The same characters may be around from the Italian film The Last Kiss, but they’re highly unbearable in its sequel, Kiss Me Again:
→Admittedly, I quite enjoyed Gabriele Muccino’s 2002 effort, The Last Kiss, finding it entertaining despite its pretentiousness and derivative style.
Tags: Open Roads, Italian, The Lask Kiss, Before Sunset, The House Next Door
EssayAs part of the Open Roads: New Italian Cinema program by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York, I take a look at the tangent universes of One Life, Maybe Two:
→Tags: Open Roads, Italian, Kieslowski, Tom Tykwer, The House Next Door
EssayI bid adieu to SXSW 2010 with three—count ‘em!—reviews of films with live performances of originals scores, but not before I take a look at the latest from Aaron Katz, Cold Weather:
→Tags: SXSW, Aaron Katz, Detective, Silent Films, Live Score, The House Next Door
EssayThe less-than-stellar Elektra Luxx fails to eliminate the bad taste left from the Election Day documentary 11/4/08:
→The director of 11/4/08 states that he enlisted the help of friends around the world to film their experiences on Election Day in order to “see what history looks like,” but you know how the saying goes: History is written by the winners.
Tags: SXSW, Documentary, Comedy, Political, The House Next Door
EssayAlong with a review of the surprisingly good indie frat thriller Brotherhood, I take a closer look at the documentary Marwencol:
→I’m a bit wary of a documentary that feels the need to split itself up into chapters. To me, it’s typically a sign of a director that doesn’t quite know how to unify his material—one of the basic challenges of this genre.
Tags: SXSW, Documentary, WWII, Thriller, The House Next Door
EssayIn my first report from this year’s SXSW, I look at Michel Gondry’s family documentary The Thorn in the Heart, Ivan Reitman’s early and terrible Cannibal Girls, and Crying with Laughter:
→Joey Frisk (a very capable Stephen McCole) is a fireball on the verge of flaming out.
Tags: SXSW, Comedy, Camp, Documentary, Michel Gondry, Ivan Reitman, The House Next Door
EssayThings are going to be a little different this time around.
Last year I wrote down a goal (though where I wrote it is anyone’s guess): next time I attend SXSW, I’d attend with press credentials. Well, let’s hear it for the power of the subconscious, because come this weekend, I’ll be down in Austin with a Press Badge on behalf of The Official Blog of Slant Magazine:
→Tags: SXSW, Amer, The House Next Door
Essay→The praise of the Undermain Theatre’s production of Port Twilight primarily centers around, well, the production. Not that it’s undeserved. The play is a three-ring circus of sliding curtain sets, complex sound, light, and video design, and a cast that carries its weight playing scientists, rabbis, mythical demons and, yes, even an organ grinder.
Tags: Port Twilight, Undermain Theatre, Theater, The House Next Door
EssayAs part of Pixar Week over at The House Next Door:
→If you read interviews or Wikipedia pages regarding director Pete Docter’s inspirations for Up, you’ll find an emphasis on lovable, grumpy actors, childhood fantasies, and real-life grandfather figures.
Tags: Pixar, CG, Animation, Up, Howl's Moving Castle, Hayao Miyazaki, Pete Docter, The House Next Door
EssayIf you’re a fan of good television, chances are you’re already watching Friday Night Lights; if you’re not, shame on you. The show’s second season ended prematurely due to the writer’s strike, and during the lull that preceded the third season, Andrew Johnston, the usual reviewer of Friday Night Lights for The House Next Door, passed away.
→Tags: Friday Night Lights, TV, The House Next Door, Sports
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