Title: Life Itself Magnolia Pictures Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes Grade: A- Director: Steve James Cast: Roger Ebert, Chaz Ebert, Raven Evans, Ava Du Vernay, Ramin Bahrani, Richard Corliss, Nancy De Los Santos, Bruce Elliot, Thea Flaum, Josh Golden, Werner Herzog, Marlene Iglitzen, Donna Lapietra, Rick Kogan, John McHugh, Errol Morris, Howie Movshovitz, Gregory Nava, William Nack, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Martin Scorsese, A.O. Scott, Roger Simon Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 6/18/14 Opens: July 4, 2014 Of all recognizable film critics, Roger Ebert was not the deepest thinker, the hippest writer, the best looking, or the one most willing to upset every consensus of opinion. For [ Read More ]
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- 6/23/2014
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
If Dennis Farina had come up in the forties, he might have made three movies with Humphrey Bogart — one where he killed Bogart, another where he helped Bogart get the girl, and another one in which Bogart killed Dennis Farina, most likely in a hail of bullets. The actor, who died today at 69, and starred in TV’s Crime Story and such films as Midnight Run and Get Shorty, had a pre–World War II Warner Bros. gangster movie face: pockmarked, with dark eyes and a walrus mustache. He also had an authentic and very thick Shu-cahh-go accent because he was a Chicago guy through-and-through, with a mug that Chicago Tribune writer Rick Kogan said “should be found at dawn, unloading crates of lettuce from the back of a truck on Randolph Street."Farina could be menacing or courtly, sometimes in the same moment, and he exuded physical authority in...
- 7/22/2013
- by Matt Zoller Seitz
- Vulture
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