Stephen Whitty
Author and Film Critic at Freelance
Film Critic at Film Racket
Critic, interviewer, lecturer, incurable movie-watcher, writer of reviews, interviews, short stories, essays, shopping lists..
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1 week ago |
njarts.net | Stephen Whitty
2 We lost another movie house. On April 30, part of the ceiling of the historic Cranford Theater collapsed. There was no audience inside the affected auditorium at the time — luckily — but the entire building had to be evacuated. It remains shuttered while the damage is assessed. The 99-year-old picture house plans to reopen — its owners specialize in revitalizing vintage theaters. But it’s hard not to see this as one more nail in the coffin of local movie-going.
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2 weeks ago |
njarts.net | Stephen Whitty
2 James Gandolfini, 51, was finally in a good place. He had banked enough money to support himself and his family for years to come. He had built up enough Hollywood cred to do almost anything he wanted — a documentary for HBO, the rom-com “Enough Said.”Then, on June 19, 2013, he had a massive, fatal heart attack. But unlike the ending of that last episode of “The Sopranos,” critic and historian Jason Bailey isn’t willing to just cut to black.
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1 month ago |
njarts.net | Stephen Whitty
1 “Everything looks worse in black and white,” Paul Simon sang in “Kodachrome.”David Chase begs to differ. And so, 13 years after “Not Fade Away” debuted, he is bringing back his look at ’60s suburbia, New Jersey adolescence and garage-band dreams — in a starker, simpler, monochromatic print.
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1 month ago |
njarts.net | Stephen Whitty
1 Growing up in a typical upper-middle-class family in suburban New Jersey, Beth Toni Kruvant’s path seemed pretty predictable — college, then law school, then joining her father’s practice in Newark. And she pretty much stayed on that path for more than 20 years. But then something happened. Filmmaking happened.
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2 months ago |
njarts.net | Stephen Whitty
3 Last night, Anora, that scrappy little sex worker from Brighton Beach, finally got paid. That character’s bold perseverance — and unabashed candor — helped the film of the same name dominate the 97th Academy Awards, beating bigger contenders to take home five Oscars, including Best Picture and a Best Actress prize for Mikey Madison. It also helped indie filmmaker — and Short Hills native — Sean Baker make history by becoming the only person to win four Oscars for a single film.
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Thanks to Hook Publicity, @sonyclassics and everyone who helped bring "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life" to The Picture House last night (and got its director, and star, to join us for a Zoom). A charming French rom-com that opens this month at a variety of theaters, including ours. https://t.co/G1SJCtzBYt
I absolutely agree! And if your point of reference for Rex Harrison is limited to "My Fair Lady," do see his astonishingly young self in "Night Train to Munich." There's a reason he soon got the nickname "Sexy Rexy."
If you weren’t at MIDNIGHT COWBOY at @ParisTheaterNYC tonight, you didn’t hear my intro pitch for the HITCH! series kick-off at 6:45pm on Fri night. (I highly recommend it…) Our friend @StephenWhitty will be there to introduce the program. https://t.co/qpQq4vBUKn
RT @JHVanco: If you weren’t at MIDNIGHT COWBOY at @ParisTheaterNYC tonight, you didn’t hear my intro pitch for the HITCH! series kick-off a…
