Assignment 6: Knock on Woody
Every week, we will be posting a prompt related to cinephilia, and some of our founding members will contribute a short response. Hopefully you, our dear readers, will feel compelled to respond in our comment section as well. This week’s prompt was:
Write about five great Woody Allen films
We actually discussed and divied up the films [...]
LOS ABRAZOS ROTOS (2009) is a little too straight
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar
Regal Arbor, 1/17/10, 3:10pm
I was fairly excited for Almodóvar’s new picture. I consider him to be the most “European Art Cinema”-type auteur still working. His most recent film, Volver, was an alright film (and a beautiful love letter to Penélope Cruz’s finer qualities), and the one before that, La mala educación [...]
NINE (2009) goes 0.5 too far
Dir. Rob Marshall
Cinemark Tinseltown 15 (Beaumont, TX), 12/29/09, 11:30am
I have managed to see two astonishing misfires at the cinema in recent weeks. The first was Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones at Butt-Numb-a-Thon, and the second is Rob Marshall’s Nine, a remake of Federico Fellini’s masterpiece, 8 1/2. Many who have seen Nine do [...]
