Peter Bart recently posted an entry on his blog about “The Joaquin Phoenix Mythology”, relating a story about Mr. Phoenix’s appearance on Bart’s show Shootout several years ago. Bard describes his experience interviewing Mr. Phoenix as lucid, except for one specific moment of panic:
Clean-shaven and calm, Joaquin struck me as an OK guy until we [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Joaquin Phoenix confounds, perplexes
Posted in Features on February 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In Bruges
Posted in Reviews on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson) are two men sent to Bruges against their will, forced to see the staggeringly boring historic sights and stay in their hotel room. Bruges is in Belgium, and Ray and Ken are two assassins. Unfortunately for Ray, his last job resulted in the death of a young child, [...]
“Hard Candy” difficult to swallow
Posted in Reviews on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lionsgate releases a slew of mid-level horror films throughout a given year. In 2006, they developed Hard Candy, a conceptual scenario involving pedophilia and punishment, a real winning combination. It is an intentionally ambiguous and difficult film, made more complex by its desire to also be viscerally entertaining and commercially appealing. The result is typical [...]
Revisiting Lawrence of Arabia
Posted in Reviews on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia takes place in the sun-drenched Saharan desert during World War I, a place filled mostly with camels and turbans, during a time during which Western civilization supposed that foreign meant savage. Stationed at a camp in Cairo, Egypt, a soldier named T.E. Lawrence (Peter O’Toole), a dreamer and thinker, is [...]
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