TRAILER REVIEW: ‘Tetro’ or Francis Ford Coppola maybe made a weak-ass art house movie

Francis Ford Coppola released the trailer for his new movie “Tetro” last week. It stars Vincent Gallo, who’s practically certifiable. See his Wikipedia entry. (I have no doubt, for instance, that the brilliant character of filmmaker Billy Walsh in “Entourage” is in part based on Gallo.)

INTERVIEW: Laurie Halse Anderson

An editor tossed a copy of a book called “Wintergirls” in front of me a month or two ago and asked if I wanted to interview the author when she dropped by Decatur Library. I said OK. I didn’t know anything about author Laurie Halse Anderson when I saw the book and later learned a bunch, including that she wrote a book that was adapted into a movie I’ve been meaning to see.

When I discovered Claire Danes and Angela Chase were not the same thing

Claire Danes, similar to how she looked when I met her as a film critic in 2005

I wrote about movies my final semester in college. I reviewed some (“Syriana,” “In Her Shoes,” “Walk the Line” among many others), and I interviewed directors, actors and producers who rolled through Washington, D.C., on press tours. These interviews tend to be between 15 minutes and an hour, and they can be one on one or with a group of journalists. Most of the time it doesn’t matter. Nothing surprising is said, and the actors and directors tend to respond on cue with answers they’ve rehearsed or memorized over the last 10 weeks as they traveled the country.

SteelBooks or I don’t know what to do about freakin’ SteelBooks

I was perusing the DVD sale at Borders on Ponce de Leon Avenue on Tuesday. It’s usually somewhat sacriligeous and pretty much downright idiotic to buy movies at Borders and Barnes & Noble, which specialize in buying DVDs and then marking them up about $10 because retarded white people and coffee drinkers are willing to spend $25 on a copy of “Oldboy” simply because it’s “a cool Korean movie… very, like, Kafkaesque.”