Alison Eastwood | The New York Observer

Manhattan Weekend Box Office: Bella Does Beautifully; (Another) Eastwood Needs to Pull the Plug

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:58:55 -0400

Heartbleeders, both literally—ew!—and metaphorically—aw!—speaking, ruled over the weekend. Saw IV (No. 1) grossed over $32 million nationally and averaged over $53,000 at 8 theaters in the city, while Dan in the Real Life (No. 2) took in a respectable $12 million in national receipts, and did similarly respectable business in the city with an over $23,000 average on 8 screens.

Perhaps there is a little surprise that Steve Carell and...

Girl on Film: Saw, Again, Carell in Dan in Real Life, Clint Eastwood's Spawn, and Bacon—Mmmm, Bacon

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:04:35 -0400

This weekend we’ll be treated to a blessed break from the heavy-duty Oscar-hopeful onslaught of late. If, like us, you have barely been able to breathe under the weight of recent movies (see Reservation Road, Rendition, Things We Lost in the Fire—ouch! It hurts!), Halloween torture flicks might actually feel like relief. The folks at Lions Gate are hoping that Saw IV (we know, we know … do you need to go back and...

Bent : Movie of the year? ... Savannah's Dulled in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Sun, 30 Nov 1997 19:00:00 -0500

A Spirit Bent

Is Not Broken Get ready to be electrified! After almost 20 years, a harrowing, potent film has been made from the acclaimed, award-winning, groundbreaking 1979 play Bent , about Hitler's savage persecution of gays in Nazi Berlin. It is not for squeamish Pollyannas, but it will grab serious filmgoers by the heart. This stirring work by Martin Sherman, the marvelous writer whose new play A Madhouse in Goa is currently dazzling New York...

In the Movie Version, The South Has Lost Its Charm

Sun, 30 Nov 1997 19:00:00 -0500

Clint Eastwood's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil , from the screenplay by John Lee Hancock, based on the book by John Berendt, starts out as a screen version of a Town & Country story and ends up somewhere closer to an episode of Perry Mason . The book was an enormous best seller with that formula, but the movie is unlikely to be as popular. The big problem is Mr. Hancock's...