Confessions of a Pop Fan

Thursday, July 19, 2007

WE HATE THE KIDS

THIS WEEK AT THE THEATRE...

* Hairspray, a musical where Travolta is revolting, but the rest is the best, and even a little of John Waters' perverse humor remains intact

* Interview, where Steve Buscemi gets behind a camera and shows us why we should care who Sienna Miller is

* Rescue Dawn, Werner Herzog's dramatic remake of one of his own documentaries, with Christian Bale as a POW on the run in Laos

THIS WEEK IN DVD REVIEWS...

* Kon Ichikawa's 47 Ronin, a staid retelling of the classic Japanese samurai tale

* Les enfants terribles: Criterion Collection, the collision of Jean Cocteau and Jean-Pierre Melville

* Pacino: An Actor's Vision, a collection of three features directed by Al Pacino, with accompanying supplements where the actor explains his art

* The Panic In Needle Park, another Pacino film, bringing back his first major role, where he played a junkie and a crook

Somehow I resisted the urge to compare the shoplifting described in the first paragraph of my review of Les enfants terribles to the shoplifting scene in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Until now!