Movies: September 2008 Archives

A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory Institute of Contemporary Art South Boston Saturday-Sunday Tickets and more information. Esther Robinson is an accidental film director. A chance meeting at the Andy Warhol Foundation led her to discover a cache of 20 films directed by her uncle, Danny Williams, whom she had never met. Williams had been a fixture at Andy Warhol's Factory, making experimental films about Factory habitués, including Edie Sedgwick and the Velvet Underground, and running the light show......

Burn After Reading is the Coen brother's latest comedic re-imagining of genre conventions, sliding in next to The Hudsucker Proxy (Horatio Alger Stories), and The Big Lebowski (film noir). But despite Reading's frequent attempts to channel Lebowski's spirit, the movie is largely devoid of the madcap energy that makes Lebowski so irresistible, and often devoid of any energy whatsoever. For all its humor (and there will be humor), the movie is a mostly glum affair with serious actors doing serious things quite seriously....