Screening Room
October 15, 2010
Sorkin’s Rapid-Fire May Have Jumped the Gun: Thoughts on ‘The Social Network’ 5
by Sonya Chung
How can we have perspective on Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s 26 year-old founder, or the cultural power of Facebook, when the phenomena – both man and network – are clearly still evolving, in both our realities and our collective minds?
October 8, 2010
A Stew of Laziness: Ben Affleck’s The Town and the Elements of Bad Drama 9
by Kevin Hartnett
I find with bad movies that usually there comes a point at which I realize that no matter what follows, there’s little chance that the film is going to be good.
September 24, 2010
Coffee With James Franco 13
by Jeff Price
James Franco was in his own synch, the pleasure of recognition trailing every gesture, consciousness of that pleasure gleaming in his eyes. It was part and parcel to the thrill of his being there, the spectacle of someone who had believed in the love of an imagined audience, the romance of possibility. There was just one thing…
September 21, 2010
Remembering Ken Burns’s The Civil War: A Documentary of Difficult Ideas 1
by Darryl Campbell
By the standards of most “historical” documentaries, The Civil War lacks a certain testicular fortitude. It is, well, rather bookish.
September 2, 2010
Zen and the Art of Image Maintenance 6
by Lizzie Skurnick
Julia Roberts may star in the movie Eat, Pray, Love. But it’s Elizabeth Gilbert who’s turning in the performance of a lifetime.
August 25, 2010
Staff Pick: This is England 0
by Lydia Kiesling
At the start, the film’s world is shaped by Thatcher and the Falklands and council housing and having no money; the youth, as is their wont, are acting out and wearing silly clothes.
