http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/section.cfm?uid=61 Copyright 2009 New Haven Advocate TheOtherRoom.com CFML RSS Generator Tue, 17 Nov 2009 3:52:01 PM CST en-us Tue, 17 Nov 2009 3:52:01 PM CST http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15550 *** 1/2 Precious Directed by Lee Daniels. Written by Geoffrey Fletcher. With Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique and Paula Patton. (R) Weighing in with the year's most cumbersome title — the complete title is Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire — this long-awaited... By Ann Lewinson http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15550 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 3:52:03 PM CST http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15453 ** Pirate Radio Written and directed by Richard Curtis. With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Sturridge, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost and Kenneth Branagh. (R) During the British invasion just about the only place the English could hear rock music on the radio was, ironically, on pirate stations that broadcast... By Ann Lewinson http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15453 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 9:52:00 AM CST http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15243 ** Amelia Directed by Mira Nair. Written by Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan. With Hilary Swank, Richard Gere and Ewan McGregor. (PG) In her quest for a third Oscar, Hilary Swank dons slacks again as Amelia Earhart, with the assistance of Gateway Computers co-founder Ted Waitt, who acquired the... By Ann Lewinson http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15243 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:11:41 AM CDT http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15157 **** A Serious Man Written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. With Michael Stuhlbarg, Aaron Wolff, Sari Lennick, Richard Kind and Fred Melamed. (R) Why do bad things happen to good people? Or to put it another way, what if Llewelyn Moss hadn't taken the satchel full of money at the beginning... By Ann Lewinson http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15157 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:11:41 AM CDT http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15158 For those who think that independent film was invented by Steven Soderbergh in 1989, or John Sayles in 1980, or John Cassavetes in 1959, Phil Hall's The History of Independent Cinema offers a welcome crash course in the filmmakers and entrepreneurs who made the movies what they are today. I spoke... By Ann Lewinson http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15158 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:11:40 AM CDT http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15145 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid A screening of the classic film starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Screenwriter William Goldman will be on hand afterward. Reception at 6 p.m. 7 p.m. Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, 53 Wall St., (203) 432-0670, yale.edu/whc . Free. The major... By Donald Brown http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15145 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 9:55:56 AM CDT http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15087 Precious 5 p.m., Oct. 15, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, 53 Wall St. 203-432-4131. Sold out. Milford native Lisa Cortes majored in American Studies at Yale. But it wasn't until she went to work as an organizer for London's Artists Against Apartheid that she realized how to... By Jonathan Kiefer http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15087 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 9:50:50 AM CDT http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=14872 *** Where the Wild Things Are Directed by Spike Jonze. Written by Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers, based on the book by Maurice Sendak. With Max Records, Catherine Keener and the voices of James Gandolfini, Lauren Ambrose and Catherine O’Hara. (PG) If one were to imagine a perfect... By Ann Lewinson http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=14872 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 9:43:51 AM CDT http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=14844 *** Zombieland Directed by Ruben Fleischer. Written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. With Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin. (R) There are, more or less, two distinct kinds of zombie movie: the siege picture, in which the interest is chiefly in seeing how... By Ann Lewinson http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=14844 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 1:53:43 PM CDT http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=14749 One would think that the man who made such films as On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, East of Eden and Gentleman’s Agreement has nothing to apologize for. Indeed, judged purely on his achievements, Elia Kazan is one of the icons of American stage and screen, undeniably an artistic... By Alan Bisbort http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=14749