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Pearl Harbor

By Ted Gushue 1/22 2:54pm

Sundance Film Festival

Bing Presents Comedy With Aziz Ansari And A Drake Performance At The Bing Bar - 2012 Park City

Turf Wars, Lil Jon And The Josh Hartnett Sundance Stink Eye

Day 2 of the Sundance Film Festival found The Observer snowbound in the extreme. We're talking enough snow to give Mayor Bloomberg and the New York City transit system nightmares. Astronomic surcharges became the norm as Park City's anemic livery force struggled to even make the most ludicrous time frames: "Yeah I can have a guy up there in like 3 and a half hours?" deadpanned one audacious taxi dispatcher, who seemed to take pleasure in seeing so many city slickers squeal. Read More

By Ron Rosenbaum 8/30/04 12:00am

Age of Damaged Info Provides Bush-Hating Complicity Theory

1) The Post-Millennial Grassy Knoll

The four things that have made me laugh the most this summer were parodies of conspiracy theories and conspiracy theorists. Just a coincidence? I don't think so. I think it indicates two things. First, conspiracy theory-apparently embedded in the collective unconscious of the culture like a smoldering information virus-has flared up Read More
By Nicholas von Hoffman 7/12/04 12:00am

It’s a Dog’s Life For America’s Foes

The political psychotics were infused with new energy from the sparks given off at the 9/11 commission hearings. The stories about how George W. Bush was behind the destruction of the World Trade Center were themselves recirculated by the ardent nut cases who take nothing at face value. But then, these days you can mouth Read More

By Richard Brookhiser 7/01/02 12:00am

As Face of War Changes, Our Tactics Change, Too

What a difference a war makes. My only dealings with the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa. (the Army's equivalent of a postgraduate institution), occurred three years ago, when I sat in on the taping of a seminar there, for a documentary that is finally being aired July 4. The colonels and lieutenant-colonels were discussing Read More

By Andrew Sarris 1/07/02 12:00am

Where Does Hollywood Go From Here?

I have been contributing in print to a yearly film canon since 1958, and my research extends back to 1915, leading me to the conclusion that bad movies outnumber good movies by a ridiculously wide and constant margin, which is the way of all the arts.

Fortunately, we tend to forget all the bad movies of Read More
By Bruce Feirstein 12/10/01 12:00am

Diary of A Post-9/11 Script Doctor

I am writing this diary at 2:30 in the morning, on a film set somewhere north of Jacksonville, Fla. It's a calm, clear, beautiful December night. And I'm standing with 200 members of the cast and crew, in the darkest corner of an abandoned U.S. military training camp that has been magically transformed into a Read More

By Richard Brookhiser 10/01/01 12:00am

A Deadly Struggle Whose Outcome Is Certain

As the flatbeds carry the wreckage up the West Side Highway, away to disposal, so a few already-wrecked ideas of the last two weeks require attention.

The pacifists are a beleaguered minority now, and rightly so. But their case has a history and a certain consistency, and when the next bloodlettings occur they may rise again, Read More
By Terry Golway 6/11/01 12:00am

A Lost Victory in the Pacific

This newspaper appears on newsstands on June 6; like Dec. 7,

it is a date that some of us assume every fresh-faced school child associates with the war from which there is no escape. Even if the schools believe that this kind of knowledge is not helpful in the self-esteem-building process, the kids could hardly not Read More
By Andrew Sarris 6/11/01 12:00am

Shrek and Dreck? Well, Not Quite

I spent Memorial Day weekend catching up on Shrek (directed by Andrew Adamson and

Vicky Jenson, from a screenplay by Ted Elliott, Terry Russio, Joe Stillman and Roger S. H. Schulman, based on the book by William Steig), and Pearl Harbor (directed by Michael Bay, from a screenplay by Randall Wallace). Shrek has had nothing but Read More
By Rex Reed 6/04/01 12:00am

They Dropped A Bomb, All Right!

Brawny but brainless, Pearl Harbor is another bloated, irresponsible example of history according to Disney-a lame juggernaut that falsifies the facts, assaults the senses and leaves you blind, deaf and soulless. It's a blisteringly expensive, $140 million, three-hour tapestry of flag-waving, patriotic martyrdom that steals shamelessly from every war movie ever made about that fateful Read More

By James Verini 6/04/01 12:00am

UBS Warburg Analyst Makes Blockbuster Calls: Buy Fox, Hold Disney

Two days before what threatened to be the biggest Memorial Day box-office weekend ever-bigger than the same four days in 1997 that included the $90 million opener for The Lost World: Jurassic Park-Christopher Dixon was sussing out the film studios' offerings.

There was Pearl Harbor: too violent, maybe, for the repeat viewings of that crucial audience, Read More
By NYO Staff 5/28/01 12:00am

Pearl Wisdom … Cape Fear

Pearl Wisdom

Sometimes a great motion picture arrives and, for whatever reason, the public doesn't take notice. Such a motion picture may be Pearl Harbor . Filmed for a modest $140 million, Pearl Harbor is a spare, unflinchingly honest account of the Japanese attack on U.S. forces in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941. It was Read More
1 By Alexandra Jacobs 5/28/01 12:00am

Eight Day Week

Wednesday 23rd

We'll always have Paris! In fact, in New York, we've got three of em! 1) That city in France to which your mysterious co-workers jet off and return with tales of the frisky little Beaujolais they discovered in the 19th arrondissement; 2) the boozy Paris Review soirées hosted by dapper George Plimpton and attended Read More