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Photographing philosophy
Would you like to see my girlfriend?” Nicholas Vreeland asks. Considering that Vreeland has been a chaste Buddhist monk for the past 28 years, you can bet that this “girlfriend” is not of the typical kind. Indeed, it is not. Vreeland’s girlfriend is a camera...
Learning the wrong lessons
An employee of the Chicago public school system, ha-cha seventh-grade educator Elizabeth, portrayed by Cameron Diaz in Bad Teacher, blows most of her classroom time showing her students (whose names she never learns) movies such as Lean on Me, Stand and Deliver and...
Maid in Mexico
Luxury hotels are bizarre, magical places. They are like hermetically sealed chambers where every possible amenity has been accounted for: Food, drink, entertainment, even...
Three young men seek identity in ‘Oriented’
As the American presidential race continues to heat up, more and more Americans divide themselves across party lines and political predilections. Yet, few see...
Define ‘run’
At this point, there is just one Liam Neeson movie: Taken a Non-Stop Run All Night to Walk Among the Tombstones 3. Neeson isn’t in the midst of some Nicolas Cage supernova, in which an actor’s need to perpetually work and “get dat paper” creates an acting black hole ...
Why, Steve and Tina, why?
In a recent Entertainment Weekly interview, Steve Carell recalls costar Tina Fey telling him: “I just want to go and do a movie and hang off the end of a car.” This, of course, is the problem with being associated with successful, classy, verbally driven ...
Home viewing: Pride streams
It was President Bill Clinton who first declared June “Gay & Lesbian Pride Month.” That was in 2000. In 2009, President Barack Obama opened...
Turtles all the way down
The play’s the thing, and for Conrad Earp (Edward Norton), a Tennessee Williams-type with a predilection for Tom of Finland cowboy art, his new...
Reel to Reel | Week of June 28, 2012
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER See full review page 49. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. THE AVENGERS 3D A team of superheroes including Iron Man, Captain America, the Hulk and Thor unite to save the world. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony ...
Stilled action
Like passionless martial coitus or a zombie doing Zumba, Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass simply go through the motions with Jason Bourne, a...
Rocking tour
When Peter Mortimer premiered his first movie Scary Faces 10 years ago at the Boulder Theater, the local filmmaker had his doubts...
