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This Weeks Movie Reviews: United 93 Written and directed by Paul Greengrass. Starring Khalid Abdalla, Lewis Alsamari, David Alan Bashe, Omar Berdouni, Trish Gates, Kate Jennings Grant, Jamie Harding, Gregg Henry and Bill Walsh. Universal, 2006. R. 111 minutes. Sept. 11th, 2001, was so unthinkable that we don't even have a name for it. We refer to the attacks as "9/11" because the simple austerity of a calendar date reminds us how stunningly unprepared we were. It's the nominal equivalent of utter speechlessness. The terrible ingenuity of coordinated hijackings seemed beyond our comprehension, and this collective failure of imagination is made painfully obvious in the new film United 93. Read more...
Tristram Shandy A Cock and Bull Story: Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Written by Frank Cottrell Bryce, credited as Martin Hardy. Starring Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Kelly Macdonald, Jeremy Northam, Ian Hart, Naomie Harris, Shirley Henderson, Dylan Moran, Stephen Fry and Gillian Anderson. Revolution Films/Picturehouse, 2006. R. 91 minutes. Where to start with Michael Winterbottom's topsy turvy, madly funny, ingenious and inspired Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story? Should I tell you how good the actors are or how cleverly the not-quite-reality of the film is revealed? Shall I go in circles, starting in the middle and swinging back around to something approximating the beginning, as the film does Read more...
The Sisters Directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman. Executive produced by Carolyn S. Chambers. Starring Maria Bello, Erika Christensen, Mary Stuart Masterson, Elizabeth Banks, Eric McCormack, Rip Torn, Alessandro Nivola and Chris O'Donnell. Arclight Films, 2006. R. 113 minutes. Most of the action in Arthur Allan Seidelman's film, based on a play that is in turn "suggested by" Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters, takes place in a faculty lounge so ostentatious it doesn't simply suggest the characters' upper-crust world, it screams about it. Likewise, the characters in this tiresome psychodrama howl about their intentions, wounds and neuroses, and if they're not up to the hollering, Gary (Eric McCormack) is: A bitter politics professor, he hangs around saying the nasty things the others aren't quite willing to admit. Read more...
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