Movie Guide and Film Series
Friday, January 4th, 2008MOVIES.
MOVIES.
Malcolm Mays, 17, always said he’d be a film director. Now powerful people are listening.
“There Will Be Blood,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic American nightmare, arrives belching fire and brimstone and damnation to hell.
Otto Preminger became one of Hollywood’s first and most successful producer-directors. A retrospective at Film Forum celebrates his work.
The 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.”
“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.
The 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, the DVD-by-mail company with more than 7 million customers, has a new strategy that may one day make those red envelopes obsolete.
Andrew Piddington’s devastating re-enactment of events leading up to, including and immediately after the murder is taken from interviews, depositions and court transcripts.
What is it with all these movies showing New York City utterly obliterated?