Wednesday, April 01, 2009

April 2009 Reviews

Sometimes in April...

These are
the reviews
and other

pieces I'm
working
on this
month.

Amazon DVD: Crude Impact.

Amazon Profiles: Peter Falk, Norman Jewison, 

and Sidney Lumet for Armchair Commentary.

Amazon Theatricals: Hunger, acclaimed film about IRA leader Bobby Sands (with Michael Fassbender, above left), State of Play (remake of the British miniseries with Russell Crowe), and
Lemon Tree (with the always amazing Hiam Abbass).

Still playing (or yet to open): Confessions of a Shopaholic, Doubt, Gom-
orrah
, The Great Buck Howard, He's Just Not That into You, Milk, Rachel Get-
ting Married
, Sin Nombre, Sunshine Cleaning, Two Lovers, and Tyson.

Seattle International Film Festival: Thirteen blurbs 
for the program guide. My eighth year as copy contributor.

Seattle Film Blog: Silent Light, film number three from Mexico's Carlos Reygadas. Given time, I also intend to wrap up my interview with Trouble the Water's Tia Lessin before starting one with
Medicine for Melancholy's Barry Jenkins.

Still playing: Gran Torino.

Video Librarian: Battle in Seattle (click here for my Amazon review), Bird by Bird with Annie (a portrait of writer Anne Lamott), Kurtis Blow - The Hip Hop Anniversary Tour, Fashion in Film, Flavor Flav - Live in Concert, Trouble the Water (click here for my interview with Tia Lessin), and The World of the Doll Artist.

Endnote: Sometimes in April is the title of Raoul Peck's
fine HBO film about 1994's Rwandan genocide, starring The
Wire's Idris Elba. Hunger image from Time Out Sydney.

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