Don't Bother
[See “Avatar and the Flight from Reality” in The New Atlantis of Spring, 2010, under “Articles,” April 29, 2010]
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Is it possible to make a movie about reality TV that’s more cheesy than reality TV? Amazingly enough, it is.
The American distributors who refused an American market to Adrian Lyne’s new film version of Lolita until it was already booked for its first run on Showtime, the cable network (beginning on August 2), said that they did so on the grounds that the film was no good. Of course, these are the same people…
Body Shots, directed by Michael Cristofer and written by David McKenna, is really two movies in one, pulling in opposite directions—a fact which, whether it is intended as a kind of post-modern experiment or simply the result of incompetence, is fatal to its success. The first movie is a sort of latter-day comedy of manners,…
Jackie Chan’s First Strike, directed by Stanley Tong, is another example of the only kind of action film I seem to get any enjoyment out of anymore. Most of them are so artificial and unbelievable: special effects overwhelming the human element. But the remarkable Jackie Chan does action at the human level. This he gets…
A somewhat slight but funny and insightful look at the aftermath of two revolutions: that of Francisco Franco and that of the 1960s
Another exercise in politically progressive moral earnestness by John Sayles sinks under its own weight of good intentions.
