washingtonpost.com - Ann Hornaday on MoviesAnn Hornaday on MoviesLaughing Across Color Lines- April 24, 2005 It just might be that, however segregated live comedy has become, at the movies we're at least getting together and laughing together.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9494-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/m... 'Fever Pitch': Farrellys' Ground Ball to Left Field- April 24, 2005 Mostly due to bad casting, "Fever Pitch" all but completely squanders its potential to be romantic or comedic.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35878-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/m... Not The Best 'Hustle'- April 24, 2005 "Kung Fu Hustle" is one of the most buzzed-about comedies to come out this year, but for some reason -- the weather The idiots in the next row talking all the way through the movie -- its charms eluded me.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8065-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/m... 'Hostage': Let's Make a Dull- April 24, 2005 "Hostage," a new action thriller starring Bruce Willis in the same role he's been playing for nearly 20 years, features a plot twist involving a police negotiator who himself becomes a hostage in the course of a tense standoff. But by the time Willis's character saves this considerably long day, it's filmgoers who will no doubt feel like prisoners, as a movie that promises to be a taut nail-biter devolves into the kind of silly, overblown climax parodied so beautifully by Robert Altman in "The.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25637-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/... 'Turtles Can Fly' Soars- April 24, 2005 Welcome to the nasty, brutish world of Satellite (Soran Ebrahim), a precocious 13-year-old boy who lives in a makeshift village of Kurdish refugees on the Iraq-Turkey border. Satellite, so named because he knows how to install TV antennas, is part father-figure, part mayor in a community that, though overseen from afar by a few elders, seems to be populated almost entirely by lost, dispossessed children.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8046-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/m... 'Ballad': A Shadowy Father Figure- April 24, 2005 The title characters of "The Ballad of Jack and Rose" are a father and daughter but, living in Edenic isolation on an unnamed island, gazing with languid seductiveness at each other, they often resemble lovers in this tale of mixed signals, blurry boundaries and letting go.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17457-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/... 'Peacock': A Radiant Coming Out- April 24, 2005 Veteran Chinese cinematographer Gu Changwei makes an impressive directorial debut with "Peacock," a film that makes an equally strong impact as family drama and political allegory. The man who photographed such revered contemporary classics as "Red Sorghum," "Ju Dou" and "Farewell, My Concubine" proves himself to be as astute and sensitive a storyteller as those films' venerated directors, Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige. In making an epic drama that clocks in at just under 2 12 hours, Gu has set...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3030-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/m... Dumbness Is the Downside in 'The Upside of Anger'- April 24, 2005 To watch "The Upside of Anger" is to ask that timeless cinematic question: Where have you gone, James L. Brooks Of course Brooks's most recent film, "Spanglish," raised the same query, but think back to "As Good as It Gets" and you realize that Brooks remains the master of tart, adult dramedy. "The Upside of Anger," written and directed by Mike Binder, clearly aspires to be a Brooksian comedy of manners, but instead it feels like a retread of several better movies, with a nastier, more...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45533-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/... 'Voices in Wartime,' Drowned Out by Din- April 24, 2005 Does anyone remember Poets Against the War That was the group formed in 2003, on the eve of the American invasion of Iraq, when first lady Laura Bush organized a White House poetry symposium and promptly canceled it when word got out that several poets intended to criticize the impending war.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55170-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/... San Francisco Tweet- April 24, 2005 Judy Irving's "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill," is an engrossing, delightful film about a flock of wild parrots living in San Francisco.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25750-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/... |