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Since his graduation day forty years ago, Malick’s genius and idiosyncratic personality have given him a completely unique place in modern film. The 62-year-old Malick does not agree to interviews with the press and his contract stipulates that no current photos of him can be released for publicity. The timeline of his life, or what the public knows of it, is mainly a series of basic facts, interrupted about once every decade by the release of a revolutionary movie...
...indie” thing to do! Earlier this year, Bloc Party put out a sliced-and-diced “Silent Alarm,” Death From Above 1979 gave the thumbs-up to a supefluous retooling of their last jaunt, and now, everyone’s favorite genius-posing-as-a-poseur, Beck, has jumped on the remixwagon. The results are tepid, at best.“Guero” was unjustly derided. It was a grower. It had to be seen in all its aspects before it could be properly understood, and was shot down by the critical...
This week, in keeping with our list issue theme, Arts invited a core group of Pop Screen writers to nominate their favorite video of the year that we had not previously covered. Some took repeated viewings to appreciate their genius, others were simply unnoticed on their initial release. Rectifying their previous neglect, in my last act as Music Editor, I present the official Pop Screen Sleepers...
...sitting down, we’re giving you a standing ovation,” says an excited Max Bialystock (Nathan Lane) after an impromptu dance performance by the voluptuous secretary, Ulla (Uma Thurman). Such bawdy, off-color humor is characteristic of Mel Brooks’ comedic genius, the writer/director of classics as “Spaceballs,” “Blazing Saddles,” and “Robin Hood: Men in Tights.” His newest venture is the film adaptation of his monstrously successful Broadway comedy musical, “The Producers...
...description alone, it is clear that Kogan is a rare combination; he is a Harvard- (he graduated medical school in 1981) and Cornell-educated psychiatrist as well as an accomplished pianist who studied at Juilliard. He has starred in a DVD about the life and work of tormented musical genius Robert Schumann. But he is also a practicing and high-profile psychiatrist. To possess such a chimerical skill set is remarkable, but Kogan’s ability to meld such disparate disciplines in one lecture is what keeps his audiences riveted. Kogan argues in an interview that the combination...