The People's House
Gracie Mansion has seen its share of ups and downs. The site of the mayor's official residence has been bombed, foreclosed on, and used as an ice cream parlor. Mayor Bloomberg has never lived in the...
View ArticleAn Unspeakable Act: 'Hounddog'
Known colloquially as "The Dakota Fanning Rape Movie" since its premiere at last year's Sundance Film Festival, Deborah Kampmeier's "Hounddog" arrives in theaters Friday after a long distribution...
View Article'Save Me': Nothing a Little Praying Can't Fix
When a film about an ex-gay Christian ministry begins with drug-addled homosexual sex, it's pretty clear where it's going to end up. Robert Cary's redemption tale "Save Me," which opens in the city on...
View ArticlePortraits on the Walls of City Hall
The foreign dignitaries who are convening at the United Nations this week will certainly be the subjects of many photographs, but in the 19th century, honored guests were entered into New York City...
View ArticleMovies in Brief: 'A Thousand Years of Good Prayers'
Mr. Shi (Henry O), the lead character in Wayne Wang's new film, "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers," suffers from the occasional translation problem. Visiting America from China, he interacts with...
View ArticleMovies in Brief: 'The Little Red Truck'
The new documentary "The Little Red Truck" does not lack in enthusiasm, heart, or compassion. But Rob Whitehair's film, essentially a 102-minute endorsement of community theater, has a problem with...
View Article'Elegy': Lust, Love, and Everything in Between
Isabel Coixet's "Elegy" posits what happens when a proud and self-defined womanizer finds himself falling in love for the first time. Nicholas Meyer's adaptation of Philip Roth's novel "The Dying...
View Article'The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2': Growing Up and Out of Those Jeans
Surrounded as it is by teenage entertainments caught up in increasingly mature pursuits, the "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" franchise, with its more mature, self-affirming focus, has a...
View Article'Frozen River': Living Life on Thin Ice
Melissa Leo owns "Frozen River." The film dwells in that uncomfortable place where long bets are about to go bad, and Ms. Leo's unrelenting focus carries the viewer through it all, her determination...
View Article'August': The Boys of Summer Take a Chilly Fall
There is something extremely maladroit about films set in Manhattan that center on really sweet automobiles. The majority of New Yorkers view the irrelevance of cars in their city as a bonus rather...
View Article'Very Young Girls': New York's Children Left Behind
It's difficult to fathom that a sex act between an adolescent girl and a grown man would land the child in jail, but it happens every day on the streets of New York. Much time and effort is spent...
View ArticlePleasing the Court in 'Gunnin' for That #1 Spot'
Outsize talent in basketball can get a high school senior many things piles of free sneakers, college scholarships, and now, a Beastie Boys movie. Adam Yauch, aka MCA, took a year off from recording...
View ArticleMovies in Brief: Expired
If anyone can earn sympathy for the plight of the meter maid, it's Samantha Morton. In "Expired," which opens Friday at the Angelika Film Center, Ms. Morton stars as Claire, an introverted but sweet...
View ArticlePutting a Face on the Franchise
Teaching little girls about the Great Depression as a means of selling them stuff seems an odd approach to storytelling, but that is the premise of the new film "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl," which...
View ArticleWhat Just Happened?
If the road to movie hell is paved with good intentions, M. Night Shyamalan is getting pretty close to his destination. The well-compensated writer-director's new eco-thriller, "The Happening," takes...
View ArticleMovies in Brief: 'Take Out'
Following in the footsteps of Lars von Trier and the Dogme 95 tradition of austerity, "Take Out" is a bare-bones account of a day in the life of an illegal Chinese immigrant. And though Sean Baker's...
View Article'Savage Grace,' Cultivating the Root of All Evil
Despite its admiration of all the things that money can buy, Tom Kalin's new film "Savage Grace" is especially preoccupied with the things it cannot. Based on the true story of one of the most...
View ArticleSex on TV Isn't What It Used To Be
As the continued presence of tour buses parked throughout the West Village and lines outside Magnolia Bakery prove, it's hard to ignore the effects of HBO's "Sex and the City" on Manhattan, even four...
View ArticleComing To America To Stay
"Sangre de Mi Sangre" is a film bent on desperation. As it follows the parallel journeys of two Mexican teenagers who smuggle themselves to New York, the film's relentless focus on the adversities...
View ArticleMovie Brief: 'Viva'
For those who were hoping that the more embarrassing elements of the sexual revolution were slowly fading into oblivion, Anna Biller is here to make sure that doesn't happen. The director and star of...
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