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...Take Slasher, for example, Allison Moore's comedy about an Austin, Texas, waitress who gets picked to play the last girl killed in a low-budget slasher film. Moore shows a real feel for the milieu: the Austin independent filmmaking scene, where cowboy film geeks meet up with cheeseball Hollywood wannabes. The encounter in which the film's hack director (a brilliantly smarmy Mark Setlock) discovers his star, Sheena, in a Hooters-style hangout, enlists her for his film and promptly gets rolled by her in contract negotiations, is as sharp and modulated a satire of Hollywood hucksterism as anything...
...things like comparably tame horror movies, historical books about war, and sensationalist news stories about gangsters. Although the American psyche has probably always been just as obsessed with violence as today, viewers before the Vietnam era wouldn’t be able to get their fix of it from film and television then like they can now. When people saw the violence in Vietnam and the caskets coming home, the response was both shock and anger; it was these feelings that culminated in the peace movement that has been so emblemized in American history. What has changed since then?Everything...
...just Pittsburgh, tiny paychecks and “the work of pathetic, lazy morons.” James despises his job at Adventureland Amusement Park, but his summer brightens when he meets smart, funny co-worker Em Lewin (Kristen Stewart, “Twilight”). The film tries to tackle more adult themes, such as true love and marital fidelity, but it retains a high school level of maturity in which boner jokes and punches in the nuts abound. Although the characters are allegedly four years older than the high schoolers of “Superbad...
...than makes up for the loss, making “Examined Life” 87 minutes of excitement for the mind—with plenty of food for thought left for the walk home from the theatre.The 30-year old Canadian writer/director Astra Taylor has used the medium of film to explore philosophy before. In her 2005 documentary “Žižek!” she followed Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek on his lecture tour, and he makes an appearance again in “Examined Life?...
...reality, even if that person is as seemingly insane as Mike Tyson. James Toback ’66 is particularly attuned to this power. After Harvard, he went on to become a highly controversial Hollywood screenwriter and director, meeting Mike Tyson on the set of his 1985 film “The Pick Up Artist.” There they began the friendship that would finally yield Toback’s most recent film, “Tyson,” a documentary that peels away the seemingly infinite layers surrounding the legendary boxer, revealing an alarmingly human specimen coiled...