A Little Something for Everyone: Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan
“I never see you lose yourself.”
Author: Robert Ecksel
Robert Ecksel lives in New York City.
Documentaries · Music & Musicals
Out of His Head: Vikram Jayanti’s The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector
“I’m dealing in rock ‘n’ roll. I’m, like, I’m not a bona fide human being.” — Phil Spector
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“True Glamour Never Fades”: Michael Sucsy’s Grey Gardens (HBO)
“Two roads diverged in yellow woods,and pondering one, I took the other,and that made all the difference.”
Actors & Personalities · Documentaries
“Just Another Man”: On James Toback’s Tyson
“Toback, to his credit, and despite the empathy he feels toward his subject, doesn’t pull his punches.”
Faust Goes to Hollywood: Revisiting John Frankenheimer’s Seconds
“Think, for Pete’s sake. What have you got now?”
Activist & Political · Reviews
Fascism, American Style: Revisiting Kazan and Schulberg’s A Face in the Crowd
“Goodnight, you stupid idiots. Goodnight, you miserable slobs.”
The Human Monster: On Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood
“There are no good and bad men; there are only damaged men … “
Shalom? Auf Wiedersehen! Werner Herzog’s Invincible
“Invincible” Herzog does it again
Out of Focus Auto Focus: Hogan’s Hero becomes Rerun Victim in a few delirious years.
Hogan’s Hero becomes Rerun Victim in a few delirious years.
Activist & Political · Directors · Documentaries
Bowling a Strike for Columbine: Michael Moore hits the screen with both barrels blasting
Michael Moore hits the screen with both barrels blasting.
Undisputed: Wesley Snipes vs. Ving Rhames
Cinema meets the sweet science at the multiplex, and nobody gets knocked out After a long hot summer of mismatches in 2002, we finally got to see a competitive heavyweight[…]
Actors & Personalities · Reviews
Two Hour Movie (Starring Robin Williams in One Hour Photo)
Robin Williams morphs again, and still nobody’s laughing We all have met a man like Seymour Parrish at some point in our lives. Whether he was refilling our slurpies at[…]
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