Aurora Atrocitas: The Dark Knight Crisis by Armond White for CityArts

The clash of art and reality should be a cultural turning point By Armond White The Christopher Nolan Batman movies are not exactly life affirming, so why do pundits refuse to connect those films to last week’s Aurora, Colorado, massacre at the midnight showing of Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises? …

To Nullify Film Criticism: Analysis by Armond White for CityArts

Knight Rises, Culture Falls: How Internet fanaticism over The Dark Knight Rises overtook film culture By Armond White Already, The Dark Knight Rises has caused movie media to embarrass itself. Those front page headlines in both the Daily News (four stars) and New York Post (four stars) are heralds of …

Savages reviewed by Armond White for CityArts

An Oliver Stone Retrospective in Savages By Armond White Oliver Stone’s cinematic command turns Savages, his 19th film, into a reconsideration of his entire previous oeurve. Its story of three white California-carefree young adults progeny whose post-hippie, post-yuppie initiative into the drug trade conflicts with a Mexican cartel recalls Stone’s …

Andre Techine’s Unforgivable: Best Film of the Year? reviewed by Armond White for CityArts

Unforgivable by Armond White Cherubina, the nickname given to Judith (Carole Bouquet) in Unforgivables, comes from the love trickster in Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro. Judith, a former model with a bisexual past, now sells real estate, brokering a villa in Venice to the macho novelist Francis (Andre Dussollier) …

Magic Mike reviewed by Armond White for CityArts

Beefcake with Arty Frosting Channing Tatum hides behind Magic Mike By Armond White So what if Channing Tatum started as a stripper? The problem with Magic Mike, the semi-autobiographical melodrama he co-produced, is that he couldn’t find a filmmaker to properly translate that beefcake experience to the screen. Whatever Tatum …

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