Best known for playing Jim Halpert on NBC's The Office, John Krasinski's ambitious feature directing debut is an ungainly adaptation of David Foster Wallace's short story collection...
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men Directed by John Krasinski IFC Films Opens September 25 Trying for tribute, John Krasinski makes a mess of DFW's Hideous Men 'Everything I write ends up being about loneliness, said the late writer David Foster Wallace in a 1999 interview on the radio show Bookworm. Sara leaves her apartment and passes a man (Will Arnett) in the hallway, who is delivering a monologue about abandonment through the closed door of his girlfriend's apartment That's a clever enough idea on paper, perhaps, but the setup ends up undercutting the messagehis words don't land.
If an artist's job is to criticize culture, then [David Foster Wallace] is American literature's high priest of carp. In books like Infinite Jest and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Wallace revs up his pet peeves and sends them soaring on gusts of linguistic bloviation. Oblivion continues this tradition with eight satirically weird stories that poke fun at the media, America's obsession with health, our lurid fascination with children, and the falseness of advertising. It's hardly a new list of Wallace bugaboos, but in Oblivion he uses them as backdrops, pushing to the foreground a debate with himself over whether language is effective at all. Wallace buries these cringe-producing bits of human emotion so deeply in the blizzard of information he marshals here that even a preternatura...
Well, at least that's the vibe one gets from his ambitious feature directing debut, an ungainly adaptation of [David Foster Wallace]'s short story collection Brief Interviews With Hideous Men. A tangled thicket of male self-deception and macho posturing, the movie wrestles with Wallace's dense verbiage, employing fractured timeline editing techniques, whip-lash inducing tonal shifts, and emphatically dissimilar acting styles. All that's missing is a point. Some tension finally emerges within the film's final third, as [Julianne Nicholson] is reluctant to confront an overzealous young student who just wrote a paper arguing for the virtues of rape and abuse, because at least the victims learn some sort of truth about themselves. It's a sophomoric, offensive tirade, but one delivered with ...
OXFORD AMERICAN WRITER'S THESAURUS, several contributing editors, Oxford University Press, 1,088 pages, $40. Advertised as the "First Thesaurus for Writers by Writers," the "Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus" is a substantial volume edited by nine prominent writers -- including David Auburn, Pulitzer Prize- winning playwright of "Proof"; David Lehman, prominent poet; Francine Prose, an editor at Harper's; Zadie Smith, famous for "White Teeth," a novel that won the Whitbread Award; Simon Winchester, author of "The Professor and the Madman"; Stephen Merritt, a composer; Jean Strouse, biographer of J. P. Morgan; David Foster Wallace, author of "Infinite Jest" and "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men"; and Michael Dirda, senior editor for the Washington Post Book World.
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A new family-friendly movie that inexplicably went directly to DVD leads off this collection of recent films released for the first time to home video. Hachi: A Dog's Tale" (Sony, 2010, G, $24.95). Instead of a boy- and-his-dog story, this is a man-and-his-dog story -- or, more correctly, a dog-and-his-man story. And it makes for a sweet family tearjerker.
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'Broken Embraces' (Sony Pictures) When famed Spanish director Pedro Almodovar and leading lady Penelope Cruz combine forces, the result is usually one of cinematic success. Consider the wondrous "All About My Mother" (1999) and the exciting "Volver" (2006) as evidence in marking this team as a winning one. Their newest "Broken Embraces" is a colorful neo-noir feature that focuses on a riveting and secretive love affair that generates a flurry of emotions. The pic is lifted heartily by worthwhile performances from Cruz, Lluis Homar, Tamar Novas and Jose Luis Gomez, and these showings mix in wonderfully with a clever script written by Almodovar. Beautiful looking and housing a story with plenty of layers, the movie tells the tale of Mateo Blanco (Homar), a writer and filmmaker, who has c...
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