Coming this December, a buff Robert Downey Jr. stars in the title role of Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes” with Jude Law tagging along as his long-suffering Watson.
In the current issue of Bright Lights Film Journal, Matthew Kennedy reviews Frankly, My Dear: “Gone with the Wind” Revisited by Molly Haskell while during this 70th anniversary year of the classic film David Denby evaluates the career of director Victor Fleming, The Real Rhett Butler.
Later this summer, Charlyne Yi and Michael Cera will appear in “Paper Heart,” a romance melding documentary and narrative styles. I’m going out on a limb here but I predict that at some point Cera will be flummoxed. To the point of awkward silence.
The always frank, no bullshit slinging David Cross talks about a wealth of topics, including the joy of not having to talk anymore about whether there’s going to be an “Arrested Development” movie.
One Film Wonder: In 1986, in a watershed moment for American independent cinema, Spike Lee released “She’s Gotta Have It.” The shoestring budgeted film with the thunderbolt cultural effect artfully followed three suitors, including Lee’s comic creation Mars Blackmon, as they formed simultaneous relationships with the enticing and untethered Brooklynite Nola Darling, played by Tracy Camilla Johns. She’s only found roles in four projects since, including a part as a “club patron” in Lee’s “Mo’ Better Blues.”
