Updated through 5/10.
"The filmmaker and Oakland native Sidney Peterson once scatted that after World War II, San Francisco 'was a city hanging loose, a small pocket edition, for a brief period, of the Vienna of Wittgenstein and Musil, and the Zurich of Tzara, the Cologne, the Berlin, the Paris, the Hanover, the New York of Dada.'" In the New York Times, Manohla Dargis notes that the version of Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945 - 2000 presented at Anthology Film Archives today and tomorrow and at MoMA on Sunday and Monday "doesn't go as deep or as wide as the original, of course. But it's something of a movable feast nonetheless, and it gives you plenty to chew on, starting with an entire program dedicated to Peterson, a sculptor, painter and novelist whose adventures in the seventh art in the late 1940s turned him...
"The filmmaker and Oakland native Sidney Peterson once scatted that after World War II, San Francisco 'was a city hanging loose, a small pocket edition, for a brief period, of the Vienna of Wittgenstein and Musil, and the Zurich of Tzara, the Cologne, the Berlin, the Paris, the Hanover, the New York of Dada.'" In the New York Times, Manohla Dargis notes that the version of Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945 - 2000 presented at Anthology Film Archives today and tomorrow and at MoMA on Sunday and Monday "doesn't go as deep or as wide as the original, of course. But it's something of a movable feast nonetheless, and it gives you plenty to chew on, starting with an entire program dedicated to Peterson, a sculptor, painter and novelist whose adventures in the seventh art in the late 1940s turned him...
- 5/10/2011
- MUBI
Accept the lead role in a musical and there's nowhere to hide, Daniel Radcliffe. But somehow semi-competence is perfect here
If this series proves anything, it is that the quality of people's acting will always be a matter of opinion. Singing and dancing, on the other hand ... Well, if you accept the lead role in a Broadway musical then there is only so much uncertainty to hide behind. As Daniel Radcliffe has just discovered.
Two things emerge unanimously from the American reviews of his performance as the young window cleaner J Pierrepont Finch, who strives to scale the corporate pyramid in How to Succeed in Oh I Can't Be Bothered You Type the Rest. The first thing: everybody wishes young Radcliffe well. The second thing: absolutely no one thinks he can sing.
"As winningly game and diligent as he shows himself to be ... he's out of his league," says Peter Marks in the Washington Post.
If this series proves anything, it is that the quality of people's acting will always be a matter of opinion. Singing and dancing, on the other hand ... Well, if you accept the lead role in a Broadway musical then there is only so much uncertainty to hide behind. As Daniel Radcliffe has just discovered.
Two things emerge unanimously from the American reviews of his performance as the young window cleaner J Pierrepont Finch, who strives to scale the corporate pyramid in How to Succeed in Oh I Can't Be Bothered You Type the Rest. The first thing: everybody wishes young Radcliffe well. The second thing: absolutely no one thinks he can sing.
"As winningly game and diligent as he shows himself to be ... he's out of his league," says Peter Marks in the Washington Post.
- 3/29/2011
- by Leo Benedictus
- The Guardian - Film News
In 1972, "That Championship Season" wowed Broadway winning both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for neophyte playwright Jason Miller. Nearly four decades on, his son Jason Patric headlines the first Broadway revival of this ensemble drama. Joining him in this memory play about the ill-fated reunion of a high school basketball team with their coach are Kiefer Sutherland, Chris Noth, Brian Cox and Jim Caffigan. Reviews for this production which opened Sunday were decidedly mixed. Ben Brantley of the New York Times was disappointed to discover that the play is less than the sum of its parts "expressing its intentions loudly, repeatedly and often embarrassingly." Among the actors, he singled out the Emmy-winning "24" star for praise, noting "Sutherland, in his Broadway debut, is the most credible of the lot, quietly conveying a shrunken man poisoned by passivity and resentment." Scott Brown of New York concurred, dism...
- 3/8/2011
- Gold Derby
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