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'New York, I Love You': Out-Of-Towners, By Kurt Loder
16 October 2009 8:53 AM, PDT
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High-concept anthology gets lost in Gotham.
Orlando Bloom in "New York, I Love You"
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A revved-up writer (Ethan Hawke) improvises a mad rap for a beautiful stranger in the night (Maggie Q), only to learn she's uniquely immune to his come-on. Meanwhile, in a downtown bar, a sardonic professor (Andy Garcia) teaches some new tricks to an over-confident young thief (Hayden Christenson). And a geeky student (Anton Yelchin), dumped by his girlfriend (Blake Lively), winds up squiring a disabled blind date (Olivia Thirlby) to a big dance in her wheelchair — and then gets a wild surprise while rolling her back home.
The new mini-movie collection "New York, I Love You" has some cleverly turned stories and lively performances. But unlike its 2006 predecessor, "Paris, I Love You," it displays only an intermittent affinity for its target metropolis on the part of the 11 directors who weighed in on it.
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A Terse Interview With Larry David
17 June 2009 7:53 AM, PDT
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Jewish-American funnymen Larry David and Woody Allen, the "last of the schlemiels" as a recent New York magazine cover story dubbed them, have technically collaborated three times now. David -- the co-creator of "Seinfeld" and HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" (its seventh season will premiere this fall) -- had bit roles in Allen's "Radio Days" (as a Communist neighbor) and his segment of the "New York Stories" omnibus (as a theater manager). But in the new comedy "Whatever Works," the Woodster's long-awaited return to NYC filmmaking, David slouches front and center as Boris Yellnikoff, a misanthropic former physicist who takes an impressionable Southern runaway (Evan Rachel Wood) under his wing. My ears hadn't yet popped as I landed in Oklahoma City for the deadCENTER Film Festival a mere 15 minutes before talking to David by phone. Much like his other interviews, the guy certainly doesn't give journalists much to work with, which I soon called him on.
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- Aaron Hillis
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Tokyo! Review
4 March 2009 1:45 PM, PST
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The producers of Tokyo!, three short films by two Frenchmen and a South Korean, aim to do for Japan’s metropolis what New York Stories did for the Big Apple or Paris Je T’Aime for the City of Lights. That the two Frenchmen are indie darling Michel Gondry and former film critic/Pola X director Leos Carax, and the South Korean Bong Joon-Ho, who made an international splash with The Host, would seem to lend these three very different takes on a single subject some serious cache. Unfortunately, only two directors rise to the occasion, le
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Gondry vs. Carax: The Battle for "Tokyo!"
4 March 2009 4:52 AM, PST
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From "New York Stories" to "Paris je t'aime," the geocentric omnibus film has become a popular blank canvas for directors to freely experiment in the short-form medium. In the titular-set triptych "Tokyo!", director Michel Gondry ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind") fashions "Interior Design," about an ambitious young filmmaker and his listless girlfriend, who begins to sit around like a piece of furniture... literally. Leos Carax ("Pola X") flings "Merde" at the screen, an absurdist paranoid comedy about a sewer-dwelling monster (Denis Lavant) who terrorizes the Japanese, and while we love Bong Joon-Ho ("The Host"), we won't discuss his segment since he wasn't around to talk about it. I took turns asking similar questions to the self-proclaimed "narcissist" Gondry and the self-proclaimed "pretentious" Carax with -- like any anthology film, appropriately -- wildly mixed results.
Michel Gondry
What was your first trip to Tokyo like?
I went there 12 years ago
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