The Atlantic Film Festival 2012: Parties and premieres, The Disappeared review

September 14, 2012 flawintheiris

The AFF opening night party is always a blast—even when the heat makes for a human stew, as it did at last year's venue. Last night's edition did not disappoint. Big kudos to the organizers who had the food and free cocktails—champagne followed by rye and ginger—running all evening. The site, the cavernous Cunard Centre,…Read More

“Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” and Google

September 13, 2012 flawintheiris

Believe it or not, now Google provides you with a "Bacon Number." (Makes you wonder if you can find anyone who's ever worked in Hollywood who has as many as six degrees from him. Most of the ones I've tried are between one and three degrees...)Read More

Atlantic Film Festival 2012: Here we go

September 13, 2012 flawintheiris

It's "Christmas for Carsten," as a friend of mine called it. I've been attending and/or writing about The Atlantic Film Festival since 2003. Invariably I see at least one film that blows me away, something I wouldn't have seen otherwise at the local multiplex monopoly.For those who don't know, the AFF is an annual event,…Read More

Celeste and Jesse Forever review

September 10, 2012 flawintheiris

Directed by Lee Toland Krieger Written by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack There's that saying that if you can't find a good job you should make one. If you're an actor, it means writing yourself a role. That's what Rashida Jones has done here in Celeste and Jesse Forever, a well-made indie romcom that cleaves…Read More

A Cult of One: The Russia House

September 8, 2012 flawintheiris

Welcome back to this irregular feature on Flaw In The Iris, where I revisit an unheralded or underloved movie in my vault. I'm hoping to explain why the film works and why it deserves a fanbase. I'm also willing to accept I may be the only person to really appreciate the film in question... feel…Read More

The Words review

September 6, 2012 flawintheiris

The poster is the best thing about this picture Written and Directed by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal It's not very often I get to see a movie that fails as spectacularly as this one. And not in the usual way, from laziness or the factory-tooled mediocrity of many Hollywood movies. This doesn't fail…Read More

Top 20 Movies of 2000-2010

September 1, 2012 flawintheiris

This ends my trawl of the internets to find materials I wrote about movies before I started this blog two years ago, materials unseen by anyone but my friends. I hope it proves to be of some use to all y'all. The criteria for choosing the best films of a decade is different than…Read More