The Collins Bar
Forget that what is now The "Collins Bar" is featured in "Taxi Driver" as a '70s Hell's Kitchen Bar, the…
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CANNES 2007 LINE-UP
CANNES 2007: OFFICIAL SELECTION OPENING FILM:"My Blueberry Nights," Hong Kong, Wong Kar Wai CLOSING NIGHT FILM:"The Age of Darkness," Canada,…
Essential Rolling Stone
The current issue of Rolling Stone (Issue 1024 – April 19,2007) is essential not just for its naughty cover with…
Cannes Buzz Begins
The Cohen Brothers new movie "No Country For Old Men" has been confirmed, and New Line’s fantasy film "The Golden…
GRINDHOUSE GLORY
City Cinemas Village East provided the appropriate venue for the New York premier of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s gloriously…
Little Dieter Needs To Fly
After seeing "Rescue Dawn," I finally got around to pulling down Herzog’s documentary "Little Dieter Needs To Fly," about Viet…
The Passing of a Giant
Premiere Magazine Goes Under It was announced last week that Premiere magazine will be shutting down. As a fan of…
My Flame Burns Blue
Joe Pass’s guitar announces Kurt Weil and Ira Gershwin’s “My Ship” with an arpeggio, played out of time, that Ella…
HIDING BEHIND INTEGRITY
Devin Faraci at CHUD.com penned this articulate editorial about a destructive element infecting online-film criticism. I share it here with…
Grading Cannes 2006:
“The Da Vinci Code” (Ron Howard) (C-) “The Wind That Shakes The Barley” (Ken Loach) (A-) “Colour…
The Filth And The Fury
Here’s what unhappy neocon mrudy34@comcast.net thought about my "Final Destination 3" review. "Leave it to a left wing nut to…
The Influence Of Potter
My review of "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" attracted some telling e-mails from Potter fans whose ability to…
Buzzing Movies
I’ve recently screened some very good movies to keep an eye out for. Don Roos’ "Happy Endings" is an especially…
Grading Cannes 2005
In the past 10 days I’ve seen 30 movies and interviewed a slew of directors and actors. Here’s a quick…
The Ugly Americans
The notoriously snotty American Pavillion (the hub for US representation at Cannes) has outdone itself this year by demanding 20…
Cannes ’05 Without Jetlag
Finally, I’ve met my dream of hitting the ground running at Cannes thanks to good advice about beating the normal…
COLE SMITHEY’S CLASSIC CINEMA
