Gylenhaal Jake as the Prince of Persia
Jake Gylenhaal is filming this summer in Prince of Persia and special premiers look for that tape.
Totally different from what we normally expect, with long hair and a belly exercised unexpectedly, Jake goes about filming their scenes together with the already Inseperable Reese Witherspoon.
I think I still had her picture other teen movies, but in these images confirms that it has grown its .. acting ability, of course.
The Process of Change
Director–Pupi Avati
Starring Diego Abatantuona, Ines Sastre
Comedy 100 min
Pupi Avati’s new film, The Best Man, is set in a Northern Italy town on the last day of the 19th century. In the quiet community Avati depicts, local people are watching the clock tick away to 1900 while experiencing twin impulses: One, Read the rest of this entry »
The Documentary as Infomercial
Director–Michael Paxton
145 min
This two-and-a-half-hour love letter to the influential author of “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged” — and one of the most tedious absolutists in the history of human thought — fails to produce even the faintest shred of contrary opinion to Rand’s extreme views on the preeminence of individuals in all things.
Florsheim to Gucci
Like some ghost of Christmas past, The Associate has turned up as a holiday film with echoes of Hollywood’s Reagan-Bush era fascination with corporate maneuverings and the ordinary guy/gal’s heroic quest for ultra-wealth. In the Florsheim-to-Gucci-heeled footsteps of The Secret of My Success and
Muddled, But Smart
PolyGram
Director–Mark Pellington
Starring Hope Davis, Jeff Bridges, Joan Cusack, Tim Robbins
Thriller 119 min
Any thriller that can make even Joan Cusack look scary while she’s smiling has got to be a winner, and despite its problems with fuzzy background logic and somewhat erratic pacing, Arlington Road is very much a winner.
Sour Power
Columbia
Action Drama 120 min
Absolute Power: Famous though he is as an amateur musician and jazz aficionado, Clint Eastwood’s feeling for shifting moods and tones as a filmmaker is oddly remote. The best of Eastwood’s movies typically have one kind of sustained tone or another:
Double Vision
Ocean Releasing
Director–Freida Lee Mock
Starring Maya Lin
Documentary 96 min
Freida Lee Mock originally conceived this film as a shorter documentary based on the creation of Lin’s Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, but realized there was more to be told about the architect and artist who was thrust to the forefront of American politics in 1982.
Road Trip
Director–Christine Choy
Documentary
My America is an often humorous and sharply observed documentary about one Asian-American’s quest to find Asian America. Inspired by Christine Choy’s Chan is Missing (Choy served as this film’s cinematographer),
Blame the Sprechers
Independent
Director–Jill Sprecher
Starring Lisa Kudrow, Parker Posey, Toni Collette
Comedy 105 min
Clockwatchers has good things going for it: sophisticated ensemble acting, scenes composed with a modernist, painterly eye, defiantly un-Hollywood subtlety. What a shame it falls so flat.
Heh-Heh, Heh-Heh
Sean Means
Director–Mike Judge
Considering the attention span of Beavis and Butt-head fans, I’d better make this quick: Beavis and Butt-head Do America isn’t worth prying yourself off the couch. It contains 20 minutes of actual jokes (the equivalent of one episode of the MTV series), spread out over 80 minutes that would have Butt-head clicking [...]
