MARC Forster's film version of Khaled Hosseini's interna tional best seller "The Kite...
COPPOLA: THE PLODFATHER
I understood two words of "Youth Without Youth": "The End." I don't want to say this thing is complicated, but Tom Stoppard just called to beg for an explanation. Francis Ford Coppola's first film in 10 years is just your ordinary philosophical/spiritual/academic/sci-fi/mystical/romantic/linguistic/Nazis are chasin' me/I'm aging in reverse and my girlfriend is 10,000 years old fable. I apologize for all the elements I'm leaving out, but my editor ordered me to keep this piece under 40 million words. Dominic Matei (Tim Roth) is a 70-year-old Bucharest man having bad dreams while he tries to finish his book about the origins of language. On...more >
IRAQ 'N' ROLL ON BAND'S MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR
AFTER making the rounds of international festivals for more than a year, "Half Moon" is getting a welcome commercial run in New York. The aging Kurdish musician Mamo (Ismail Ghaffari) and his many sons borrow a school bus for the trip from Iran to Iraqi Kurdistan to perform at a festival. It would be Mamo's first appearance in his homeland in 35 years. As in his previous films ("A Time for Drunken Horses" and "Turtles Can Fly"), Iranian-born director-writer Bahman Ghobadi mixes a metaphorical script with gorgeous visuals. By terms moving and funny, the story reaches its apex when Half Moon, a beautiful young woman played by Golshifteh...more >
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IT'S THRILL 'I AM'
By KYLE SMITH
December 14, 2007 - The must-see holiday blockbuster, especially for New Yorkers. Will Smith is the Last Man on Earth, a soldier/scientist left in a deserted Manhattan trying to solve the riddle of the virus that...more >
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UPDATED ALVIN A GYP-MUNK
By LOU LUMENICK
December 14, 2007 - I was a fan of "Alvin and the Chip munks" going back to their epony mous 1958 novelty hit "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)," but this partially animated...more >
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THE SINGING REVOLUTION
By V.A. MUSETTO
December 14, 2007 - HAIL, hail Estonia - land of the brave and free. The documentary "The Singing Revolution" details how the tiny (1.3 million people) but strategically placed European country survived...more >
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LOOK
By V.A. MUSETTO
December 14, 2007 - ADAM Rifkin's "Look" begins with distressing news: There are 30 million surveillance cameras in the United States, producing 4 billion hours of video each week. On any given day, the...more >
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A WALK INTO THE SEA
By V.A. MUSETTO
December 14, 2007 - FILMMAKERS' obsession with Andy Warhol never seems to fade. The latest entry is "A Walk Into the Sea," a documentary about Danny Williams, one of the artist's lesser-known disciples...more >
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I AM BLOCKBUSTER
WILL SMITH CAN SAVE THE WORLD
By KYLE SMITH
December 13, 2007 - MANHATTAN, five years from now. The island is overrun by hordes of frighteningly malformed brain-damaged mouth-breathers (though unlike today's crowds they are not carrying maps and asking...more >
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NANKING
By LOU LUMENICK
December 12, 2007 - EVERYONE knows about the Holocaust, but few today have heard about what was infamous as the Rape of Nanking, when 200,000 residents of what was then China's capital were massacred by invading...more >
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DRECK THE HALLS . . .
By KYLE SMITH
December 12, 2007 - THE cold void of January can't come fast enough if it means an end to releases like “The Perfect Holiday." This sticky family comedy features Gabrielle Union as the ex-wife of an...more >
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NY CRITICS HONOR COENS' 'COUNTRY'
By LOU LUMENICK
December 11, 2007 - 'NO Country for Old Men" copped best picture honors yesterday from the New York Film Critics Circle, which also cited Joel and Ethan Coen as best directors and writers of the...more >
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THE KITE RUNNER
A TALE OF AFGHANISTAN BEFORE THE CONFLICTS HUMANIZES KABUL
By SARA STEWART
December 9, 2007 - When adapting “The Kite Runner," a novel beloved by basically the entire world, it's important to nail the details. “There's a scene where the father is in the hospital," says...more >
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