http://www.nowrench.com/crimson Life Uncalibrated Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:44:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Had to rush for this movie, since it had sold out long before I got tickets (and I got tickets on the first day general admission tickets went on sale to Amex card holders). The rush situation was a travesty. The volunteers managed to establish three different rush ... http://www.nowrench.com/crimson/2009/05/02/tribeca-easy-virtue/ Somewhere inside this boring film is an interesting idea struggling to get out. Our two main characters are ex's and the guy owes the girl $3500 from a loan she made him a year ago. As the film opens, she shows up and demands that he repay her, ... http://www.nowrench.com/crimson/2009/05/02/tribeca-my-dear-enemy/ British film chronicling the events in the American and British government ministries during the lead up to an unspecified war (read Iraq). As a narrative film there isn't much of a plot and no character development, this is more a visualization of the backstabbing, political maneuvering, and outright lying ... http://www.nowrench.com/crimson/2009/05/02/tribeca-in-the-loop/ Robert is a 52-year-old unemployed musician kicking around New York with no purpose in life. When he is evicted from his apartment, he hires a cheap Serbian moving company to get his stuff to an ex-girlfriend's apartment. The Serbian mover offers him a deal. For six thousand ... http://www.nowrench.com/crimson/2009/05/02/tribeca-here-and-there/ A parody/homage to the Blaxplotation films of the 1970's, Black Dynamite brings the funk, the soul, and the funny. The genesis of this film (as explained by the director) was rather amusing. Apparently, Michael Jai White (who stars as Black Dynamite) decided that he'd make a great Blaxplotation ... http://www.nowrench.com/crimson/2009/05/02/tribeca-black-dynamite/ Fantastic science fiction from director Duncan Jones. This is a science fiction movie that shares much more with the literary side of the genre than with the traditional sf movie fair. Reminiscent of Asimov or Heinlein, Moon uses its futuristic setting as a lens to explore the human ... http://www.nowrench.com/crimson/2009/05/01/tribeca-moon/ So I had absolutely no recollection of what this film was about when I walked in. That's actually not that uncommon for me towards the end of the festival. Between seeing movies, running over Manhattan, and doing code development in my spare time my brain is pretty ... http://www.nowrench.com/crimson/2009/05/01/tribeca-yodok-stories/ My first midnight movie of this year's festival and it almost worked out. The film feels like a fairly cheap ripoff of Rosemary's Baby, except it isn't a cinematic masterpiece and it completely goofs the ending. The first two-thirds of the movie are actually a pretty decent, albeit ... http://www.nowrench.com/crimson/2009/04/30/tribeca-house-of-the-devil/ French slice of life film, floating somewhere in the nebulous space between comedy and drama. Thankfully, unlike a lot of other French films in this genre, it is not mind-numbingly boring. But it isn't particularly interesting. A middle-aged woman who works as a cleaning lady decides she ... http://www.nowrench.com/crimson/2009/04/30/tribeca-queen-to-play/ Documentary about child hip-hop phenom Priscilla Star and her father's attempts to turn her into a star. It is a good documentary. The director got incredible access, spending over four years following the family and filming them in pretty much every situation, the good and the bad. ... http://www.nowrench.com/crimson/2009/04/30/tribeca-p-star-rising/