Edelstein Remembers Miramax“Your recent films ‘The Queen’ and ‘Diving Bell’ were the best of their respective years, and you never made anything as grisly as ‘Nine.’
ByLane Brown
the projectionist
Edelstein on the ‘Libertarian Smokescreen’“To fight the charges of Puritanism, I guess I have to haul out my pervert-atheist credentials and support for legal marijuana.”
Edelstein on 2012“‘2012’ rides in on and reinforces an especially idiotic wave of evangelical doomsday predictions with supposed roots in the Mayan calendar, and it’s too trivial to live.”
ByLane Brown
the projectionist
Edelstein on This Is It“It’s vivid, illuminating, and sometimes — more often than you’d think possible — inspiring.”
ByLane Brown
the projectionist
Edelstein on Antichrist“It turns out what they say about Willem Dafoe is true: The man has a schlong the size of an oil tanker.”
ByLane Brown
the projectionist
Edelstein on Polanski“Now, there will be a lot of grandstanding by idiots, who will say that Polanski is worse than the likes of Peter Braunstein and should be thrown in prison for the remainder of his life.”
the projectionist
Edelstein on Moore“It’s sprawling, scattershot, sniggery, and, in one instance, exploitative. It’s brazenly one-sided. But …”
ByLane Brown
the projectionist
Edelstein on Swayze“In ‘Dirty Dancing,’ Swayze combined brawny physicality and feline grace in a way that made millions of women (and a lot of men) weak in the knees.”
ByLane Brown
the projectionist
Edelstein on Ignoring CriticsDavid Edelstein, too, is disappointed ‘Final Destination 3-D’ and ‘Halloween II’ won’t be screened for critics.
ByLane Brown
the projectionist
Edelstein on Hughes“Of all the big, commercially successful American auteurs, he has always seemed to me the most mysterious, the most conflicted, the most unfulfilled.”
ByLane Brown
the projectionist
Edelstein UnabridgedYou’ve read David Edelstein’s reviews of ‘Harry Potter 6’ and ’(500) Days of Summer’ — but have you read them with footnotes?
Edelstein on David CarradineDavid Carradine didn’t seem given to advance planning, career calculation, or control. He was the anti–Tom Cruise.
ByMark Graham
the projectionist
Downey’s Douchiness Reconsidered“It’s easier to see why Robert Downey Jr. bristled when asked what his character in ‘Tropic Thunder’ would say about Jamie Foxx’s performance as the brilliant cellist Nathaniel Ayers.”
Edelstein on The Human Condition’Yes, it’s worth it, but more for the experience — for the commitment itself — than because Kobayashi’s humanism will rock your world.’
De Palma Versus Cuban: Edelstein Enters the RingToday David Edelstein throws his considerable critical weight into the controversy over whether real photos of injured soldiers belong in Brian De Palma’s Redacted.
