June 2008 Reviews

These are the reviews and other assignments I'm working on this month.

Amazon DVDs: Recount (HBO docudrama with Kevin Spacey and Tom Wilkinson), For One More Day (Michael Imperioli and Ellen Burstyn reunite for another Mitch Albom adaptation), The Criterion Collection - Classe Tous Risques (click here for my Seattle Film Blog review), The Criterion Collection - The Furies (Anthony Mann directs Walter Huston and Barbara Stanwyck), The Criterion Collection - Mishima: A Life in Four Parts (Paul Schrader directs Ken Ogata), and Bonneville (with Jessica Lange and Joan Allen). 

Amazon Theatricals: The Great Buck Howard (with John Malkovich and Colin Hanks) and Wanted (with James McAvoy). 

Coming soon: Baghead, Elite Squad, and Gonzo.

Fuzz.com: Robert Pollard - Is Off to Business and Joan as Policewoman - To Survive.

IndieWIRE: Coverage of SIFF's second half. 

Seattle Film Blog: Capsules of Bigger, Stronger, Faster*, The Great Buck Howard, Zidane, a 21st Century Portrait, and Derek and Baghead. Also, a look at favorite film lines, a preview of a Hal Ashby retrospective, thoughts about a beloved song from an ill-fated film, and a visit to the set of Lynn Shelton's next feature, Humpday. 

Above right: Dexter Fletcher in Derek Jarman's Caravaggio (1986). 

Video Librarian: Surfwise (Doug Pray's follow-up to Scratch), Dangerous Dance (from Israel), Til Death Do Us Part (documentary about women who killed their abusers), Keali'i Reich-el - Live in Concert, and Limp Bizkit - Rock Im Park 2001. 

Performed by Robert Wyatt, "Moon in June" comes from Soft Machine's Third. Images: The New York Times and Urban Image.