Posts with tag nytimes.com

Mean Streets To Clean Streets: The New York Times In 60 Seconds

by Bob Sassone Apr 30th 2006 // 9:06PM

The history of filmmakers using New York City as a location for films. I don't really buy the idea that NYC is a "city without character." Sure, times have changed, but I think that it's up to the filmmakers to make the city (or any city) a part of a film.
The globalization of the American independent film.
A look at Jean-Pierre Melville's Army of Shadows.
OK, so we're giving you all the Tribeca Film Festival coverage that you could possibly need, but that doesn't mean you can't read Caryn James' reports too!
In an audio slide show, Catherine Keener and Nicole Holofcener discuss their movie Friends With Money.

by Bob Sassone Apr 11th 2006 // 12:07PM

So let me get this straight: Hairspray, the movie, is released in 1988. Then they make a musical from it in 2002. And now New Line is again going to make a movie of it, this time with a budget of $50 million? Jeez, I know they say Hollywood is out of ideas, but this is ridiculous.
The paper reviews some of the more weird horror flicks coming out from overseas, including Pray, about a punk teen and his druggie girlfriend who kidnap a girl, only to find out she's been dead for a year (Oooooooo!); Una Bianca, a long Italian TV movie about two cops tracking down a group of vicious crooks; and Don't Deliver Us From Evil, which is about two young girls who worship Satan and start killing males in their neighborhood. And in one of the more unintentionally funny segues, the Times then says, "Also out today ...Fun With Dick And Jane."

by Bob Sassone Mar 13th 2006 // 10:03PM

Some Brokeback Mountain fans are so outraged that Crash won for Best Picture that they've spent $24,000 (I saw another piece that said it was as much as $26,000) on a full page ad.
Speaking of Brokeback: can you see it in China?
A Hollywood private eye tale that reads like something out of a movie.
Who is going to take over the reins of Universal Pictures?
Alan Moore isn't happy with V for Vendetta. Nope, not at all.
Check out the last edition (this year, anyway) of David Carr's special Red Carpet video reports from Times Square (scroll down). It's his "end of the awards season" report. My favorite line involves William Shatner and a horse.

by Bob Sassone Feb 20th 2006 // 12:29PM

Is Jon Stewart ready for hosting the Oscars?
Speaking of the Oscars, Robert Altman is finally getting one.
Another 15 minutes for an Andy Warhol girl.
What happened to the career of Cuba Gooding, Jr?
Photographs of 26 Oscar nominees, including the strangest picture of George Clooney you've ever seen.

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