 Wednesday, May 29, 2002
The Importance of Being Earnest adapted by Oliver Parker
O.K., but Was It at Least a Designer Handbag?. In opening up Oscar Wilde's 1895 comic masterpiece, the director Oliver Parker has gone overboard, giving it extra visual accouterments that have a profoundly distracting effect. By Stephen Holden. [New York Times: Movies]
ATT and Cable Modem Owners
Ted Takes On Hollywood
United Nations Indigenous Media Network
Weaving a Global, Native Web. A new website is one of the many outreach programs of the United Nations' fledgling Indigenous Media Network, which hopes to serve the needs of native people the world over. Diana Michele Yap reports from New York. [Wired News] [The All Electric Media Weblog]
Roman Polanski at Cannes
Cannes Has Echoes of Polanski and the Man Himself. Since this year's film festival has been so much about alienation, it seems fitting that the competition includes Roman Polanski. By Elvis Mitchell. [New York Times: Movies]
Javier Corcuera
Social Injustice Seen Through a Spaniard's Slick Lens. This Spanish production jets around the world to look at what the director Javier Corcuera regards as prime examples of social injustice. By Dave Kehr. [New York Times: Movies]
Art World Satire
Being Someone Else: It's a Career Move. A deftly satisfying, comically coherent sendup of the world of art. By Lawrence Van Gelder. [New York Times: Movies]
Paul Cox: Nijinsky
As Shadows Lengthen on the Faun. Watching Paul Cox's impressionistic film based on the diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky, it is impossible not to contemplate with a shudder the shadowy line between art, ecstasy and psychosis. By Stephen Holden. [New York Times: Movies]
Petter Naess
How to Be (a Bit) Sensible About Mental Illness. If it weren't acted with such naturalistic precision, Petter Naess's small, good-natured film would be an indigestibly sugary slice of inspirational pie in the sky. By Stephen Holden. [New York Times: Movies]
CCNY Film Festival
City College Film Festival Peers Inside Many Cultures. Just like the students at the City College graduate program in media arts production, the films of the Cityvisions Film Festival are very different from the film school norm. By Dinitia Smith. [New York Times: Movies]
Faith of My Fathers by John McCain
Seeking a Film Deal, McCain Found Producers With a Dramatic Past. When Senator John McCain sold the film rights of this best-selling memoir, "Faith of My Fathers," he ran into a quagmire that is surprising even for Hollywood. By Rick Lyman and Ralph Blumenthal. [New York Times: Movies]
Barbara Kopple
Summer Place of Reality and Caviar Dreams. Barbara Kopple's four-hour documentary series offers a wide-eyed but also calculating portrait of a peculiarly American landscape. By Julie Salamon. [New York Times: Arts]
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