items tagged with Jim Jarmusch
Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Movies
Category: Reviews
2005-09-14 00:00:00
THE ARISTOCRATS
For those who don’t yet know, The Aristocrats is a literal one-joke movie. In Paul Provenza’s documentary, nearly a hundred comedians re-tell an old vaudeville gag about a group of performers whose act consists of them performing the filthiest, most repellant stage atrocities imaginable – some immoral, most illegal, all unimaginable (or so it would seem). The performers’ stage moniker? The Aristocrats.
Read More About A Dirty Job, But Somebody’S Gotta Describe It ...: "The Aristocrats" And "Broken Flowers"...
Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Movies
Category: Feature Stories
2005-02-16 00:00:00
After the announcement of last year’s Oscar nominations, in which the Academy made almost shockingly inspired choices across the board, this year’s slate of nominees was bound to be a more predictable lot; barring a few minor surprises – the director and screenplay nods for Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake (still unseen by me) chief among them – voters opted for traditional, safe choices in 2004, especially among the squarer-than-usual Best Picture contenders.
Read More About 2005's Alternative Oscars: The Shoulda-Been Contenders...
Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Movies
Category: Reviews
2004-08-18 00:00:00
COLLATERAL
Collateral’s plot is so High Concept you can barely believe it hasn’t been filmed before: A cab driver (Jamie Foxx) unknowingly picks up a hired assassin (Tom Cruise) as a fare, and spends a long, strange evening chauffeuring him from one execution site to another, all the while trying to prevent the killer from performing his rounds without, of course, getting himself killed in the process.
Read More About Despite Contrivances, "Collateral" Is Spectacular Summertime Fare: Also, "Little Black Book," "De-Lovely," And "Coffee & Cigarettes"...
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