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...Daniels is always worth watching because he does a lot with a little; for him, the difference between bliss and rage is the subtle shifting of about two facial muscles. With Daniels (The Squid and the Whale) and Pucci (Thumbsucker) joined by Kat Dennings (Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist) and Olivia Thirlby (Snow Angels), the movie is like a convention of appealing indie stars. Writer-director John Hindman mostly gives them room to breathe, and The Answer Man is likable because it doesn't try too hard to be. (See pictures of LIFE's best celebrity covers...
...movies than any other. In its scope and vigor, this is the New York film festival, and it's run not by a heavily subsidized arts institution but by a few knowledgeable guys from Brooklyn who want to share their enthusiasms with the fanboys of the tristate area. The playlist has grown from 11 features in 2002 to more than 50 this time, and includes movies not just from Japan and China but also Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Tamil state of India. Few of these titles are likely to get a U.S. release, which is a shame, but there...
...himself since his Arrested Development days. In Juno he was the affable guy with the earnest delivery, who came across as self-effacing, but also so utterly unperturbed by his own absent chin that he somehow became plausible as a romantic lead. In Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, the apparently innate peevishness, a whine that pays homage to the hunting mosquito, which had worked so well in Superbad, had begun to grate, but it was still clear that the movie would have been completely, instead of mostly, forgettable without...
...with theatrical entertainment of the highest order - the front-of-house ensemble are all trained opera singers specializing in bel canto (meaning beautiful singing), the melodic Italian vocal style of the 18th and early 19th centuries, which impresses with all manner of embellishments, fast scales and long trills. The playlist judiciously balances pieces that appeal to the aesthete yet remain accessible to the opera-ignorant: most of the extracts - performed for a couple of minutes at approximately 15-minute intervals - are familiar arias by Verdi, Rossini, Bizet and Mozart. (See 10 things to do in London...
...than at Prom. But throughout the night there were no real signs of a grand old time—no DFMOs, no dirty dancing, not really even too much bumping and/or grinding. FlyBy blames that on the cheesy disco light medley and the jaded turn-of-the-millennium playlist that included hits like “My Boo” and “Numa Numa...