Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
September 22nd, 2007
Veteran director Sidney Lumet sends Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke to Westchester for a botched robbery in this grim family crime drama scripted by playwright Kelly Masterson. “It’s a hell of story,” Lumet boasted at the press conference following the New York Film Festival screening, “it’s masterfully plotted.”
The rest of my review of Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead is up on About.com.
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead. Sidney Lumet, 2007. **
Factotum
December 8th, 2006
Unlike, say, The Queen, Factotum doesn’t grow in complexity when you see it again, but it’s a hell of a fun place to revisit. My favorite scene this time is when Chinaski gives Lili Taylor his shoes.
- My Factotum review on About.com
- Bukowski: Born Into This Review
- Top Ten Movies About Writers
- Buk poem: “roll the dice”
Factotum. Bent Hamer, 2005. ****
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