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...what he's doing. One of the difficulties of boys joining gangs is that they often celebrate an ideal of who can be the most ruthless, the most destructive, the most violent. There's this violent ideal that boys can fall into, and by following that ideal it sort of assuages their negative self-feelings. Absolutely this is a time to intervene, while at the same time trying to find out why he's drawn to that ideal in the first place...
...Before a packed house at the 800-seat Debussy Theatre, Tarantino bounds onstage with the sort of animal and intellectual energy seen in few films here this year. Without much prodding from Ciment, he pinwheels opinions, more or less praising the new flop movie Speed Racer (bravo, brave Q.T.!), and railing against film composers, coming in at the last moment to "save" a film with their intrusive underscoring: "Who the f--- is this guy, throwin' his sh-t over my movie...
...right to fight on." But they know the time is rapidly approaching when the two campaigns are going to have to begin peace talks. And they anticipate, given everything they have learned about the Clintons, that the negotiations won't be easy. "We're expecting sort of the worst here," says a top Obama adviser...
Abel and Junon Vuillard (Jean-Paul Roussillon and Catherine Deneuve) convene their three grown children (Anne Consigny, Mathieu Amalric, Melvil Poupaud) and their kids for the sort of holiday games you'll find in many family reunions: musical beds, generational scores-settling and the ripping off of psychic scabs. Amid all the melodrama - Junon has liver cancer and needs a bone-marrow transplant from someone of her blood - the conversation is bantering, often affectionate. In this chatty 2-1/2hr. film, Desplechin (Kings and Queen) seems to be going for the old French New Wave recipe of emotional warmth...
...group; after all, I still haven't figured out the purpose or proper response to a Super Poke. Top of the list for a 34-44 year-old living in the suburbs with similar interests to me is the grown-up social network called gather.com, which is sort of like a slow-going, pared-down Facebook...