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Richard Lewis: Greetings From Hell

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marshall Fine

Richard Lewis is on the phone, shot out of a cannon almost as soon as you pick up the receiver.

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Alec Monopoly: An Art Show, Minus the Artist

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alec Monopoly, Street Art, Travis Bickle, New York Street Art, Bob Dylan, New York, New York City, Robert DeNiro, Chelsea Art Galleries, Chelsea Art, Christian Bale, Graffiti Nyc, Graffiti, John Wellington Ennis, Slidepollajax, Jack Nicholson, Arts News
John Wellington Ennis

Completing your first exhibit is a struggle thats compounded when you can't get in to your own studio because the cops are parked outside waiting for you in unmarked taxi cabs with sirens.

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New York, You've Changed: Taxi Driver, Part III

Nick Carr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hilton Theatre, Gothic Cabinet Craft, Language of Love, Betsy, Jodie Foster, Manhattan Bridge, Martin Scorsese, Films, Travis Bickle, Madison-Square-Park, Scouting Ny, Movies, New York News
Nick Carr

I don't look back nostalgically on the grittier New York of the late 1970s. As I never experienced it first hand, I believe it's dangerous and naive to romanticize something the city has worked to rise up from.

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New York, You've Changed: Taxi Driver (Part 1)

Nick Carr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Film Locations, New York Film, Film, Scouting Ny, Robert DeNiro, Travis Bickle, Movies, Taxi Driver, New York News
Nick Carr

Finding the locations used in Taxi Driver turned out to be incredibly difficult; the film documents a city that has since been demolished, rebuilt, spit-shined, and stamped with a seal of approval.

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Movie review: Big Fan

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marshall Fine

Thanks to Patton Oswalt's soulful, sometimes dim, sometimes scabrous Paul, Big Fan plunges us into the world of the superfan in a unique way.

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Movie Review: Observe & Report

Zorianna Kit | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paul Rudd, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Kevin James, Napoleon Dynamite, Danny McBride, Patton Oswalt, Judd Apatow, Travis Bickle, Anna Faris, Azia Ansari, Observe and Report, Evan Goldberg, Michael Pena, Adam Sandler, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, James Franco, Entertainment News
Zorianna Kit

Rogen, often a writer and producer on his comedies, is just a gun for hire in Observe and Report. This darker, often violent, bizarre and mostly unfunny movie is not the best choice for him.

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