The current cinema

8 Comments

• David Ehrenstein says:

  October 6, 2011 at 9:11 am

  Caught the all-media last night. If this is “old school” then I’m play­ing hookey.
  Exceptionally dis­ap­point­ing. For all his obvi­ous smarts and pro­fes­sion­al skill (top-notch act­ing, All Tech Credits Pro) at the end of the day it’s a flip cyn­ic­al “inside” (but not all that “inside”)story about a lying Democrat who fucks the wrong intern. George may think he’s Francesco Rosi but at heart he’s Delbert Mann.
  Evan Rachel Wood as the intern in ques­tion is fine as always. George is George as always. Ryan Gosling had bet­ter find a secodn facial expres­sion, fast.
  Stolen by Marisa Tomei as Judy Miller.

• robhumanick says:

  October 6, 2011 at 10:55 am

  I is excited. Sentences?

• Michael Adams says:

  October 6, 2011 at 12:15 pm

  “George may think he’s Francesco Rosi but at heart he’s Delbert Mann.” The most damning remark ever uttered in these pages. I sus­pect it’s true.

• lipranzer says:

  October 6, 2011 at 2:23 pm

  I haven’t seen the film yet, but I think Clooney (whom I like as a dir­ect­or as well as act­or; I even like his much-maligned LEATHERHEADS) thinks he’s Alan J. Pakula, not Rosi.

• Stephen Bowie says:

  October 7, 2011 at 6:06 am

  Delbert Mann is a very under­rated director.

• Dennis J. O'Connor says:

  October 7, 2011 at 8:37 am

  Having not seen the film (and I will, as a polit­ic­al junkie)I only wish to com­ment on the MSN review. It was cleanly writ­ten without any of the pre­ten­tious lit­er­ary devices usu­ally reserved for wine tast­ing and art cri­ti­cism. George Orwell would have been proud to pro­duce such a work. A rare, read­able piece. Thank you.

• lipranzer says:

  October 7, 2011 at 7:03 pm

  Having seen the movie, like David, I was a little dis­ap­poin­ted. I don’t think it’s a “flip” movie, but I do think it was cap­able of, and should have gone, much deep­er. I also find it hard to believe a sup­posedly savvy cam­paign work­er like Gosling’s char­ac­ter is sup­posed to be is so cred­u­lous about what Giamatti’s char­ac­ter does (Giamatti, Hoffman and Tomei I thought were the best parts of the movie).

• Asher says:

  October 10, 2011 at 12:38 am

  Ehrenstein’s right. This was an excep­tion­ally dim movie, marred by a one-note (okay, three notes, but two of them are out of his range) per­form­ance from Gosling.