Posts Tagged ‘new yorker’
The Amazing Spider-Man.
Anthony Lane has a great line in his review of The Amazing Spider-Man which summarises my feelings about the film quite succinctly. He notes a wonderfully fun scene early on in which Parker hasn’t quite perfected his powers yet. In a New York subway carriage that proves to be the cause of some calamitous consequences, a girl’s top […]
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Tags: andrew garfield, anthony lane, batman, emma stone, marc webb, martin sheen, new yorker, spiderman
Crazy Kael.
I began and finished A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael today. It’s a nice little book, both easygoing and short whilst retaining a decent amount of insight. It’s written in transcript form based on an interview with Kael by a close friend – another, younger critic whose first form of contact with her was a letter […]
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Tags: a clockwork orange, boogie nights, eyes wide shut, full metal jacket, magnolia, midnight in paris, new yorker, paul thomas anderson, pauline kael, pretty woman, sex and the city, sopranos, stanley kubrick, the departed, there will be blood, west wing