These are the reviews and assignments I'm working on this month.Amazon DVDs: A Passage to India (special features review), Strange Culture (with Tilda Swinton and Thomas Jay Ryan), Crazy Sexy Cancer, King Corn, Dangerous Crossing (with Jeanne Crain), and Father Knows Best - Season One [four-disc set].
Amazon Theatricals: My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar Wai goes Americana), Blindsight (six vision-impaired teens attempt Everest), Then She Found Me (Helen Hunt directs), and Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?
Still playing: Run Fat Boy Run, Snow Angels, Shelter,
Son of Rambow, and Standard Operating Procedure.
Film Comment: I offer a reader's comment about Tony Kaye's Lake of Fire.
[It's now available on DVD; don't miss it.]
Fuzz.com: CD reviews of Howlin Rain - Magnificent Fiend,
Big Dipper - Supercluster: The Anthology, Various Artists -
CHEM087CD + DVD (Chemikal Underground retrospective),
Mission of Burma - Vs., Vashti Bunyan - Some Things Just
Stick in Your Mind, Dark Meat - Universal Indians (17-piece
outfit from Athens, GA), Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours, and
an interview with Australian electro-pop duo the Presets.
SIFF: Several blurbs for the annual festival guide.
Seattle Film Blog: Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait (with music by Chemikal Underground act Mogwai) and A Chat with David Gordon Green continues.
[Zidane review to coincide with June 13-15 encore.]
Video Librarian: Caramel [click here for my Amazon review], Chantal - Live at the Pyramids, Congorama (Canadian indie), Fireworks Wednesday (Iranian drama), The Rabbit Is Me (once-banned East German entry from the DEFA library), PU-239 (HBO tele-film with Paddy Considine), Sonja (indie coming-of-age), King Corn, Sharkwater, Hannah Takes the Stairs [click here for my Seattle Film Blog review], Boarding Gate, Stanley Jordan Trio - The Paris Concert, Strange Culture [click here for my Amazon review], and The Air I Breathe [click here for my Amazon review].
Endnote: I've also been working on a top-secret music project
for a few months now. More details to come.... Zidane, A 21st
Century Portrait plays the Northwest Film Forum from April 4-11.
According to Peter Bradshaw, “Zidane is the best sports movie I
have ever seen and a wonderful film that brilliantly marries up a
daringly experimental style with a popular subject.” For more
information, please click here. Image from Between Planets.
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