February 2009 Reviews

These are the reviews

and other pieces I'm

working on this month.

Amazon DVDs: The Sidney Poitier Collec- tion (Edge of the City,

A Patch of Blue, Some-

thing of Value, and A

Warm December) [four-disc set], The Guitar (with Saffron Burrows), Magnificent Obsession - Criterion Collection, and 60 Minutes Presents - Obama: All Access.

Amazon Theatricals: Gomorrah (Italian mob master-

piece), Two Lovers (James Gray directs Gwyneth Paltrow

and Joaquin Phoenix), He's Just Not That into You (with

Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Aniston, Ben Affleck, etc.),

and Confessions of a Shopaholic (with Isla Fisher).  

 

Still playing: Doubt, Milk, Notorious, Rach- el Getting Married, and Waltz with Bashir.

GreenCine: I'll be liveblogging the Oscars—and I'm psyched. 

Seattle Film Blog: The second part of my Wendy and Lucy review, an interview with Medicine for Melancholy director Barry Jenkins, and revised editions of The Fall, Glastonbury, Histoire(s) du Cinema, The Landlord, The Pornographers, Pusher II, This Is Gary McFarland, The Treasures of Long Gone John, Mal- funkshun - The Andrew Wood Story, Mysterious Skin, 4, and Frozen (new and improved links).

Still playing: Frozen River, Gran Torino, and Wendy and Lucy. 

Video Librarian: Chris & Don - A Love Story, Freddie Hubbard - One of a Kind, Public Enemy - Revolverlution Tour: Australia 2003 [click here for my reviews of It Takes a Nation: London Invasion 1987 and Live from the House of Blues], Elvis - Return to Tupelo, The Breast Cancer Diaries, Lioness, Pregnant in America, 

and We Want Roses Too.

 

Click here for my interview with Oscar nominee Courtney Hunt.

Endnote: Martine Carol image from the Seattle International Film Festival. Lola Montès plays SIFF Cinema from Feb 20-26. For more information, please click the link or call (206) 633-7151. Incidentally, I didn't name my cat Lola after Carol, Marlene Dietrich's showgirl in The Blue Angel, or any other celluloid Lola, but after the Kinks song.