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...caricature. He arrived in New York at age 18 (after dropping out of high school when he cracked a teacher's skull in a fit of anger), and found fame and a good living almost immediately with his witty, irreverent ink portraits for glossy magazines such as the New Yorker and Vanity Fair. By 1930, when he married Rosemonde Cowan, a popular Broadway dancer and choreographer, he was a fixture in Manhattan's smart...
...himself. Nor does the protagonist, Chris Wilton (Jonathan-Rhys Meyer) seem like a caricature of the auteur. For once, a Woody Allen film seems less about the man, and more about the nature of passion and obsession.Not only has Allen abstracted himself from the plot, but the native New Yorker has also moved his setting from his usual Manhattan streets to a romanticized London, which both affords him a brilliant group of young British actors and opens up cinematographic potential to explore the cavernous Tate Modern and the idyllic British countryside. “Match Point” tells...
...very discouraging account of the war in Iraq so far, from its flawed inception to its chaotic daily execution. Packer, a staff writer for The New Yorker, begins as "an ambivalently prowar liberal", siding with Iraqi exile friends in their hatred of Saddam but skeptical of the Bush Administration neo-conservatives who thought Iraq could easily be transformed into a pro-American democracy. In Packer's deeply persuasive telling, their false assumptions and inadequate planning ensure that the war will procede down a path into deepening chaos, and it does...
...Final Clubs, what kind of clothes a bunch of d-bags wear, what happens when you drive around a lot, or which 15 random seniors are more “interesting” than you, the FM staff dispatches one of its star investigative reporters to get in New Yorker mode and produce a mad long “Scrutiny.” Wait, there are some people talking about a fictional women’s center that will probably never get built? Stop the presses...
...incendiary indictment of the American government’s escalating use of violence against civil rights activists, Vietnam War protesters, and “hippies” of all stripes. Released to almost universal derision, the film’s recent DVD reissue, by Project X and New Yorker Video, endeavors to expose “Punishment” to the large audience it so richly deserves. The film is shot in the style of a documentary, but the events it depicts belong to an imaginary dystopian future. Political dissent has been criminalized and suspected dissidents are arrested and prosecuted...