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• August 11, 2009
  Stupid is as stupid does
  By Peter Keough

  Every Presidential election the out-of-office party usually says something like, "Do you feel better than you did four years ago?" Now that election 2008 is over, the "smart" guy is in the White House, and people are asking, "Do you feel dumber than you did 8 months ago?"

  Bill Maher, for example, doesn't feel any dumber, but he's disappointed that everyone else does, or at least should feel that way.

  

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• August 07, 2009
  Cinema lacking Polish?
  By Peter Keough

  

  I know you've all got more important things on your mind, but lately I've been thinking - whatever happened to Polish cinema? It was once the cinema powerhouse of Eastern Europe with directors like Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Krzysztof Zanussi, Andrzej Wajda and Krzysztof Kieslowski

  

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• August 07, 2009
  ...and thickens
  By Peter Keough

  I was kind of kidding when I suggested that the Clinton/Kim prisoner release deal was a North Korean/Hollywood co-production. But instead it turns out my instincts were right! As if further confirmation were needed that the entire stunt was a package put together by an unholy alliance between Producer Steve Bing and Kim Il Jong's lackey kidnapped filmmakers, here's New York Post's columnist Andrea Pyser's shrewd observation:

  

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• August 06, 2009
  The plot thickens
  By Peter Keough

  At first it just seemed like a silly idea, that the Clinton/Kim prisoner release summit meeting was scripted. But it turns out that Clinton's trip was funded by A HOLLYWOOD PRODUCER! Steve Bing, who produced "Polar Express," "Shine a Light" and "Beowulf" and has been a longtime contributor to the Democratic Party (he also fathered a child with Elizabeth Hurley) sprang for the $100,000 for the jet rental A small investment, it would seem, if the story hits the big screen.

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• August 05, 2009
  Kim and Clinton: the movie?
  By Peter Keough
  

  I was watching some of the news stories on Clinton's success at getting the two journalists released from North Korea and one of the reporters said something to the effect that if you had written this in a movie script no one would have believed it.

  Then it occurred to me: WAS it a movie script? Kim is known to be an avid movie buff with thousands of films in his collection.

  

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• July 31, 2009
  Bad lieutenants then and now
  By Peter Keough
  

  Things were different with police protocol back in 1991. At least in Abel Ferrara's New York City.

  Today a cop gets into a confrontation involving race and the problem gets resolved over a beer with the President at the White House. Back then, or as seen in Ferrara's "Bad Lieutenant (1992)," which came out in a new DVD edition earlier this week from Lionsgate, the sequence is somewhat reversed.

  

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• July 29, 2009
  First woman to win the Best Director Oscar?
  By Peter Keough

  Among the films I've seen this year two are directed by women: Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" and Nora Ephron's "Julie & Julia," which opens August 7. Which makes me think - could this be the year that a woman finally wins the Best Director Oscar?

  

  Even to get nominated would be significant.

  

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• July 28, 2009
  Interview with Armando Iannucci, conclusion
  By Peter Keough

  

  Sorry for the long delay for part three. I was on vacation!

  Since my mind is continually spinning new and specious ideas about movies, however, it did occur to me during this down time that maybe we're seeing the development of a new mini-genre: the Iraq movie that isn't about Iraq. Like "The Hurt Locker;" it's a war movie that just happens to be in Iraq.

  

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• July 20, 2009
  Armando Iannucci interview, part 2
  By Peter Keough

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• July 18, 2009
  Interview with Armando Iannucci, director of "In the Loop"
  By Peter Keough

  

  Six years later after it started we can appreciate a film about the Iraq War, or least one as masterful as Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker." But how about the deceits and manipulations that made it all possible? That's where Armando Iannucci, veteran funny man for BBC, comes in with his rapid fire, hilarious and outrageous "In the Loop.

  

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