Movie Guide and Film Series
January 4th, 2008MOVIES.
Based on a True Story
January 4th, 2008Malcolm Mays, 17, always said he’d be a film director. Now powerful people are listening.
An American Primitive, Forged in a Crucible of Blood and Oil
January 4th, 2008“There Will Be Blood,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic American nightmare, arrives belching fire and brimstone and damnation to hell.
A Tyrant With a Focus on Love’s Uncertainty
January 4th, 2008Otto Preminger became one of Hollywood’s first and most successful producer-directors. A retrospective at Film Forum celebrates his work.
One Filmmaker’s Vivid Tales of Fathers and Other Strangers
January 4th, 2008The career of Paul Thomas Anderson, whose first four features will be screened this weekend at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, is on the minds of cinephiles with the arrival of his fifth movie, “There Will Be Blood.”
Sunshine Daydream, With Pointed Point of View
January 4th, 2008“Smiley Face,” about a pot-addled would-be actress stumbling through a long, weird day in Los Angeles, is a contradiction in terms: a “stoner” comedy with a purpose.
You Go to the Movie Theater, and an Opera Breaks Out
January 4th, 2008The Metropolitan Opera’s high-definition transmissions to movie theaters add crucial elements of live theater and collective excitement to the experience of opera on screen.
Netflix Partners With LG to Bring Movies Straight to TV
January 4th, 2008Netflix, the DVD-by-mail company with more than 7 million customers, has a new strategy that may one day make those red envelopes obsolete.
John Lennon’s Death Revisited Through the Words of His Killer
January 4th, 2008Andrew Piddington’s devastating re-enactment of events leading up to, including and immediately after the murder is taken from interviews, depositions and court transcripts.
The Urge to Destroy New York on Film
January 4th, 2008What is it with all these movies showing New York City utterly obliterated?