http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner en-us Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:47:31 -0700 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:15:27 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m10d9-Competition-and-Elocution-The-Damned-United-and-An-Education-open-in-New-York?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner  It’s thrilling when actors can make characters that should be hateful magnetic and sympathetic. Think Gordon Gekko and Nick Naylor; think Michelle Pfeiffer in White Oleander and Jeff Daniels in The Squid and the Whale. In The Damned Unite... Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:15:27 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m10d9-Competition-and-Elocution-The-Damned-United-and-An-Education-open-in-New-York?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m9d20-Disgrace-a-father-and-daughter-divided-by-guilt?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner It could almost be called “irony”: right after Professor David Lurie has an affair with a student half his age, his daughter is raped. But Disgrace, beautifully adapted (by Anna Maria Monticelli) from J.M. Coetzee’s novel of the sam... Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:09:15 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m9d20-Disgrace-a-father-and-daughter-divided-by-guilt?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m9d17-The-Burning-Plain-three-women-looking-for-a-way-out?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner The stars of The Burning Plain should win some sort of award for making suffering compelling, and I mean that as a compliment. It can’t be easy to cheer up a storyline set in motion by a flaming trailer and a crashed plane, especially when your... Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:47:46 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m9d17-The-Burning-Plain-three-women-looking-for-a-way-out?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m9d8-Dolls-Versus-the-Machine?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner In Shane Acker’s feature debut 9, creatures that resemble rag dolls fight through a post-apocalyptic universe in which man-made machines have turned against their creators. If you don’t think this sounds like a children’s movie, nei... Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:27:46 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m9d8-Dolls-Versus-the-Machine?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m7d24-Orphan-When-it-comes-to-children-threes-a-crowd?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner Once you get past thudding horror movie music, obvious plot holes, and the fact that the final twist was leaked to the internet so long ago it barely qualifies as a twist (try, if you can, not to search the internet), the Bad Seed update Orphan eleva... Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:41:46 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m7d24-Orphan-When-it-comes-to-children-threes-a-crowd?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m5d23-Easy-Virtue-American-race-car-driver-meets-British-matriarch?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner  I’m not generally inclined to like movies that earn laughs from dead puppies; Easy Virtue, however, also pokes fun at fox hunting, infidelity, spinster-dom, bare-assed teenagers, and the notion that an American race car driver can wi... Sat, 23 May 2009 11:30:22 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m5d23-Easy-Virtue-American-race-car-driver-meets-British-matriarch?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m5d15-Atom-Egoyan-legacies-blessings-challenging-conventions?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner Twenty-three years ago, Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan read the story of a pregnant Irish woman blocked from boarding an Israel-bound airplane when security found explosives her Muslim boyfriend had slipped into her hand luggage. Egoyan's latest mo... Thu, 14 May 2009 22:04:15 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m5d15-Atom-Egoyan-legacies-blessings-challenging-conventions?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m5d6-Adoration-72-virgins-and-one-lie?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner The past and the present co-exist in Atom Egoyan’s Adoration, which imagines that an unwitting suicide bomber and her secretive husband are the parents of Canadian teenage boy. But to peg it simply as an examination of fanaticism wouldn’t... Wed, 06 May 2009 21:49:11 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m5d6-Adoration-72-virgins-and-one-lie?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m5d3-Julianna-Margulies-first-time-out-to-City-Island?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner Julianna Margulies might have spent years on and off in her current hometown of New York, but she hadn’t heard of City Island until she was cast as Andy Garcia’s wife in Raymond De Felitta’s comedy-drama named after the idyllic Bron... Sun, 03 May 2009 12:54:29 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m5d3-Julianna-Margulies-first-time-out-to-City-Island?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m4d29-Days-of-laughs-and-bruises?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner Young Billy Conway lives in a surreal suburbia where accidental incinerations are omnisciently narrated, car crashes occur in dreamlike slow motion, and Mom comes across as an otherworldly creature, which might be because she speaks in metaphors and ... Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:57:37 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m4d29-Days-of-laughs-and-bruises?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m4d27-Honey-Im-homeand-were-not-leaving?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner  A wonderfully squirmy black comedy with a heart that’s more honest than saccharine, Serious Moonlight  establishes Adrienne Shelly as one of the screen’s most unusual writers. She’s a storyteller capable of making us laug... Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:04:49 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m4d27-Honey-Im-homeand-were-not-leaving?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m4d25-Moonlighting-as-director-a-chat-with-Cheryl-Hines?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner “We weren’t sitting around going, what would Adrienne want?” says Cheryl Hines, “because what Adrienne would have wanted was for us to make a good movie.” The Curb Your Enthusiasm alum makes her directorial debut wi... Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:15:25 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m4d25-Moonlighting-as-director-a-chat-with-Cheryl-Hines?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m4d23-City-Islands-fun-but-crowded?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner Can a man get closer to his distant wife by bringing home the son she never knew he had? This is one of the questions raised in Raymond De Felitta’s City Island, a quirky and likable comedy with logic issues that remains endearing through an ov... Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:18:10 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m4d23-City-Islands-fun-but-crowded?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m4d21-Suburbia-in-the-70s--pesky-insects-and-peskier-people?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner The American dream – circa Long Island, circa the 1970s – is apparently comprised of monopoly-sized houses, which makes sense, because none of the adults in Derick and Steven Martini’s Lymelife are interested in existing in reality.... Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:19:03 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m4d21-Suburbia-in-the-70s--pesky-insects-and-peskier-people?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m4d19-Love-and-indecision-in-Brooklyn?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner Two Lovers, which is currently playing at Cinema Village, might not be as gritty as writer/director James Gray’s earlier films (including Little Odessa and We Own the Night), but it has the same sense of authenticity; over the course of two hou... Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:02:23 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m4d19-Love-and-indecision-in-Brooklyn?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m4d18-Good-Play-British-series-gets-proper-treatment-in-America?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner I don’t know what’s more fun: hearing Russell Crowe ask Helen Mirren when she had her balls cut off, or trying to decipher a smeary political conspiracy that involves Jason Bateman playing a pill-popping publicist.Either way, State of Pla... Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:25:59 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-8509-NY-Film-Examiner~y2009m4d18-Good-Play-British-series-gets-proper-treatment-in-America?cid=exrss-NY-Film-Examiner