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Review: AMERICAN GANGSTER

November 2, 2007 Rich Drees

For several years during the late 1960s and early `70s, Frank Lucas was one of Harlem’s most successful businessmen. He had the acumen to go directly to a supplier for his wares, cutting out the [click for more]

Review: GONE BABY GONE

October 20, 2007 Rich Drees

When a little girl disappears from her mother’s house in a neighborhood in a low income section of Boston, local private investigator Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck) is hired by the girl’s aunt (Amy Madigan) to [click for more]

NYFF Review: RUNNIN’ DOWN A DREAM: TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS

October 13, 2007 Rich Drees

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have been an undeniable force in American rock music for the past three decades. As a rock band, they kept true to their three chord inspirations when other bands were [click for more]

NYFF Review: Mr. WARMTH: THE DON RICKLES PROJECT

October 12, 2007 Rich Drees

When we first see legendary entertainer Don Rickles he is sitting backstage in his dressing room at the Stardust Hotel, waiting to hit the boards. Looking a bit frail, his hand shakes ever so slightly [click for more]

NYFF Review: BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD

October 11, 2007 Rich Drees

It seemed like a simple plan at the beginning. Two brothers, both in various states of financial distress, plan to rob a small mom and pop jewelry store in West Chester, New York. Their plan [click for more]

NYFF Review: REDACTED

October 9, 2007 Rich Drees

Brian De Palma’s new film Redacted is many things. Raw. Courageous. Disturbing. Brutal. Inflamatory. Bold. Uncompromising. Important. A plea for the soul of our country. Quite possibly the best film of De Palma’s career. Redacted [click for more]

NYFF Review: PARANOID PARK

October 7, 2007 Rich Drees

In many ways, Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park is a continuation of the themes and issues he has previously examined in 2003’s Elephant. Again we have teen characters with divorced or separated parents. Again we [click for more]

NYFF Review: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

October 5, 2007 Rich Drees

The writing and directing team of Joel and Ethan Coen are at their best when dealing with the subject of crime. From their early films like the caper comedy Raising Arizona to the Prohibition gangland [click for more]

NYFF Review: I’M NOT THERE

October 3, 2007 Rich Drees

Singer Bob Dylan once famously asked in song, “How many roads must a man walk down, before you can call him a man?” Writer/director Todd Haynes attempts to answer that question by showing us six [click for more]

NYFF Review: SECRET SUNSHINE

September 30, 2007 Rich Drees

Secret Sunshine is an emotional tour de force, taking its audience to the heart of a mother’s worst fear and then following her ensuing descent into a vortex of depression, denial and ultimately, madness. Recently [click for more]