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Apr. 9th, 2010
Everyone Else (2009) NYT Crictics' Pick
Apr. 9th, 2010 06:58 am
Lars Eidinger and Birgit Minichmayr portray a young couple vacationing in Sardinia in the German film “Everyone Else.”
Perfectly Happy, Until They Venture Into the Outside World
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: April 9, 2010
“Everyone Else,” a sun-kissed German film about a young couple in love and in doubt, might not be perfect, but so much is right and true in this lovely, delicate work that it comes breathtakingly close. Written and directed by Maren Ade, it involves Gitti (Birgit Minichmayr) and Chris (Lars Eidinger), who are vacationing at his parents’ Sardinian villa. When the film opens, his sister is whisking her family off, leaving the couple alone. It’s an ideal setup for Gitti and Chris, who can’t keep their hands off each other, and in whose half-dressed bodies you can see and feel the heat of the island, the eroticism too. More
The Square (2008) NYT Critics' Pick
Apr. 9th, 2010 07:03 am
Apparition Films
David Roberts in “The Square.”
Sin and Comeuppance Down Under
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: April 9, 2010
If you’ve seen “No Country for Old Men” or “A Simple Plan” or any number of other, similar movies, you probably know that nothing good is likely to come from taking somebody else’s bag full of cash. Perhaps Ray and Carla, the adulterous couple at the center of “The Square,” haven’t seen these films, or have drawn the wrong lessons from them. After Carla comes across a satchel full of money that her loutish, vaguely criminal husband has stashed in a crawl space in the laundry room of their house, she and Ray concoct a plan to snatch it and get out of town. What else would they do? And what could possibly go wrong? More
See What I'm Saying NYT Critics' Pick
Apr. 9th, 2010 07:19 am
The comedian and actor CJ Jones in “See What I’m Saying.”
Deaf, and Trying to Make It in Showbiz
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: April 9, 2010
Complex, candid and all-but-essential viewing for hearing audiences, Hilari Scarl’s intrepid debut feature, “See What I’m Saying: The Deaf Entertainers Documentary,” educates without lecturing and engages without effort. More
Tea Baggers and Faux News
Apr. 9th, 2010 09:33 amBoth the Tea Baggers and Faux News continually forget that if it wuz 1786, they'd be whining about how much better everything was under Good King George.
It wuz the libruls, not the wingnuts, that threw the tea in Boston Harbor, although there may have been a tea merchant or two mixed up in it.
It wuz the libruls, not the wingnuts, that threw the tea in Boston Harbor, although there may have been a tea merchant or two mixed up in it.