http://www.thedailypage.com/movies Movie content from ISTHMUS | The Daily Page webmaster@isthmus.com (Webmaster) Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:56:20 CDT Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28447 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28447 We have a new Frederick Wiseman film in <i>La Danse</i>, which documents the work of the Ballet de l'Opera de Paris, the dance company whose history goes back to the 17th century. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28448 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28448 <i>She's Out of My League</i> is a middling raunchy comedy, but it has a few things to recommend it. One is that it is fairly artful with its raunch, which is to say that even the smuttiest parts, including a prolonged sequence about premature ejaculation, are generally in the service of character and story. Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28312 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28312 When I saw the trailer for the Leo Tolstoy picture <i>The Last Station</i>, I felt a pang of sadness for Christopher Plummer, still trying to get out from under <i>The Sound of Music</i> after all these years. The new film stars, we're told in great big letters, Academy Award® winner Helen Mirren, Academy Award® nominee Paul Giamatti and... Christopher Plummer. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28252 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28252 <i>Shutter Island</i> is a good genre horror movie and a terrific Scorsese picture as well: a beautifully crafted film with a brilliant cast and production values that, while not skimping on blood and guts, don't try to shock you with gore so much as play with your head, upset your conception of reality. Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=27814 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=27814 When Edgar Allan Poe invented the literary detective genre in 1841, little did he know that C. Auguste Dupin, his clever little Parisian "ratiocinator," would lead directly to the creation of Arthur Conan Doyle's "consulting detective" Sherlock Holmes some 46 years later. Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=27771 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=27771 As awards season kicks into high gear, commentators of all stripes are going to talk about <i>Up in the Air</i> in terms of its zeitgeist relevance, its timely attention to economic instability and the corporations that feast on the carrion of the downsized and dispossessed. And in so doing, they will overlook how simply satisfying it is as a piece of filmmaking. Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28082 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28082 <i>Amelia</i> is an old-fashioned, overly romantic movie, but likably so. It's true that director Mira Nair and writers Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan don't spring many surprises while telling us the story of the famed trailblazing aviatrix Amelia Earhart -- an iconic American figure of the '20s and '30s who vanished over the Pacific while on a record-breaking, gender-smashing, 'round-the-world flight. But I'm not sure I wanted them too. Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:17:23 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28028 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28028 Michael Jackson -- looking like a will-o'-the-wisp in military/gangster drag, singing like honey poured through quicksilver, and dancing like a jitterbug angel whirling on the head of a pin -- gets an extraordinary posthumous sendoff in <i>Michael Jackson's This Is It.</i> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28420 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28420 In Jason Reitman's <i>Up in the Air</i>, George Clooney plays a prime/perfecto Clooney role: Ryan Bingham, a nice-seeming, glamorous-looking guy with a highly paid, very nasty job. Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28386 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28386 When you settle in to watch the Academy Awards Sunday night, don't forget your laptop. Kenneth will be blogging along, live, and you're encouraged to log in and share your thoughts and questions here. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28342 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28342 Some children's stories work primarily for...children. Some please both children and adults. But some are mostly for adults -- and that may be the case with Spike Jonze's new movie from Maurice Sendak's famous 1963 picture book <i>Where the Wild Things Are</i>. Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28298 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28298 In 1937, director Leo McCarey, who had spent almost all of his career as an expert maker of comedy movies, decided to direct something entirely different. He wanted to make a classic movie tear-jerker, based on <i>The Years Are So Long</i>, Josephine Lawrence's novel about elderly parents and their neglectful children. The result was <i>Make Way for Tomorrow</i>. Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:03:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28068 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28068 Cherie Currie is a native of California's San Fernando Valley, where the weather is pleasant all year. For the former lead singer of the 1970s all-girl rock band The Runaways, Wisconsin in January is an adjustment. "How you guys brave the weather, I don't know," a grinning Currie told an audience Thursday night at Sundance Cinemas Madison. Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27957 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=27957 "We all lose our charms in the end," Marilyn Monroe sings in <i>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</i>, referring to the relentless aging process. Technically speaking, the 1953 movie itself had lost some of its charms, including its brilliant color. But it's been restored, and now Madison audiences can see Monroe's eye-popping gowns the way they originally appeared on the big screen.