Runaway Shops Runaway Shops
Remember those great scenes in Blues Brothers 2000 that evoked the urban grit and soul of southside Chicago and Joliet? Well, sorry.
Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Marc Cooper
Boys, Toys and Girl Trouble in 1999’s Top Ten Boys, Toys and Girl Trouble in 1999’s Top Ten
It was, of course, predestined that the top-grossing movie of 1999 would be Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, which outstripped its closest competition by nearly $200 mill...
Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Ella Taylor
The Awful Truth The Awful Truth
Special thanks to Alison Mann.
Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Manohla Dargis
Independents’ Day Independents’ Day
The most important day in the history of American independent film was May 8, 1947, which witnessed the opening of a picture so personal--no, so heedlessly self-revelatory--that ...
Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Planetary Realignments Planetary Realignments
Last night a teenager killed himself below my bedroom window. I heard it happen: first a crescendo of police sirens coming up the avenue at two in the morning, then a crash.
Mar 9, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
On Leo, Gio and Tobey On Leo, Gio and Tobey
It's a sign of age: Mention 1985, and I will sometimes think you're talking about last year.
Mar 2, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Dog Days Dog Days
The first thing Jim Jarmusch asks you to do in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is to look up and down.
Feb 23, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Craven Idolatry Craven Idolatry
For someone who misspent his youth in film societies and revival houses, where mushrooms develop more readily than social skills, a job as a movie reviewer wonderfully eases the ...
Feb 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
To Her, With Love To Her, With Love
I like a filmmaker who walks you into a story.
Feb 10, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Original Valley Girl The Original Valley Girl
Bette Midler got her first starring role in the movies in 1979, playing the lead in The Rose, a thinly disguised biopic about Janis Joplin.
Feb 3, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans