Hitting movie theaters this weekend:
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules – Zachary Gordon, Devon Bostick, Robert Capron
Sucker Punch – Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Carla Gugino, Jon Hamm
Movie of the Week
Sucker Punch
The Stars: Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Carla Gugino, Jon Hamm
The Plot: A young girl (Browning) is institutionalized by her wicked stepfather. Retreating to an alternative reality as a coping strategy, she envisions a plan which will help her escape from the facility.
The Buzz: It’s certainly a great time to be a fifteen-year-old boy, isn’t it? It’s a shame I’m twenty years past my prime – Sucker Punch would have been 100% pure Pavlovian arousal for me back then. The batch of battling bombshells cartwheeling in all their gorgeously rendered video-game glory, coupled with the film’s flawless focus on, and impenetrable belief in, the great escape that can...
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules – Zachary Gordon, Devon Bostick, Robert Capron
Sucker Punch – Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Carla Gugino, Jon Hamm
Movie of the Week
Sucker Punch
The Stars: Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Carla Gugino, Jon Hamm
The Plot: A young girl (Browning) is institutionalized by her wicked stepfather. Retreating to an alternative reality as a coping strategy, she envisions a plan which will help her escape from the facility.
The Buzz: It’s certainly a great time to be a fifteen-year-old boy, isn’t it? It’s a shame I’m twenty years past my prime – Sucker Punch would have been 100% pure Pavlovian arousal for me back then. The batch of battling bombshells cartwheeling in all their gorgeously rendered video-game glory, coupled with the film’s flawless focus on, and impenetrable belief in, the great escape that can...
- 3/23/2011
- by Aaron Ruffcorn
- The Scorecard Review
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"Meskada" (2010)
Directed by Josh Sternfeld
Released by Anchor Bay Entertainment
When this thriller premiered at Tribeca this past spring, Alison Willmore wrote, "the second film from writer/director Josh Sternfeld ("Winter Solstice") has ambitions reaching beyond being a straightforward police procedural," though critics, including her, were mixed about the end result. Nick Stahl and Rachel Nichols star as small-town sleuths who investigate a botched home invasion case that claims the life of a young child in an affluent community and enflames class divisions when the main suspects are from the poorer community nearby. Grace Gummer, Meryl Streep's second daughter to go into the family profession, makes her film debut.
"Anywhere USA" (2008)
Directed by Chusy Haney-Jardine
Released by Cinevolve Studios
Winner of a Spirit of Independence prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Chusy Haney-Jardine's collection of three comic vignettes involves a...
"Meskada" (2010)
Directed by Josh Sternfeld
Released by Anchor Bay Entertainment
When this thriller premiered at Tribeca this past spring, Alison Willmore wrote, "the second film from writer/director Josh Sternfeld ("Winter Solstice") has ambitions reaching beyond being a straightforward police procedural," though critics, including her, were mixed about the end result. Nick Stahl and Rachel Nichols star as small-town sleuths who investigate a botched home invasion case that claims the life of a young child in an affluent community and enflames class divisions when the main suspects are from the poorer community nearby. Grace Gummer, Meryl Streep's second daughter to go into the family profession, makes her film debut.
"Anywhere USA" (2008)
Directed by Chusy Haney-Jardine
Released by Cinevolve Studios
Winner of a Spirit of Independence prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Chusy Haney-Jardine's collection of three comic vignettes involves a...
- 3/22/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
I'm glad that the organization, (now in year three I believe?) has a set in stone manner in which to evaluate the best of the best in doc films, something in which the Oscars have proved to be inadequate in acknowledging. - Having never asked any filmmaker the question of how the Cinema Eye Honors are perceived within the documentary filmmaker community, I'd be willing to bet that its quickly become a welcomed, annual celebration of the form. I'm glad that the organization, (now in year three I believe?) has a set in stone manner in which to evaluate the best of the best in doc films, something in which the Oscars have proved to be inadequate in acknowledging. The cut-off point appears to be before this year's Tiff, which means a doc like Chris Smith's Collapse, which only receives its theatrical release in November, won't make the cut until next year,...
- 12/13/2009
- by Ioncinema.com Staff
- IONCINEMA.com
Not half an hour after The Hurt Locker won the Best Feature prize at last night's Gotham Independent Film Awards, hordes of awardgoers trekked from Cipriani Wall Street to the Kodak/indieWIRE afterparty at the Tribeca Cinemas. Free liquor still being one of life's great social lubricants, even those who headed to the party empty-handed were in pleasant spirits when I asked about their favorite films of 2009—Gothams-related or otherwise:
"Fantastic Mr. Fox was hand-made and the kind of care that goes in with that feels intimate. It's impossible to fake. Wes Anderson always has that ability to bring you into a world that you think you know but don't, and allows you an invitation. I haven't had more fun in the movies in a while."
- Ben Foster, "Breakthrough Actor" nominee for The Messenger
"I want this to read 'Damien Chazelle, over cocktails, said...' I like Two Lovers...
"Fantastic Mr. Fox was hand-made and the kind of care that goes in with that feels intimate. It's impossible to fake. Wes Anderson always has that ability to bring you into a world that you think you know but don't, and allows you an invitation. I haven't had more fun in the movies in a while."
- Ben Foster, "Breakthrough Actor" nominee for The Messenger
"I want this to read 'Damien Chazelle, over cocktails, said...' I like Two Lovers...
- 12/1/2009
- GreenCine Daily
We here at Filmmaker have been big fans of Alexander Olch's experimental memoir/documentary The Windmill Movie since seeing it at the New York Film Festival in '08. If you missed it in theaters over the summer it will premiere on HBO2 tonight @ 8pm. For those who don't know about it, the film is about the 300 hours of autobiographical footage left behind by filmmaker/professor Richard P. Rogers after his death in 2001. Olch (who was a student of Rogers's) was calling in to look over the footage and finish the film his mentor never could. What he delivers is a fascinating essay filled with Rogers's footage (including beautiful landscapes of the Hamptons), audio recordings, actors like Wallace Shawn playing Rogers, and Olch's narration....
- 10/28/2009
- by Jason Guerrasio
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Every Tuesday on Vf.com, filmmaker Jamie Johnson offers a glimpse into the secret lives of the super-rich. Richard P. Rogers, c. 1970's, courtesy Scm Productions. Still from The Windmill Movie, directed by Alexander Olch. Last fall, when I arrived at Manhattan’s magnificent Ziegfeld Theatre for the premiere of my friend Alexander Olch’s film The Windmill Movie, I didn’t know what to expect. Only a few months earlier, I had screened a rough cut of the film with Alex and learned two things: first, that he was running out of patience for the project after investing five year time on it; and second, that his filmmaking endeavor required him to use actors and a script to complete an autobiographical documentary that his late film professor at Harvard had failed to finish before contracting a fatal case of brain cancer. At the time, it seemed that his depleted enthusiasm,...
- 6/23/2009
- Vanity Fair
More than once in Alexander Olch’s documentary The Windmill Movie, the late filmmaker Richard P. Rogers explains to his friends how his envy of Steven Spielberg related to a general fascination with anyone who made different life choices than he. Yet judging by Rogers’ 1970 short film “Quarry”—which screens prior to The Windmill Movie—Rogers’ aesthetic sensibility ran far closer to cinéma vérité than to Spielberg. “Quarry” is a strikingly lovely film, shifting gradually from shots of Vietnam-bound boys swimming in a gravel pit to a shot of the pit frozen over and abandoned. The movie ...
- 6/18/2009
- avclub.com
“Why is it so hard to make a film about yourself?” asks Richard Rogers in Alexander Olch’s The Windmill Movie. He shortly thereafter unwittingly answers his own question via another question: “Is there anything to say?” Opening today at Film Forum in New York, Windmill is a kind of personal documentary by proxy. After his teacher/mentor/collaborator Rogers died of cancer, Olch was invited by Rogers’ widow, world-renowned photographer Susan Meiselas, to comb through the Harvard professor/documentarian’s vast archives of film and video, shot towards a hypothetical autobiographical movie that Rogers was never able to put together. For Rogers, self-examination lead to a kind of tunnel-vision, embodied by an oft-seen image in Windmill ...
- 6/17/2009
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
He hated his family and loved women. Those are the two bits of information that stick in my mind after watching "The Windmill Movie," a warm portrait of the fascinating Richard P. Rogers, an experimental filmmaker.
For decades, Rogers had worked on a filmed autobiography, but he was never able to finish it.
When he died of cancer in 2001, his widow, photographer Susan Meiselas, asked one of his former students, Alexander Olch, to go through 200 hours of her husband's film and video, going...
For decades, Rogers had worked on a filmed autobiography, but he was never able to finish it.
When he died of cancer in 2001, his widow, photographer Susan Meiselas, asked one of his former students, Alexander Olch, to go through 200 hours of her husband's film and video, going...
- 6/17/2009
- by By V.A. MUSETTO
- NYPost.com
Alexander Olch is best known as a men's neckwear designer (a niche role, certainly)—but expect that to change starting Wednesday, when The Windmill Movie, his feature-film debut, premieres at Film Forum. (It will also run on HBO this winter.) An affectionate, deeply personal portrait of the late Richard Rogers, an experimental filmmaker who was also Olch's film professor at Harvard, it's already earned a Writer's Guild nomination for Best Documentary Screenplay. Interview talked to the multi-tasking director about juggling film and fashion, and the emotional experience of sifting through a departed friend's "creative artifacts."
Darrell Hartman: The Windmill Movie is about a guy who struggled for 25 years to make a film that was a completely honest portrait of himself. Is this always a hard thing to do? Or was it especially difficult for him?
Alexander Olch: I think it's a little bit of both. This guy had no...
Darrell Hartman: The Windmill Movie is about a guy who struggled for 25 years to make a film that was a completely honest portrait of himself. Is this always a hard thing to do? Or was it especially difficult for him?
Alexander Olch: I think it's a little bit of both. This guy had no...
- 6/16/2009
- Interview Magazine
Since you've already read Scott Macauley's fascinating interview with The Windmill Movie's Alex Olch in the Spring issue, you will definitely not want to miss the hilarious, genuine and provocative documentary-within-a-documentary premiering at Film Forum on Wednesday. Special Q & A's with Olch, Bob Balaban, Wallace Shawn & Susan Meiselas will follow several of the screenings. It's worth it simply for the knock-out technicolor shots of high-society bottoms on the 1980's Montauk beach, let alone the Big Ideas and Small Moments that comprise Olch's quest to honor his teacher's memory. The Film Society of Lincoln Center, in anticipation of the film's release, is also showing a retrospective on Rogers' life this week: Remembering...
- 6/15/2009
- by Alicia Van Couvering
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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