Andrew O'Hehir - Salon.com http://dir.salon.com/topics/andrew_ohehir/?source=rss&aim=andrew_ohehir en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT Inside the Army's fake Iraq Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/07/09/battle_rattle/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/07/09/battle_rattle/index.html?source=rss Welcome to the military's Iraq Simulation, where the townspeople are Arab actors, the insurgents come from Arkansas -- and things tend to go horribly wrong. A-Rod vs. the dueling Sherlock clones! Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/07/08/bo/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/07/08/bo/index.html?source=rss A new frontier in Other Woman liberation, except not. Whose next-gen Sherlock Holmes will be lamer? Plus: "Wackness" and "Tell No One" wow holiday throngs. Bedtime for "Gonzo" Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/07/04/gibney_gonzo/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/07/04/gibney_gonzo/index.html?source=rss Alex Gibney talks about his Oscar-winning "Taxi to the Dark Side" and his new look at Hunter S. Thompson, American hero. (Plus: Audio podcast.) On the dopeness of "The Wackness" Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/07/03/wackness/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/07/03/wackness/index.html?source=rss In this interview and podcast, director Jonathan Levine talks about how Holden Caulfield met Rudy Giuliani and Biggie in the heartbroken, heat-stricken New York summer of 1994. Japanese film's not-so-new new wave Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/07/02/japan_cuts/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/07/02/japan_cuts/index.html?source=rss Asia's greatest cinema power never really lost its mojo. But 10 years after Kurosawa's death, Japanese movies are hotter (and weirder) than ever. A murdered wife who isn't dead Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/30/tell_no_one/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/30/tell_no_one/index.html?source=rss Harlan Coben's beach-read bestseller "Tell No One" becomes a crackerjack thriller -- made in France. "La Dolce Vita" in old age Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/27/elsa/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/27/elsa/index.html?source=rss An elderly Spanish couple -- one dignified, the other not -- revisits the classic love affair between Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg. Dalton Trumbo and American evil Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/26/trumbo/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/26/trumbo/index.html?source=rss How the legendary screenwriter of "Roman Holiday" and "Spartacus" defied Congress, broke the blacklist and raised his family. Indie film is dying -- unless it isn't Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/24/indie_death/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/24/indie_death/index.html?source=rss Yes, distributors are closing, films are tanking and insiders are muttering that doom is nigh. But the best filmmakers always survive. Meet the Japanese Brando Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/21/nakadai/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/21/nakadai/index.html?source=rss Little known outside his homeland, haunted hero-villain Tatsuya Nakadai spans the best years, and greatest films, of Japan's postwar cinema boom. Maddin and Herzog: Brothers of the ice! Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/19/winnipeg/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/19/winnipeg/index.html?source=rss It's frozen allegory week -- in summer! Guy Maddin reveals the sleepwalking sex secrets of Winnipeg; Werner Herzog chases psycho penguins in Antarctica. Monday roundup: Hulk vs. Shakespeare Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/2008/06/16/monday/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/2008/06/16/monday/index.html?source=rss "Hulk" director says superhero flicks are boring! So I'm off to a 10-hour Japanese film. Also: A.P.'s wacky war against the blogosphere. Kinky underwear in Antarctica Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/13/roundup/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/13/roundup/index.html?source=rss Opening this week: Farmiga's feral femme fatale, Herzog at the South Pole, a true-life gay love story, the amazing "Blue Planet" and more. The Little Tramp's killer comedy Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/12/verdoux/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/12/verdoux/index.html?source=rss How Charlie Chaplin's poisonously dark "Monsieur Verdoux" drove the audience away -- and was embraced by critics and filmmakers as a masterpiece. Sex, death and the city (i.e., Prague) Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/12/beauty_trouble/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/12/beauty_trouble/index.html?source=rss Smoldering Ana Geislerová lights up the screen in a dark, sexy blend of romance and social satire, one of the year's best foreign flicks. Clint vs. Spike: WWII racial grudge match! Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/11/clint_spike/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/11/clint_spike/index.html?source=rss A British paper lures Eastwood and Lee into an unfortunate feud. Here's the real question: Which of their films should the other one have made? Genghis Khan, Harlan Ellison and RFK Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/06/opening/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/06/opening/index.html?source=rss We haven't exhausted the kids' movies topic yet, believe me! Meanwhile here's a quickie guide to new films opening this week (that I'm not covering). I'm on vacation. But you can help out! Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/02/vacation/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/02/vacation/index.html?source=rss Seeking suggestions: Best movies for kids, non-current, non-Disney (or at least non-CGI) and non-obvious preferred. "I Spit on Your Grave," Italian style Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/05/30/unknown/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/05/30/unknown/index.html?source=rss Massive Euro-hit "The Unknown Woman" is ludicrous and trashy -- don't miss it! Plus: "Stuck" in a windshield and left to die. Impaled on the windshield of life Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/05/30/stuck/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/05/30/stuck/index.html?source=rss Is Stuart Gordon's black-comic horror movie "Stuck" just tabloid-fueled gore or American metaphor? Post-Cannes update: Sony claims "Bashir" and "Tyson" Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/05/29/update/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/05/29/update/index.html?source=rss What art-house recession? Sony Classics buys Israeli animation, boxing doc, Belgian crime drama. IFC grabs "Gomorrah," but no word on "Che," "Synecdoche." "My kids think I work in a trailer" Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/05/29/moore/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/05/29/moore/index.html?source=rss In this interview and podcast, Julianne Moore talks about being a normal mom and her distinctly abnormal role in the incest-murder drama "Savage Grace." 10 from Cannes, with love Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/05/27/10_out_of_cannes/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/05/27/10_out_of_cannes/index.html?source=rss From "Che" to a rowdy Paris high school to a murderous "Tony Manero," here are Cannes' 2008 hits-in-waiting -- and a few more that deserve a second look. At Cannes, a big win for old Europe Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/05/26/cannes_wrap/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/05/26/cannes_wrap/index.html?source=rss Laurent Cantet's joyful, tragic "The Class" is the first French Palme d'Or winner in 21 years; Benicio del Toro named best actor for "Che." Why the Cannes boo-birds are wrong (as usual) Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/05/25/martel/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/05/25/martel/index.html?source=rss Argentine director Lucrecia Martel talks about her intriguing class-war drama "The Headless Woman" and its hostile reception at Cannes.