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...stagnancy of their studio setting.Perhaps even more disappointing than the photography is the full “stitched-together” film. While the museum plays two of the short films, each on continuous loop, on a rotating daily schedule, the original “Pine Flat” film??��playing for a final time at the Harvard Film Archive on October 14–is a two-hour montage comprised of all 12 short films. Although this iteration is Lockhart’s original artistic vision for the project, the whole stands as less than...

Author: By Jeremy S. Singer-vine, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Dream of Rural Still Life | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

Cage and Peña’s performances generally stay within the realm of plausible reality, but they are upstaged by the intense and believable portrayals of their wives, Donna McLoughlin (Maria Bello) and Allison Jimeno (Maggie Gyllenhaal). The film??��s sense of anguish comes from scenes of uncertain waiting, where these women wonder if their husbands met the same fate as hundreds of other rescue workers when the towers collapsed...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WTC Appeals to Heart, Not Mind | 8/11/2006 | See Source »

...film??��s director and writer, Allen gets plenty of comedic mileage out of the strangers-in-a-strange-land shtick. However, a strong trepidation lies beneath the laughs. Excluding “Match Point,” “Scoop” is the only movie Allen has shot abroad in his thirty years of directing. Away from his New York stomping ground, he’s the new kid on the block, and he seems nervous about ending up as the crass “Ugly American” among an old-world city?...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Woody Allen, Ugly American | 7/28/2006 | See Source »

...with his other leading roles, Allen’s Sid isn’t so much a character as an extension of Allen himself, a manifestation of the anxiety that ripples through the film??��s director. For once, that anxiety might be justified: the end of the film suggests that, while Sondra’s brusque American charm could breathe some welcome life into the London elite, cynical New Yorkers of Allen’s generation might not have a place in European high society...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Woody Allen, Ugly American | 7/28/2006 | See Source »

...character to do nothing short of—seriously—saving the world, ignoring the director’s metatextual presence is a lost cause. Even off-screen, he is visibly descriptive with his camera work, framing original point-of-view shots and probing angles that sustain the film??��s suspense...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: “Lady” Drowning in Cliché | 7/21/2006 | See Source »

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