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Comment on Playing Footsie: Another remake stumbles by HarlemLT

HarlemLT — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 04:39:00 +0000

First Off… RIP Heavy D…You Music Lives Forever…

Thank You For This Review…My Favorite Line is The Whole Last Paragraph…It’s A Shame That I Can Only Find Great Writing Like This From Mr. White And The “Money Team” lol

Comment on NOW PLAYING: Film capsules by Armond White by mark osborn

mark osborn — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:48:00 +0000

Armond-

I really wish you wrote longer form essays on some the above films. I like what you’ve done hear at City Arts, but, I can’t lie, I miss the higher volume of output you had at NY Press. Will you still be contributing reviews to their online edition?

Comment on Pauline Kael, Criticism’s Last Icon by Jharkey7

Jharkey7 — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 07:33:00 +0000

She was a bitter misanthrope who had an ego the size of Jupiter. Of course, it is easy to attack her for her angry and over the top negative reviews (it was obvious that she grew to revile Kubrick’s work only because she was a pathological contrarian), but it was the absurdly overblown appraisal she gave to films such as Last Tango and Bonnie and Clyde and most of the crap De Palma churned out that made her but a joke to anybody worth taking seriously. Of course, it must also be said that she was highly fraudulent and really seems to have avoided what should have been damning scandal in terms of favoritism and outright plagiarism (apparently most of her citizen kane essay was stolen).

Comment on Petty Larceny: Tower Heist’s low-down concept by anon

anon — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 02:32:00 +0000

“Murphy is the original high concept star whose chameleon comic gifts were launched in slick empty ’80s vehicles, but none as shallow as this.” Really? Even Best Defense?

Comment on NOW PLAYING: Film Capsule Reviews by Armond White by Guest

Guest — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:11:00 +0000

I too would love to see a longer take on Take Shelter, which I seem to read differently from every review I’ve read so far. I think — and I’m trying not to spoil things for those who haven’t seen it yet — that if you view the whole film as a metaphor for marriage and family and standing by one another in the face of an unavoidable crisis, then the end seems less absurd. In short: the end scene is the same as the opening scene, only not alone.

Comment on Old New Wave: ‘Le Havre,’ a P.C. Fairytale by Phil

Phil — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 05:01:00 +0000

jefferey is very dense and misreads much.

Comment on Old New Wave: ‘Le Havre,’ a P.C. Fairytale by Jeffrey Zanker

Jeffrey Zanker — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:17:00 +0000

Can’t wait to this see! Thanks for the first positive film review of the new City Arts.

Comment on NOW PLAYING: Film capsules by Armond White by Jeffrey Zanker

Jeffrey Zanker — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:55:00 +0000

Disappointed that “Take Shelter” sounds “overwrought”, but I’m interested in seeing Five Star Day, which sounds like my kind of movie: Spirituality and Humanism. Thank you

Comment on Nerds Strike Out by I AM MYSTERION

I AM MYSTERION — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:27:00 +0000

Armond is a troll!

Comment on Virtual Deity by Bmanderson2

Bmanderson2 — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:21:00 +0000

I saw a one man show called “Room 306″ @ the 59 E59th Street Theater. It depicts the night before his assassination as does the mountaintop. It was powerful. I do not plan to see this version for 2 reasons. 1st I cannot for the life of me see Samuel Jackson play Martin Luther King; I have a sense that having a woman involved trivializes the man and the message. I saw Paul Winfield play him in a movie. He was fabulous.