Customer ServiceWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 4:53PMNEW YORK - A 12-hour adaptation of a Dostoyevsky novel will be among the highlights of Lincoln Center Festival 2010, running for 45 performances this summer.
Movie Review: Green ZoneWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 4:23PMDiet Bourne turns out to be diet caffeine-free Bourne in spite of all the hyperactive shaky-cam.
Dostoyevsky set for Lincoln Center Festival 2010Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 2:40PMA 12-hour adaptation of a Dostoyevsky novel will be among the highlights of Lincoln Center Festival 2010, running for 45 performances this summer.
Koch on FilmWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 2:33PMBefore seeing this film, I had never heard of Veit Harlan — who directed the 1940 movie “Jew Süss.” — which Manohla Dargis of The New York Times described as “one of the Nazis’ most notorious anti-Semitic works.”
Baka and Test -Summon the Beasts- Episode #09Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 2:31PMToday we have the first simulcast episode for this show. Let's see how far things have advanced. I'm not holding my breath for serious plot development, but more of the same sort of comedy we had in the first two installments. ...
Review | Spam Allstars: Fuacata! (Unrated) *Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 12:16PMDJ Le Spam and the Spam Allstars are prime subjects for a documentary -- a quintessential only-in-Miami phenomenon blending Cuban, Latin, funk and bass music, plus an equally Miami-centric mix of characters. Unfortunately, their legions of fans will have a hard time recognizing the the band in this disjointed, tedious and lousy-sounding film. And those who have never experienced one of the group ...
TV5Monde, Cox NOLA Launch VOD ChannelWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 11:51AMTV5Monde has debuted its first U.S. video-on-demand channel with Cox's New Orleans cable system.
Culinary art of Spain in the spotlightWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 11:12AMDesign + Noveau Spanish Cuisine = Foodjects, a project by CCEMiami and the Tourism Office of Spain featuring a show of culinary objects plus films and workshops, kicks off at 8 p.m. Saturday at CCEMiami @ Design District, 4141 NE Second Ave., Miami. The free show, on view through April 10, focuses on the creative relationship among Spanish chefs, designers and manufacturers in a display of more ...
Japan Review Check: Yakuza 4, Bad Company 2Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 8:58AMA recap of the best games due to hit Japanese shelves next week, courtesy of Famitsu magazine's review pages: - Yakuza 4 (9/10/10/9, 38 points): We haven't gotten Yakuza 3 quite yet, but the sequel's already out in Japan, and it's apparently a scorcher. Everybody loved the new game's multi-viewpoint storyline to bits. "The heroes are packed with personality," one wrote. "Each one has different ...
'90210' recap: New year, new realityWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 7:52AMBy Emily Exton Emily Exton on our return to West Beverly High, where the relationship resolutions at winter break gave way to uncertainty
The Beaches Of AgnesWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 6:42AMHighly Recommended THE MOVIE: The new film by Agnes Varda is the memoir of an inventor, an essay by a prankster, and a documentary about a life in cinema. Altogether playful and seductive, while also at turns heartfelt and poignant, The Beaches of Agnes frames the remembrances of the famed director--the feminine voice of the French New Wave--in a series of mirrors. Varda recreates scenes from ...
Russian cinema festival opening in StrasbourgWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 12:48AMSTRASBOURG, March 10 (Itar-Tass) - The best films by Russian film directors have been included in the program of the Days of Russian Cinema that will be held in Strasbourg within the framework of celebrations of the Year of Russia in France.
Cinematheque: It's More Than a Game - but is it more than a crowdpleaser?Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 11:14PMFollow the basketball wonder LeBron James and the St. Vincent-St. Mary High School basketball team as they rise to (the) stars in More Than a Game , the documentary that has now reached Shanghai movie theaters. It's a classic success story with a "larger-than-life" theme and a soundtrack fueled with megastar hip hop and RnB. With such a recipe, could anything possibly go wrong? The maker of the ...
School of music puts on Beethoven operaTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 7:47PMGrammy Award-winning tenor Anthony Dean Griffey will team up with members of the Ohio State School of Music as he headlines Beethoven’s “Fidelio” on March 10.
Antonio GaudiTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 7:20PMThis brief (72-minute) tribute to the visionary Spanish architect Gaudi (1852-1926) by Hiroshi Teshigahara (Woman in the Dunes) is a beautifully oblique cinematic biography that focuses more on the creations than the creator. Utilizing subtitles without dialogue, ethereal electronic sounds by Toru T...
The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern LightsTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 7:12PMMarriage, sexual ambiguity, and the distant, muted foxiness of the band's drummer have been the subtext of every White Stripes album (and review thereof) ever written. So is it any surprise that Emmett Malloy's Under Great White Northern Lights , despite having the most promising setup of a...
Jaci Stephen: You could spot the Brits at the Oscars – they were the ones without statuettesTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 6:29PMPlease tell me he's done it for a part. Please tell me that George Clooney's badly styled, greying locks at the Oscars, were not the result of a decision on the actor's part to grow old gracefully. Please tell me it wasn't George at all, but an ageing cousin drafted in as a body double because the real George was at home with flu.
ART Till April 3 (except Sundays & public holidays) at CIMA Gallery, #2485 8717; Monday: 3 pm - 7 pm; Tuesday ...Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 3:15PMSymbols & Metaphors — an exhibition of the works of Samir Aich, Rashmi Bagchi Sarkar, Alok Bal, A. Balasubramaniam, Sumitro Basak, Shreyasi Chatterjee, Jogen Chowdhury, Partha Pratim Deb, Atul Dodiya, Jaya Ganguly, Gopal Ghosh, M.F. Husain, Farhad Hussain, Jitish Kallat, Paresh Maity, Veer Munshi, Baiju Parthan, Ganesh Pyne, Kingshuk Sarkar, Mayank Kumar Shyam, Arpita Singh, Sanjeev Sonpimpare ...
German Film Days kick off in the capitalTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 2:59PMOver ten documentaries, animation films and works of fiction of recent German cinema will be screened at the Peasant Museum cinema until Sunday.
Entrepreneur finding growing audience for Korean moviesTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 6:57AMSouth Korea and Northeast Tarrant are nearly 7,000 miles, a few time zones and an ocean apart but, in one way, they are becoming as close as neighboring suburbs.
Wonderful World (Blu-ray)Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 6:48AMRecommended THE FILM Cynicism is a major component of "Wonderful World," detailing how it can hold a life back from the smaller pleasures of the universe, offering false comfort to those less openhearted. It's a mood exhaled into "Wonderful World" with overwhelming vigor at times, capturing the curdled nature of the lead character with unnerving accuracy. For this alone, the picture deserves a ...
Broken Embraces (Blu-ray)Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 6:48AMHighly Recommended [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] "Everything has already happened to me. All that's left is to enjoy life." Mateo Blanco (Lluís Homar) wa... Read the entire review
Breaking Bad: The Complete First Season (Blu-ray)Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 6:48AMHighly Recommended THE SERIES: At the end of the penultimate episode of the first season of Breaking Bad , Walter White wins. He does so in a way that is completely unexpected and spectacularly effective, but entirely in line with his specific characterization-- Yes , we say, that's how Walter could have handled that . The Walter we met at the beginning of the season might not have thought of ...
Clash of the Titans (Blu-ray)Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 6:48AMRecommended The last movie to feature stop-motion animation effects by living legend Ray Harryhausen, Clash of the Titans (1981), is a decidedly mixed bag, playing much like any of his films but classed up a bit with better production values and pricey actors while unfortunately sucking a lot of the simple pleasures out of it at the same time. Film fans have enormous nostalgia for Harryhausen's ...
Did You Hear About the Morgans? (Blu-ray)Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 6:47AMSkip It THE FILM The mild delights of 2007's "Music & Lyrics" notwithstanding, it's always cause for alarm when writer/director Marc Lawrence and actor Hugh Grant find the time in their busy schedules to make movies with each other. "Did You Hear About the Morgans?" is their third collaboration (a trilogy that includes the sour 2002 film, "Two Weeks Notice"), and holds the distinction of being ...
BandslamTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 6:42AMRent It THE FILM As charming and energetic as "Bandslam" is capable of becoming, the feature is restrained by director Todd Graff, or perhaps the better description is smothered. Graff, who covered teen ambition in the semi-musical, mostly awful "Camp," takes on the subject again with "Bandslam," and while the results are more pleasurable and his directorial hand improved, there's still oodles ...
Yakuza Justice: Erotic Code of HonorTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 6:42AMHighly Recommended The Movie: The menu screen on this disc titles the film Lust And Honor , the subtitles on screen titled the film Yakuza Goddess: Lust And Honor while the cover art uses the title Yakuza Justice: Erotic Code Of Honor . Call it what you will, this 1973 offering from famed pink film directed Tatsumi Kumashiro (probably best known for his seminal The Woman With Red Hair ) is a ...
Boondock Saints II: All Saints DayTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 6:42AMRecommended THE PROGRAM Troy Duffy's 1999 film debut "The Boondock Saints" is the textbook definition of a cult classic. Garnering an incredible fan base through DVD rental and sales, the story of two Irish-American brothers turned vigilantes showed no restraint. A solid 110-minutes of incessant profanity, violence, awkward humor, racism, and homophobia never bothered fans, nor did the fact that ...
DVD offers crime advice for deafTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 1:12AMA DVD offering crime prevention advice which has been specially made for deaf people is launched by Gwent Police.
Pink is the natural color of loveTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 1:04AMA review of Gerardo Z. Torres"s Kulay Rosas ang Pintig ng Puso , a must-read for people who are in love or who long to fall in love, whether one is gay or straight.
Silly seasonMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 2:57PMSpring pimps for summer Now that the Oscars are over, let's get dumb. THE LOSERS Zoe Saldana stars in the movie adaptation of Andy Diggle's graphic-novel CIA thriller. Enough of taking films seriously — now that the Oscars are over, let's get dumb. Such is the studio strategy for the next three months or so, a period that starts out with such intellectual feasts as Hot Tub Time Machine and ...
Godard's "Breathless" Returns; Restoration Will Premiere at Grauman's Chinese at TCM Classic FestMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 1:45PM"Breathless," Jean-Luc Godard’s feature debut and a seminal film of the French New Wave, will return to theaters this May. Rialto Pictures has acquired the U.S. theatrical rights to the 1960 film. To mark the 50th anniversary of its release, a new 35mm restoration, recently unveiled at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, will have its American premiere at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in ...
Soranowoto Episode #10Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 12:56PMEvents seem to be moving slowly but Rio's mental state is slipping away from here bit by bit. What They Say There is no happiness in the world. There is no joy. If anything, it is a dark and needy world. However, that is just one state of the world... There are beautiful things, filthy things, harsh things...
Chu-Bra Episode #10Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 11:26AMDid we just step into a Seinfeld episode...
Anna Kareninová – leading Czech literary and film translatorMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 11:14AMAnna Kareninová is a leading Czech literary translator and editor who also does the subtitles for a lot of the films that appear on the country’s cinema and TV screens. Many viewers would no doubt imagine that Anna Kareninová is a nom de plume, as it is the Czech version of Anna Karenina, the heroine of the Tolstoy novel of the same name. In fact, she told me at Prague’s Café Slavia, the name ...
Japan defends dolphin hunt in Oscar-winning 'Cove'Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 6:52AMTAIJI, Japan -- The Japanese fishing village featured in "The Cove," which won an Oscar for best documentary, defended its practice of hunting dolphins Monday as a part of its tradition.The covertly ...
Capitalism: A Love Story (Blu-ray)Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 6:32AMDVD Talk Collector Series "Capitalism is an evil. And you can't regulate evil." - Michael Moore "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies." - Thomas Jefferson There were a number of reasons why I decided to move to Japan about seven years ago. One of these reasons is the subject of Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) a typically ...
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The SqueakquelMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 6:26AMRent It In 10 Words or Less The singing rodents are back and they've brought friends Reviewer's Bias* Loves: Likes: Alvin and the Chipmunks, Jason Lee, David Cross Dislikes: Predictable movies Hates: Pandering to children The Story So Far Alvin, Simon and Theodore, a trio of singing chipmunks, came into the life of David Seville in Alvin and the Chipmunks a live-action feature update on the ...
NinjaMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 6:26AMSkip It THE PROGRAM One doesn't pop a movie titled simply, "Ninja" in their DVD player expecting high art. Ninjas were a popular b-movie staple in the 80s, becoming synonymous with the leading name in b-movies, The Canon Group. The most memorable entries in the ninja genre either featured Sho Kosugi or Michael Dudikoff, whose ninja films are remembered for far different reasons than the formers ...
Japan defends dolphin hunt in Oscar-winning 'Cove'Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 5:41AMThe Japanese fishing village featured in "The Cove," which won an Oscar for best documentary, defended its practice of hunting dolphins Monday as a part of its tradition.
"Split" Now Sold to 35 Countries in Just 9 MonthsMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 5:05AMLONDON----Dori Media Group , the international media company active in the field of television, with a focus on production, distribution, broadcasting and merchandising of Telenovela and Drama, announces that its teen vampire TV series "Split", which was originally produced by Dori Media Darset for Israeli cable platform HOT, has been sold to the Philippines, the first country in Asia to acquire ...
YouTube to add subtitles to all videosMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 4:10AMYouTube is planning to make captions available on all videos to make them more accessible for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Shin Koihime Musou Episodes #11-#12Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 3:11AMWho knew that listening to a bland pop singing group could turn you into a murderous rebel against the government. Fortunately, today's pop music has no such power... other than to make one want to puke at times. ...
Swedish Children To Become Familiar With Iranian National DollsMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 3:04AMTEHRAN, March 8 (Bernama) -- Iran's national dolls Dara and Sara will be introduced to Swedish children during Iran Sweden Children Friendship Week, Mehr News Agency reports Monday.
AU Shippin' Out March 8-12: Final Fantasy XIIIMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 1:15AMSquareEnix's highly anticipated Japanese RPG makes its Western debut on both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.