December 2009
23 posts
My Top Ten of '09 (and Sean Burns', too) →
“If I could get political for a second here, it is a shame that Congress so...”
– Vern on health care.
Six Non-Holiday Movies Set During Xmas →
Which is me carrying on a list I started last year (and could conceivably go on ad inf.). Also! Reviews of A Single Man and Broken Embraces.
The Drunkest Movies →
Plus! A Six Pack on directors with huge gaps in their filmographies, a bit (12th down) on a screening of Chantal Akerman’s minimalist/feminist epic Jeanne Dielman and a review of The Young Victoria. We were going to run Sean Burns’ review (pan, actually) of Avatar, but soon before printing my lovely and very nice editor was quite sternly informed that the embargo still held and if we...
“this from the town that’s trying to murder Mumia Abu Jamal.”
– Turns out Sean doesn’t always get the best hatemail. (Runners-up: “I lived through the sixties, and I know what tear gas smells like. I doubt this reviewer does”; “Did you even _watch_ the documentary, or did you merely spend the time in the theater rearranging your...
“10COMMANDMENTS.01 Pay no attention to other gods on Twitter. I am...”
– The thoroughly bizarre site of Ian Martin, “swearing consultant” on The Thick of It and In the Loop.
Six Films Made After Their Creators' Death →
Also! Reviews of The Princess and the Frog, Serious Moonlight and William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, and a bit on a screening from the wares of Temple’s vast Urban Archives vault (ninth down).
Six Batshit Insane Nicolas Cage Performances →
Also! Reviews of 35 Shots of Rum, Everybody’s Fine and Dare.