King of New York: Directed by Abel Ferrara. With Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne, Victor Argo. A drug kingpin is released from prison and seeks to take total control of the criminal underworld in order to give back to the community.
Abel Ferrara’s “King of New York,” a gritty action movie about a New York drug kingpin, was a surprise entry in this year’s Telluride Film Festival, where tastes are usually loftier. Maybe the selection was intended to honor Ferrara as a stylist whose movies may look commercial but fe...
including It Was Only a Cat. Two more thumbs down for Abel Ferrara'sKing of New York (1990): it has good performances, a nice visual style -- and a preposterous plot. Two thumbs up for the Coen brothers'Miller's Crossing (1990), although Siskel praises it more highly; Ebert felt the...
The Fisher King: Directed by Terry Gilliam. With Jeff Bridges, Adam Bryant, Paul Lombardi, David Hyde Pierce. A former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an u
This is not to say that his film, which arrived here unheralded a year after its New York premiere, is not a brave and interesting effort in its own right. Peter Brook is not constitutionally able to direct “screen versions” of someone else’s work. The vision must be his own, even...
Other less humanoid but still three-dimensional analogues to Tory’s letters appears in various sculptural bookworks byMarion Bataille,Helen Hiebert,Takenobu Igarashi,Ron King,Scott McCarney,Claire Van Vlietand the 25th anniversary compendium from theMovable Books Society. ...
Based in New York City, she's an established film critic and entertainment reporter, who has traveled the world on assignment, covered a variety of film festivals, co-hosted movie-focused podcasts, interviewed a wide array of performers and filmmakers, and had her work published on RogerEbert....
The film critic, Roger Ebert praised Brandauer’s decision not to turn Largo into a cliché. It is a compliment I largely agree with. Brandauer’s sense of subtle evil is far more menacing that Adolfo Celli’s Emilio Largo in Thunderball. After Largo, the film’s most interesting character...
The movie garnered a lot of critical praise during its year of release, even landing among Roger Ebert's best films of 2005 and landing among the top five-grossing movies worldwide that year.It was also named amongEmpire'stop 500 movies of all time in 2011. ...
I've had no peace of mind since we lost America. Forests, old as the world itself... meadows... plains... strange delicate flowers... immense solitudes... and all nature new to art... all ours... Mine. Gone. A paradise... lost. Connections Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the ...