New York Times: Movies http://www.nytimes.com/pages/movies/index.html Headlines, abstracts and links for the latest New York Times articles, for Radio UserLand. en-us Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company Sun, 27 Jun 2004 02:01:10 GMT rssUpdates http://backend.userland.com/rss UserLand Frontier v9.0 webmaster@userland.com Loser Nerds vs. Pumped-Up Jocks (Revenge Again?) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/18/movies/18DODG.html?ex=1403496000&en=42782461c02b3120&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND Ben Stiller plays a pumped-up fitness guru in a consistently funny sports spoof that unapologetically roots for the über-nerds. Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:57 GMT Stephen Holden http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/18/movies/18DODG.html In Noir London, Not Even Revenge Is All That Sweet http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/18/movies/18SLEE.html?ex=1403496000&en=67d316bc117a409a&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND Revenge is a dish served again and again in the movies, and connoisseurs will note the special British flavor that Mike Hodges brings to the table. Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:57 GMT A. O. Scott http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/18/movies/18SLEE.html An Émigré's Paradise Lost and Found http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/18/movies/18TERM.html?ex=1403496000&en=5fdd7ddacd2ccfd6&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND Steven Spielberg's film about a traveler (Tom Hanks) stranded for a year at Kennedy Airport turns what sounds like a nightmare into a soothing comic dream. Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:57 GMT A. O. Scott http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/18/movies/18TERM.html The Disaster on the Doorstep http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/20/movies/20CAMH.html?ex=1403668800&en=8a81d09f570b7897&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND Michael Haneke's "Time of the Wolf" (opening in New York on June 25) is a disaster film without spectacular special effects. Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:57 GMT Leslie Camhi http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/20/movies/20CAMH.html Band on the Couch http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/20/magazine/20METALLICA.html?ex=1403064000&en=bc0fcf6803f0c2c4&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND Metallica was about to implode. So it brought in a $40,000-a-month therapist. And then it let cameras into its sessions. That's when things got interesting. Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:57 GMT Chuck Klosterman http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/20/magazine/20METALLICA.html America's Favorite Seething Man-Child http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/20/movies/20EDEL.html?ex=1403668800&en=e9631be3f7891fe2&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND Ben Stiller, perpetually shifty and uptight, has turned his pathologies into a commodity. Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:57 GMT David Edelstein http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/20/movies/20EDEL.html Cole Porter's Two Biopics? They're Night and Day http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/20/movies/20PURD.html?ex=1403668800&en=658ffbdaf380d7db&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND Unlike "Night and Day," the 1946 film starring Cary Grant, the new MGM biopic "De-Lovely" celebrates Cole Porter in all his complexities. Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:57 GMT Todd S. Purdum http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/20/movies/20PURD.html Michael Moore Is Ready for His Close-Up http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/20/movies/20SHEN.html?ex=1403668800&en=b02a13f595e24a5d&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore's blistering documentary attack on President Bush and the war in Iraq, invites scrutiny. Will the facts check out? Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:56 GMT Philip Shenon http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/20/movies/20SHEN.html Where to Film 30's L.A.? Cape Town, of Course http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/22/movies/22CAPE.html?ex=1403236800&en=703736c408883c92&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND Long a favorite location for fashion shoots and advertising stills, Cape Town, South Africa, is also catching on with major film producers. Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:56 GMT Sharon Lafraniere http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/22/movies/22CAPE.html 2 Films of a Gorky Play Make an International Set http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/22/movies/22DVD.html?ex=1403236800&en=15ce01b8eaf91040&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND The Criterion Collection has produced a crash course in comparative international filmmaking by packaging two versions of "The Lower Depths" in one two-disc set. Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:56 GMT Dave Kehr http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/22/movies/22DVD.html 'Fahrenheit' Ads Use the Fuss the Film Is Causing http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/23/movies/23MARK.html?ex=1403323200&en=e48cfced7cd1d60d&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND Michael Moore's documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" is being marketed as the summer's must-see cinematic controversy, both entertaining and contentious. Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:56 GMT Felicia R. Lee http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/23/movies/23MARK.html The Like-Minded Line Up for a 9/11 Film http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/24/movies/24film.html?ex=1403496000&en=4aeda490f30a2e44&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND Nearly 800 members of the capital's Democratic leadership turned out for the official premiere of Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11." Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:56 GMT John Files http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/24/movies/24film.html For Mel Gibson, 'The Passion' Seems Mostly a Blessing http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/24/movies/24GIBS.html?ex=1403409600&en=4689860990623407&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND The director and movie star Mel Gibson is well positioned in Hollywood to make career choices after the success of "The Passion of the Christ." Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:56 GMT Sharon Waxman http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/24/movies/24GIBS.html An Estrangement Crosses Generations, Shadowed by Race http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/23/movies/23WIND.html?ex=1403323200&en=4f400031949f4ea7&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND Race is the central theme in this sexy, sometimes ungainly soap opera by the Brazilian documentary maker Joel Zito Araújo. Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:56 GMT A. O. Scott http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/23/movies/23WIND.html A Miracle That Transforms Three Blind Lives http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/23/movies/23BLIN.html?ex=1403323200&en=0c4559d48929d6af&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND This strong but muddled documentary is a portrait of three sisters, blind from birth, who sing and play the ganza on the streets of Campina Grande, Brazil. Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:56 GMT Stephen Holden http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/23/movies/23BLIN.html Large Male Feet in the Footsteps of Graham http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/24/movies/24GHOS.html?ex=1403409600&en=536135fd6472c4d8&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND Christopher Herrmann's independent feature is at once a heartfelt tribute to the legendary dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, and also a campy send-up of her myth. Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:56 GMT Dave Kehr http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/24/movies/24GHOS.html A Teenage Heroine on a Planet in Peril http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/movies/25KAEN.html?ex=1403496000&en=4f6ca5c4a456c23b&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND The first 3-D animated film from France, this outer-space fantasy, about a plucky teenage girl struggling to save her planet from destruction, is thick with distracting visual detail. Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:56 GMT Dave Kehr http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/movies/25KAEN.html F.B.I. Agents in Drag Enjoy Wild Hamptons Weekend http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/23/movies/23CHIC.html?ex=1403323200&en=4fe79c38bc5725de&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND Most movies require some suspension of disbelief. But "White Chicks" requires something more radical than that. A full frontal lobotomy might be a good place to start. Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:56 GMT Dave Kehr http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/23/movies/23CHIC.html A Community Unravels in the Heart of Darkness http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/movies/25INTE.html?ex=1403496000&en=904b7e4379a543e4&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND Not even Janet McTeer, one of the world's most resourceful actresses, can rescue this movie from deteriorating into a clanking melodrama. Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:56 GMT Stephen Holden http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/movies/25INTE.html If Only Humans Behaved as Well as Tigers http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/movies/25BROT.html?ex=1403496000&en=a96f1aec7475c6d8&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND This family-friendly movie about two tiger cubs growing up in French Indochina in the 1920's is for the same audience that likes to imagine talking animals. Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:56 GMT Stephen Holden http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/movies/25BROT.html In Search of Food, Water and Human Kindness After an Ecological Catastrophe http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/movies/25WOLF.html?ex=1403496000&en=d1360275a8e0a115&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND Survivors struggle to hold on to the trappings of civilization after an unspecified ecological catastrophe in Michael Haneke's minimalist disaster movie. Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:56 GMT A. O. Scott http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/movies/25WOLF.html When Love Is Madness and Life a Straitjacket http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/movies/25NOTE.html?ex=1403496000&en=3b41e3adcb0d77c6&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND The screen adaptation of Nicholas Sparks's treacly best seller insists on true, mystical, eternal love, till death do us part, and won't have it any other way. Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:56 GMT Stephen Holden http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/movies/25NOTE.html Unruly Scorn Leaves Room for Restraint, but Not a Lot http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/23/movies/23FAHR.html?ex=1403323200&en=305614ef09cd531a&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND While Michael Moore's documentary about the Bush administration has been likened to an op-ed column, it might more accurately be said to resemble an editorial cartoon. Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:55 GMT A. O. Scott http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/23/movies/23FAHR.html Youth Who Like Films Rated R, but Not Chaperones, Get a Card http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/26/movies/MoviesFeatures/26RATI.html?ex=1403582400&en=b04841a816f6e9e2&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND A movie theater chain in five Midwestern states that sells "R-cards," which allow young people to attend R-rated movies unaccompanied by a parent or guardian, has touched off a debate. Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:55 GMT Micheline Maynard http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/26/movies/MoviesFeatures/26RATI.html The Best Goebbels of All? http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/arts/27RICH.html?ex=1403668800&en=36827708bdc8d2fc&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND Whatever Michael Moore can do in "Fahrenheit 9/11," John Ashcroft can do more often with his apocalyptic press conferences. Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:55 GMT Frank Rich http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/arts/27RICH.html Tarzan and Jane on the Trail to the Suburbs http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/movies/27KEHR.html?ex=1403668800&en=b32890f5ed8980ce&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND Six Tarzan films starring one of Hollywood's most memorable screen couples, Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan, are now available in a handsome DVD boxed set. Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:55 GMT Dave Kehr http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/movies/27KEHR.html The Wayans Brothers Become the Wayans Sisters http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/movies/27SANN.html?ex=1403668800&en=e6ce57c7cb1ce3fc&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND Like just about everything the Wayanses do, "White Chicks" is both a cheerful satire of obvious targets and a sly commentary on black Hollywood. Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:55 GMT Kelefa Sanneh http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/movies/27SANN.html A Different Mexican Revolution http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/movies/27SCOT.html?ex=1403668800&en=5cafc0599239792e&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND During the first three weeks of July, Film Forum in Manhattan will present a 26-film retrospective of Mexican movies, from the silent era to the early 90's. Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:55 GMT A. O. Scott http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/movies/27SCOT.html Does Whatever a Spider (and a C.E.O.) Can http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/movies/27LEVI.html?ex=1403668800&en=1bc2716d07bee120&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND Avi Arad, the chairman and chief executive of Marvel Studios, is the king of the summer comic book movie. Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:55 GMT Robert Levine http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/movies/27LEVI.html John Kerry's Big Screen Test http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/movies/27WILG.html?ex=1403668800&en=df99b71f025bd015&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND In the newly crowded nexus of film and politics, instead of trying to compete with summer movies, politicians seem to be starring in them. Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:37:55 GMT Jodi Wilgoren http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/movies/27WILG.html