostitution, RegrettableSincerity.com, Saipan, Scott Alexander, slave, statutory rape, stripper, Taxi, teenager, The Aviator, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Vietnam, virgin, will
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Whenever there’s a genre parody or ode to a specific era of films, such as Black Dynamite’s mocking of Blaxploitation films or Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, the second half of Grindhouse, the danger is that the film might fall into the trap of either being condescending without any particular insight, or so faithful that it becomes the very flawed thing it is emulating.
Black Dynamite has nothing new to say about Blaxploitation films, it just does a decent job of copying what an inept [...]
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On Cold Fish:
Though the 16 year old me described the 1994 weepie Angie, starring Geena Davis as a Brooklyn mother raising her new baby alone, as “maudlin and melodramatic,” Roger Ebert, during his TV review, referring to the multitude of soap-operaish problems piling up on the titular character, suggested that it was only in Hollywood where Angie would get a happy ending. “If they made this movie in France, Angie would have shot herself.”
Well Cold Fish was made in Japan, where Angie would have shot herself and that would have been the happy ending.