9
Running time 79 minutes
Written by Pamela Pettler
Directed by Shane Acker
Starring Elijah Wood, Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connolly, Crispin Glover
In 2004, a UCLA film student named Shane Acker created an 11-minute animated short called 9 that people lost their minds over. It earned him Read More
Heath Ledger was in the middle of shooting The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus when he died last week. Since then, director Terry Gilliam has been scrambling to find a way to finish the movie. Despite earlier reports that the director, who has helmed 1975′s Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Fear and Loathing in Read More
Alejandro Agresti’s The Lake House, from a screenplay by David Auburn, is based on a Korean film, Il Mare, which I have not seen and cannot really imagine. This is to say that The Lake House is longer on a kind of furtive charm than on narrative logic. How, people are asking in and out Read More
Spike Lee’s bank-heist thriller Inside Man has two things going for it: better actors than usual and a slicker look. Otherwise, it’s no different from nine out of 10 other preposterous, contrived, confusingly written, unevenly directed, pointless and forgettable junk films we’ve been getting these days. Among the bankrupt casualties you’ll find Denzel Washington, Clive Read More
I’m reluctant to express disappointment with Christopher Plummer’s performance of Lear in Jonathan Miller’s production of the vast, impossible tragedy at Lincoln Center. At 76, the great classical actor has put himself to the fire in the most unrelenting role Shakespeare ever wrote, and all who play the mad king-it is said-are bound to fall Read More
Michael Mann’s The Insider , from a screenplay by Eric Roth and Mr. Mann, based on an article by Marie Brenner, “The Man Who Knew Too Much,” has been trivialized in the public’s mind by all the tabloid gossip about what Mike Wallace thought of Christopher Plummer’s screen approximation, what Don Hewitt felt about Philip Read More
