Top stories published by I’ve Had It With Hollywood in 2006

It’s not the same as a self-service cafeteria, in case you are confused. The other day, my fellow movieclub colleagues and I had an interesting discussion about what defines something self-serving. This arose because we all went to see Michel Gondry’s Dave Chappelle’s Block Party at BAM. We…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Nov 20, 2006

Cautiva

Yesterday the movie club had one of its frequent outings. We had every intention of checking out Scorsese’s The Departed but it sold out because Bond (I told you about Daniel Craig) sold out too.
Tip for moviegoers: the only reasonable time in NY to go to a movie without drama is Monday thru Wednesday. Or if you…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Jan 31, 2006

No Wonder Nobody Watches The Oscars Anymore

Well, they have been announced and they’re kinda lame… I’m offended by the fact that they couldn’t even get two glamorous past winners to announce the nominations. Yet I suspect it is a weakness of mine, that as much as the Oscars frustrate me, I feel…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Jan 30, 2006

Tristram Shandy Vol. 2

When I was in college, I took a course in 18th Century English Literature. Not because it was my favorite period, but because the 19th and 20th were already fully booked and I had no choice. It was a bummer. All the students whose last names started with M to Z, had to take this course; a…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Jan 1, 2006

Curb your Enthusiasm for Brokeback Mountain

Leave it to Larry David, a gezunt in his kepaleh, to hit the nail in the head.

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Apr 20, 2006

WTF is Latin Cinema?

If there is one thing that drives us Latins crazy is when we all get mixed in the same basket, as my dear friend Marta points out.
Oh, so they are kinda dark skinned and passionate and speak something other than English, then it must be Latins. Case in point, Variety’s news about the 2006…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Jan 8, 2006

Kong: The brute is a beaut

I laughed, I cried (I did!), and more than once my attention wandered over to the family next to me who were screaming at the screen at the top of their lungs and hollering WHOA! every time something happened, which was pretty much all the time. If Peter Jackson had been there…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Oct 1, 2006

Cache: Talk About Denial

As beautifully played by the great Daniel Auteil, Georges is everything the French think of themselves: civilized, sophisticated, cultured, softspoken and refined. He’s also a major asshole and is in huge denial about it, just like the French have been about their actions in Algiers…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Apr 20, 2006

Sir No Sir!

You must run to see this excellent and important documentary now showing at the IFC Center on 6th Ave and W3rd St. Sir no Sir! is a powerful film about the GI anti-war movement in Vietnam. It just makes one feel ashamed at the collective apathy and lack of balls we all have manifested in comparison.
Here’s…

Yehudit Mam in I’ve Had It With Hollywood

Nov 29, 2006

Miscellaneous

I scan the headlines and I see the usual: Bush insists the civil war in Iraq is not a civil war, as if by sheer force of stubborness and idiocy, reality would actually change to suit him and his petrified brain. It’s a civil war, stupid. Ask the relatives of the thousands of Iraqis who’ve been blown to…

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