August 11-17, 2005 screen picks Screen Picks by Sam Adams El Topo (Thu., Aug. 11, 8 p.m., free, the Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St.) An inexplicable amalgam of Buñuel, Herzog and Leone, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s midnight movie par excellence is an endlessly…
July 21-27, 2005 movies Savage Innocence yes i will again yes: Simon Abkarian, left, goes back for seconds of Joan Allen. Yes and Me and You and Everyone We Know are as complicated as they are simple. by Sam Adams…
July 7-13, 2005 cover story Up From the Underground don’t call it a comeback: Taylor Mead relaxes at his favorite neighborhood haunt. Photo By: Michael koehler Warhol superstar Taylor Mead comes back from being “Buried Alive.” by Sam Adams “No…
June 9-15, 2005 screen picks Screen Picks by Sam Adams F for Fake ($39.95 DVD)/The Immortal Story (Thu., June 9, 8 p.m., free, The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St.) A giddy hybrid of documentary, essay film and not-so-concealed fiction, Orson Welles’…
June 9-15, 2005 movies Up in the Air this bold house: The title character of Howl’s Moving Castle. Hayao Miyazaki rewrites the rules with the dizzying Howl’s Moving Castle. by Sam Adams Clanking through the mist like a mechanical boar,…
June 9-15, 2005 movies Up in the Air this bold house: The title character of Howl’s Moving Castle. Hayao Miyazaki rewrites the rules with the dizzying Howl’s Moving Castle. by Sam Adams Clanking through the mist like a mechanical boar,…
May 12-18, 2005 movies Unwhole Land SOMETHING THERE IS THAT DOESN’T LOVE A WALL: A fragment from Route 181. The Philadelphia Palestine Film Festival shines a light on divisions in the Middle East. by Sam Adams Its name alone conveys…
April 28-May 4, 2005 movies Don’t Look Back reverse angle: Sharon Wilkins (right) as one-eighth of Palindromes‘ Aviva. Palindromes reckons with Todd Solondz’s past and blazes a bright new future. by Sam Adams Here we go again. Todd Solondz’s new…
April 28-May 4, 2005 movies Irreconcilable Differences Interview: Todd Solondz by Sam Adams “Getting people to love me is not what drives me,” says Todd Solondz, squeezing the latest of many lemons into his water. “But it gives me no…
April 28-May 4, 2005 movies Don’t Look Back reverse angle: Sharon Wilkins (right) as one-eighth of Palindromes‘ Aviva. Palindromes reckons with Todd Solondz’s past and blazes a bright new future. by Sam Adams Here we go again. Todd Solondz’s new…
