Archive for March 2007
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
March 27, 2007, 8:34 amFor Jack Smith (1932-1989), Atlantis was both the idea of a fantastical utopia and the reality of the Lower East Side apartment in which this prophetic artist staged baroque, improvisational multi-hour one-man theatrical productions, often with a cast of stuffed animals and dolls. An avant-garde photographer, filmmaker, actor, performance artist, and all around “flaming creature,” Smith has been credited as a major influence by Fellini, Godard and Jarmusch. In Mary Jordan’s mesmerizing portrait, he fairly jumps off the screen: a combination mystic, comedian and madman, a protean artist whose vast energy and creativity were undermined (or perversely fed?) by the poverty of his day-to-day life and his paranoid misgivings about just about everything. If there is a heaven for the wonderfully bizarre, Jack Smith resides there, accompanied by his patron saint, Maria Montez.
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Whole New Thing
March 27, 2007, 8:33 am“Whole New Thing” centers on precocious 13-year-old Emerson Thorsen (Aaron Webber), home-schooled by hippie parents Kaya and Rog in rural Nova Scotia. When enrolled in the local junior high, Emerson develops a crush on English teacher Don Grant (Daniel MacIvor), a gay man stuck in a life of perpetual adolescence. Produced by veteran film company executive Kelly Bray and award-winning producer Camelia Freiberg (”The Five Senses,” “Exotica,” “The Sweet Hereafter”), “Whole New Thing” is the second feature film from director and co-writer Amnon Buchbinder. Buchbinder’s previous film, “Fishing Trip” (1998) garnered a Genie Award (Canadian equivalent of the Oscars ®) as well as a Toronto International Film Festival berth.
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The TV Set
March 27, 2007, 8:32 amA hair-raising comedy of art and compromise, “The TV Set” follows an idealistic writer (Duchovny) as he tries to navigate his TV pilot down the mine-laden path from script through production to the madness of prime-time scheduling — all while trying to stay true to his vision. Along the way he has to juggle the agendas of a headstrong network president (Weaver), volatile young stars, a pregnant wife and an ever-optimistic personal manager.
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Live Free or Die
March 14, 2007, 8:15 pmThe story of a pair of dimwitted criminals on the run for a murder they only think they committed.
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The Hawk is Dying
March 14, 2007, 8:14 pm“The Hawk is Dying” stars Academy Award® nominee Paul Giamatti (”Sideways”) as a Gainesville Florida auto upholsterer who attempts to transcend his mundane life by taming a wild, red-tailed hawk. He chases his passion while caring for his autistic nephew, played by Michael Pitt (”Last Days”) and becoming caught up in an abstract and uneasy relationship with a young psychology student played by Academy Award® nominee Michelle Williams (”Brokeback Mountain”). “The Hawk is Dying” is Julian Goldberger’s second feature film following “Trans,” his critically successful feature debut. “Hawk” was selected in competition in both the Sundance Film Festival and Director’s Fortnight in Cannes 2006.
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Blades of Glory
March 14, 2007, 8:14 pmWhen rival figure skaters Chazz Michael Michaels (Will Ferrell) and Jimmy MacElroy (Jon Heder) go ballistic in an embarrassing, no-holds-barred fight at the World Championships, they are stripped of their gold medals and banned from the sport for life. Now, three-and-a-half years on, they’ve found a loophole that will allow them to compete: if they can put aside their differences, they can skate together – in pairs’ figure skating.
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