The movie year of 2006 is far from over, despite what the calendar says—at least as far as this reviewer is concerned. Anywhere from 522 to 540 new feature films were exhibited locally this year, depending on who is doing the counting and compiling. Apparently, more big movies were released in the month of December Read More
Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, from his own screenplay, based on the 1977 novel by Philip K. Dick, is rendered in the same rotoscoping process that Mr. Linklater employed in Waking Life (2001). It’s a means of expression resembling the eye-popping, hyper-android school of Japanese animation known as anime, except that it’s actually modeled on Read More
Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, from his own screenplay, based on the 1977 novel by Philip K. Dick, is rendered in the same rotoscoping process that Mr. Linklater employed in Waking Life (2001). It’s a means of expression resembling the eye-popping, hyper-android school of Japanese animation known as anime, except that it’s actually modeled on 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
Either I’m getting soft in the heart or I’m getting long in the tooth. Probably both. Anyway, I’m getting used to Keanu Reeves. He can’t act, but his blank-blackboard expressions and his narcoleptic demeanor while mumbling lines in his sleep have become as so-what routine as Madonna’s push-ahead self-promotion. And speaking of routine, his shared Read More
Either I’m getting soft in the heart or I’m getting long in the tooth. Probably both. Anyway, I’m getting used to Keanu Reeves. He can’t act, but his blank-blackboard expressions and his narcoleptic demeanor while mumbling lines in his sleep have become as so-what routine as Madonna’s push-ahead self-promotion. And speaking of routine, his shared Read More
Keanu Reeves’ house. Photo via The New York Times (link below).
Keanu Reeves’ house looks like a mausoleum; Mariah Carey wears halter-tops to funerals.
These things and more we learned, assuming the brokers aren’t goosing the truth a bit, in tomorrow’s Real Estate section of The New York Times.
Wrapping up the year on film, they saved one of the best for last. As war movies go, Hollywood has always treated the Civil War-the only homemade war ever fought on American soil-with boredom, disinterest and disdain. Except for Gone with the Wind , the War Between the States is like Bette Davis in the Read More
When it comes to housing, Keanu Reeves has always been a vocal proponent of living out of suitcases at hotels, as opposed to putting down permanent roots in any one particular place.
“There’s something about me that enjoys the fact that I can move around freely and not have any material things which tie me Read More
Andy and Larry Wachowski’s The Matrix Reloaded has opened with so much cult-driven advance fervor online that a reviewer who presumes to evaluate the film would seem to require degrees in philosophy, theology, cosmology, computer science and metaphysical cybernetics-or is it cybernetical metaphysics? I’m tempted to dismiss what some of my esteemed colleagues regard as Read More
