Christianne Hedtke / Top Ten Lists
Tags: Arthur Russell, comedy, David Gordon Greene, documentary, Evan Goldberg, Filth and Wisdom, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Good Dick, Hamlet 2, horror, In Bruges, independent film, James Franco, Jason Segel, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Jonah Hill, Judd Apatow, Let the Right One In, Madonna, Matt Wolf, Medicine for Melancholy, Mila Kunis, Mitchell Lichtenstein, movie, music, Nicholas Stoller, Phillip Glass, Pineapple Express, Revolutionary Road, Seth Rogen, Son of Rambow, Sundance, Sundance 2007, Sundance 2008, Sundance Film Festival, Tell No One, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Wrestler, Tomas Alfredson, Tribeca Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival 2008, Trouble the Water, W., Wild Combination
February 10, 2009
Why stop at 10 when there are so many excellent movies out there and the internet has infinite space? To settle any arguments that may spring up, some of these movies were released as early as 2007 and exhibited in theaters as late as 2009, but they are all uniquely connected with 2008 either [...]
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Simultaneously serene and action-packed, this movie has everything: nascent adolescent love, redemption, revenge, bloody murder, and vampires! Set in the bleakest reaches of Sweden, the movie depicts the blossoming relationship between oft-bullied Oscar and possible vampire, Eli, during the dark days of Nordic winter. But even though the movie is about [...]
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Christianne Hedtke / Man on Wire
Tags: 2001, documentary, guerilla art, independent film, James Marsh, Phillipe Petit, September 11, September 11th, Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, World Trade Center
February 5, 2009
This documentary chronicles Philippe Petit, the tight-rope walker who illegally strung a rope between the peaks of the Twin Towers in 1974 and traipsed across it for the better part of 45 minutes before the cops finally got him down in the event that has been heralded as “the artistic crime of the [...]
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