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...Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a demonstration - worse, a celebration - of the dead end Hollywood movies have hit. Fortunately, Cannes offered a palate cleanser, a detoxification, in the form of Stuart Samuels' documentary Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream. It focuses on six films - El Topo, Night of the Living Dead, The Harder They Come, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Pink Flamingos and Eraserhead - that earned cult status in the 70s through midnight screenings at venues like Ben Barenholtz's Elgin Theatre in Manhattan...
...savor to Tommy Lee Jones' directorial debut, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, written by Guillermo Arriaga, of Amores Perros and 21 Grams fame. Or that Broken Flowers, with Jim Jarmusch directing Bill Murray, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone and Tilda Swinton, will launch that indie icon into the movie mainstream. Woody Allen's last film, Melinda Melinda, was a little better than his recent dogs. Perhaps Match Point, with Scarlett Johansson, will signal a return to his old ... competence...
Councillor David P. Maher warned against it, noting that several mainstream mayoral candidates could splinter the vote, enabling an extremist candidate...
...stints as a writer and an editor at the New York Times, Navasky defends the relevance of ideological magazines across the political spectrum. "To me the problem is too little opinion, not too much," he writes, arguing that some periodicals need to provide perspectives often slighted by the mainstream media's fixation on "official" news. Navasky brings a clear-eyed candor to discussing the lengths to which his magazine has gone to maintain its viability: he admits to appearing on Fox News's The O'Reilly Factor--a frequent target of the Nation's jeremiads--solely to boost circulation...
...frustrating to me that there was such a divide between the two theaters,” Donahue says. “I would love to find elements of both and to not have to confine myself to a commercial, mainstream or explicitly art theatre, but to be able to work with elements of both...