These are the reviews
and other assignments
I'm working on this month.
Amazon DVDs: The Small Back Room - Criterion Collection (Powell & Pressburger), Billy the Kid (profile of a 15-year-old with Aspergers syndrome), The Last Days of Left Eye, and Le Deuxième Soufflé (Jean-Pierre Melville directs Lino Ventura).
Amazon Theatricals: Burn After Reading, Flash of Genius (Greg Kinnear's inventor takes on the auto industry), Igor (animated fable featuring the voices of John Cusack and Steve Buscemi), Battle in Seattle (docudrama about the WTO protests), Miracle at St. Anna (Spike Lee takes on WWII), Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (with Michael Cera and Kat Dennings), and I.O.U.S.A. (Patrick Creadon's debt-oriented follow-up to Wordplay).
Still playing or yet to open: Bottle Shock, Brideshead Revisited, Hamlet 2,
Man on Wire, Ping Pong Playa, The Rocker, and Lakeview Terrace (9/19).
Seattle Film Blog: The continuation of an interview with Frozen River's Courtney Hunt and the start of one with Towelhead's Alan Ball.
Video Librarian: Absolutely Irish, The Blue Elephant, Edgar & Ellen: Mad Scientists—Season One, Volume One, Jon & Kate Plus Ei8ht: Seasons 1 + 2, Last Days of Left Eye, and Words for the Dying (John Cale and Brian Eno).
Powell image from The BFI, from whom I just won a copy of David Mamet's Bambi vs. Godzilla. Thanks, BFI!
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