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New Releases
This Week
In Stores 06/20/2006
• The Hills Have Eyes
• Eight Below
• Syriana
• The Omen
• Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor)Comment
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Match Point
This decided change of tone is one of Woody Allen’s best films in years. Wickedly cynical, Allen would have us believe that there are only various levels of evil in the world, each fighting for survival, rarely allowing trivialities such as morality or ethics to get in the way. In fact, as Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), the narrator of the piece explains, “I’d rather be lucky than good.” He makes an interesting analogy. A former tennis pro, he...
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Ultraviolet
As Ultraviolet spooled before me, I was struck by its similarities to Aeon Flux. Both films were filmed in exotic locations that feature impressively modern architecture. Both SciFi flicks are set in the future. Both fictional societies are inflicted with a fatal disease. Both films feature a nearly indestructible heroine who dispatches most of her opponents with entirely too much aplomb. Both heroines are highly capable assassins working for a resistance...
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Koko: A Talking Gorilla
Koko the talking gorilla is one of the most beloved subjects in documentary history. As this ape shows Barbet Schroeder’s crew the extent of her knowledge of language and communication, it’s impossible not to find a modicum of affinity with her prescient charm. (French author Marguerite Duras’s essay about how she adores Koko is included in this DVD edition.) But the real wonder of Koko: A Talking Gorilla, Schroeder’s notoriously empathetic 1978 documentary, is how...
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Michael Haneke on DVD
The cinema of Michael Haneke is the filmic equivalent of a stranger punching you in the windpipe and stealing your wallet. But unlike the physical and emotional distress caused by an actual physical assault, Haneke’s impositions on the psyches of his often-unsuspecting audiences are liberating breaths of fresh air. Cache from last year and 2004’s Hour of the Wolf are noble, but uneven, additions to his ever-escalating oeuvre. His inimitable The Piano Teacher is his most recent...
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Bride and Prejudice (2005)
The determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find marriage matches for her four beautiful daughters while there's a lavish wedding party in town. Right away, the smart and headstrong Lalita announces she will only marry for love, giving her mother nightmares. Then Lalita meets wealthy American Will Darcy, and sparks immediately fly. But is it love or hate? Darcy comes off to Lalita as an arrogant California...
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Playing By Heart (199
Set in Los Angeles a chorus of talkers discuss the ups and downs of love, marriage and breaking up: the 40th anniversary of Hannah and Paul is darkened by jealousy; Joan meets Keenan in a phone booth while breaking up with her current boyfriend; Meredith is an overachiever who sends Trent packing before he has a chance to find a single flaw in her; Gracie and Roger are hot in love, too bad that they...
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