The Brooklyn Rail
Critical Perspectives on Art, Politics and Culture
DEC 00-JAN 01
Film
Afterlife Beckett: prose in the footlights, plays on the big screen
by Alan LockwoodFilm
Recent genre-crossing productions of Samuel Beckett’s work, seen at the Classic Stage Company and at the New York Film Festival, continue presenting fresh interpretations to new audiences of the Nobel laureate’s writing, a decade after his death.
Pusan Express: The 5th Pusan International Film Festival (Oct. 6-14th, 2000)
by J. Scott BurgesonFilm
in Seoul, but every fall I turn into a superaction hero for a bad-ass week or two. Armed with oversized wrap-around sunglasses, a rack of pimp suits and an all-access press badge, I catch an express train down to the rugged southeast coast of the peninsula for the kimchi-hot Pusan International Film Festival.
Screening Chelsea Girls
by Karyn Riegal and Gregory BairdFilm
I think I was 16 when I had my first experimental film experience. Shortly after my mother told me the story of how my father managed to seduce her into his downtown apartment (on the 5th date) with promises of a private 8mm film screening of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, I convinced my father to haul out the projector.
Brooklyn on Film: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
by John Woods and Joe MartinFilm
Aside from several Italian horror movie directors, most folks might not consider Brooklyn a cinematic city. But fortunately for us, directors like Walter Hill, John Badham, Nick Gomez, Spike Lee have seen fit to represent for the rest of us.
No Winners Here: The Flawed Feminism of Girlfight
by Anju ReejhsinghaniFilm
Perhaps not since the Rocky phenomenon of the seventies and eighties has it been so profitable for writers, artists, producers, and filmmakers to exploit the world of boxing.
