Reeling – February 7, 2008
Hosted by Ben Flanagan
Guest: Corey Craft, Entertainment Editor of The Crimson White, Editor of The Scene
As you may have heard during the last broadcast, the show has a new format. Like the ESPN sports show Pardon the Interruption, our topics will be timed as long as five minutes. When the clock ticks to zero, we’ll hear a bell that means it’s time for us to shut up and move on.
Lots to talk about today, I’ve just come back from New York City where I’ve seen four new movies, There Will Be Blood is playing in Tuscaloosa, the Crimson White’s consensus no. 1 movie of 2007 is out on DVD, but first:
1. Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood to star in Woody Allen's next movie.
2. Back from New York City, where I saw four movies. While I wasn’t able to discuss it the last two weeks, I had finally seen Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, There Will Be Blood.
3. Corey and the rest of the critics at the Crimson White came to a consensus pick for best film of 2007 a couple of weeks ago in that issue of The Scene. On Tuesday, The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford was released on DVD.
4. To continue the New York discussion, I was lucky enough to see Woody Allen’s newest film, Cassandra’s Dream, at a theater on the Upper East Side, which is actually where I saw his last film, Scoop, for the first time. If you liked Match Point, you’ll like this one, as Allen is firing on all cylinders just as he did with that one back in 2005.
5. Another New York catch was Julian Schnabel’s beautiful examination of a stroke victim from the patient’s point-of-view in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
6. Finally, to build upon my recent and current Bob Dylan phase, I saw Todd Haynes’ experimental pseudo-biography on the musician, called I’m Not There, which played at the Film Forum in the city.
7. Heath Ledger’s death – the young, accomplished and ultimately promising actor reportedly accidentally overdosed on drugs.
8. Academy Awards President Sid Ganis is positive the 80th Annual Academy Awards will go ahead despite the threat from the current Hollywood writers strike.
DVD picks:
Lots of Woody – Sweet and Lowdown, Hollywood Ending, Match Point, Shadows and Fog
Apocalypto along with Mel Gibson’s commentary
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Corey's picks:
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Rocket Science
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford
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