Take The City And Run

Directed by Marc Forster
Harold Crick: You don’t understand that this isn’t a story to me, it’s my life! I want to live!
The concept of the film brings to mind the work of Charlie Kaufman — Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind — but, in the end, doesn’t quite reach the same […]

Directed by Emile de Antonio
A well-constructed and informative documentary. Of course, it’s hard to watch the mistakes of Vietnam and not relate them to Iraq. But this film stands on its own as a solid piece of work.
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Directed by Errol Morris
Pet Cemetery Investor: Death is for the living and not for the dead.
Sure, it’s got quirky characters and an unusual subject, but it still feels uneven in its coverage.
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Directed by Steve James
William Gates: People always say to me, “when you get to the NBA, don’t forget about me.” Well, I should’ve said back, “if I don’t make it to the NBA, don’t you forget about me.”
It’s nice when a film lives up to all the hype you’ve always heard about it. The dedication […]

Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
Grandpa: A real loser is someone who’s so afraid of not winning he doesn’t even try.
Enjoyable, well-acted, but it wants to be quirkier than it is, which makes it feel a little overdone at times.
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Directed by Liam Lynch
Sarah Silverman: I don’t care if you think I’m racist. I only care if you think I’m thin.
If you’ve ever seen Silverman on a talk show, you’ve likely heard most of the jokes already. And when your humor relies so much on shock, hearing jokes for the umteenth time just doesn’t really […]

Directed by Scott Caan
Impressive as far as first features go. A certain enjoyable enthusiasm is evident in the filmmaking, even if it isn’t a perfect film.
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Directed by Richard Linklater
Set in a future not too far off, the film really acts as an indictment of many elements of today’s culture and serves as a cautionary tale. Of course, it’s a story by Philip K. Dick, so this is to be expected. It’s one of the best films we’ve seen so far […]

Directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Miette: When you’re born in the gutter you end up in the port.
Visually striking and imaginative with iconic characters. Plays like a deranged new age fairytale thought up by Lewis Carroll and Terry Gilliam. Ron Perlman, as the caring and gentle strongman, One, strikes me as something of an […]

Directed by Billy Ray
Chuck Lane: He handed us fiction after fiction and we printed them all as fact because we found him entertaining. It’s indefensible. Don’t you know that?
I hadn’t noticed before how much this film owes to All The President’s Men. The similarities are interesting, and rather significant in the way they set the […]

Directed by Don Letts
David Johansen: You know, rock and roll had become this just be-denimed kind of, drum solo kind of thing, and what we wanted to do was bring it down to three minutes and put that Little Richard drag on top of it. And that’s what rock and roll was to us, you […]

Directed by Paul Schrader
Bob Crane: A day without sex…
John Carpenter: …is a day wasted!
A well-made, well-shot biopic. But, unfortunately, it suffers the flaws of so many biopics in that it tends to be too episodic and much of the supporting cast seem to be used as little more than props in hitting the standard plot […]