By Rex Reed 3/13/12 7:33pm

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Detachment: Rancorous Portrayal of Noble Profession Lectures Incoherently and Fails Narrative 101

Detachment is the latest curiosity from London-born singer-songwriter-painter-film director Tony Kaye, whose first film, a violent exposé of neo-Nazism called American History X, caused a minor sensation in 1998. This one is about a month in the life of a different kind of tortured, alienated soul—the substitute teacher. It opens March 16 but like a flight to nowhere, it’s already available for preboarding on television, where you can catch it anytime on Video on Demand. Read More

By Andrew Sarris 9/27/04 12:00am

Self-Hating James Toback Asks: When Will I Be Loved?

James Toback’s When Will I Be Loved, from his own screenplay, has received an enthusiastically favorable “thumbs up” from Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper on their weekly television show and a blisteringly unfavorable critique from Robert Koehler in Variety. That my opinion is much closer to Mr. Koehler’s than Messrs. Ebert’s and Roeper’s inhibits me Read More

By George Gurley 7/01/02 12:00am

Is Burt Young Alive?

The actor Burt Young, who has been in nearly 100 movies but is best known for playing Paulie, the grumpy brother of Talia Shire in the original Rocky movie and four Rocky sequels, was sitting in a booth at Bravo Gianni on East 63rd Street, where he’s a regular.

He still had the paunch and Read More