February 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 Jen-

kins, 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 (same reviews; 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.

 

Please 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 (321 Mercer St.) 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 about the cross-dresser.