http://cnylink.com/blogs Nancy Keefe Rhodes covers film, photo and visual arts for the City Eagle. She has written "Make it Snappy" since December 2006, a weekly film column reviewing both current theatrical releases and DVDs recent and enduring. She is a member of the national Women Film Critics Circle. She archives her film reviews at www.MovieCrossRhodes.blogspot.com. Reach her at nancykeeferhodes@gmail.com. en-us 60 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:33:47 -0800 Make it Snappy Maybe the surprise engagement softened us up, but I prefer to see it as further evidence of the enduring power of rock’n’roll. Local music fans will remember when WAER’s deejay http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1258385627 http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1258385627 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:42:42 -0800 Make it Snappy “The Vikings wore their shields on their backs when they went into battle, so it should be on the back,” says Josh, 22, a soft-faced boy with wide eyes and still a bit of baby http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1258134162 http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1258134162 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:11:02 -0700 Make it Snappy Midway through this story set in South Africa’s Johannesburg, the ingratiating corporate gopher charged with being the public face of a massive forced removal himself takes http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1250964662 http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1250964662 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:07:37 -0700 Make it Snappy The film opens just as the first episode of the television show did on January 10, 1949. Ample-bosomed Jewish mother Molly Goldberg (Gertrude Berg) leans out the kitchen window http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1250114857 http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1250114857 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:58:59 -0700 Make it Snappy Beginning in the fall of 1971, reports – first in the “National Enquirer” – began appearing in the New York City press about a dilapidated mansion in an exclusive oceanfront http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1249340339 http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1249340339 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:14:08 -0700 Make it Snappy “I probably wasn’t injured because I was way in the back of the vehicle. I was on top of all the bottled water, because I was little,” my friend had explained, recounting how http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1248981248 http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1248981248 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:51:04 -0700 Make it Snappy (Rupert Friend as Cheri and Michelle Pfeiffer as Lea de Lonval) Stephen Frears’ “Chéri” is that unusual film that is worth seeing as much for its flaws as for its http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1248025864 http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1248025864 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:09:07 -0700 Make it Snappy In 1946 Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini made a film called “Paisᔠ– criminally hard to find here – whose six episodes depict the Allied liberation of Fascist Italy http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1246900147 http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1246900147 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:12:39 -0700 Make it Snappy From the start she has liked these tracking shots that seem to go rogue. Agnès Varda had no formal training in cinema when she made her first feature in 1954, but in the opening http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1245957159 http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1245957159 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:53:13 -0700 Make it Snappy Still peeved at Sam Mendes for last year’s disappointing and leaden “Revolutionary Road” and the waste of its two fine leads, many film critics have gone right on being http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1245984793 http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1245984793 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:39:14 -0700 Make it Snappy “I needed to be in New York because it’s, like, the biggest, loudest, dirtiest, most intense city we had,” recalls the young Brooklyn-based printmaker and installation artist http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1245325154 http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1245325154 Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:43:47 -0700 Make it Snappy When violinist Itzhak Perlman decided to explore the roots of Eastern European Jewish music – that amalgam of dance, folk song and liturgy that we know broadly as klezmer, http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1244497427 http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1244497427 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:35:28 -0700 Make it Snappy (At right, Italian horror master Dario Argento) In the first scene after the opening titles of Italian horror master Dario Argento’s "Deep Red" (1975), jazz http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1243884928 http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1243884928 Tue, 26 May 2009 11:23:05 -0700 Make it Snappy In 1971, at the age of 65 and the height of the Vietnam War, screenwriter and novelist Dalton Trumbo decided he would take up directing. He had talked with his friend the Spanish http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1243362185 http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1243362185 Tue, 19 May 2009 02:16:20 -0700 Make it Snappy As part of its participation in Th3, the monthly city-wide arts night held on every third Thursday, the Community Folk Art Center (CFAC) often screens a film with a discussion http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1242767780 http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1242767780 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:24:28 -0700 Make it Snappy You’d need a heart of stone not to love this movie on the night it premiered at Art Rage in late January. Consider the event itself a kind of triple whammy. First the http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1237407868 http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1237407868 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:05:12 -0700 Make it Snappy “Why do you like me?” asks Nazneen (Bengali actress Tannishtha Chatterjee) one day of her younger lover, the hip, hunky, London-reared Karim (Christopher Simpson). “Who says http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1236877512 http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1236877512 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:41:11 -0800 Make it Snappy Not too far into Kelly Reichardt’s latest road trip film, Wendy Carroll (Michelle Williams), the slight, dark-haired drifter in cut-offs and hoodie, has been dragged into the http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1236195671 http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1236195671 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:18:59 -0800 Make it Snappy Hunger Midway through this film about Bobby Sands, the first of ten Irish nationalist prisoners to die in the 1981 hunger strike in the North of Ireland in a bid to reclaim http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1234383539 http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1234383539 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:21:05 -0800 Make it Snappy [The CNY chapter of the Irish-American Cultural Institute screens Ken Loach's award-winning film on Feb. 10th at 7:00 PM at the Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church on Jamesville http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1233001265 http://cnylink.com/blogs/nrhodes/view_blog.php?blog_id=1233001265