Armond White Archive
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Dark Shadows reviewed by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on May 12, 2012 | No CommentsSpooky or Kooky? Tim Burton’s Campy Dark Shadows By Armond White Gone are the days when Tim Burton films made you laugh first. Now Burton more likely makes you cringe... -
Remebering Adam Yauch by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on May 4, 2012 | No CommentsGunnin’ For That #1 Spot Directed by Adam Yauch The Wackness Directed by Jonathan Levine By Armond White Midway through 2008, something surprising has happened: two films with human dimension... -
Celine and Julie Go Boating reviewed by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on May 4, 2012 | No CommentsThe Boy Who Played with Dolls Jacques Rivette’s Meta Movie Returns By Armond White Legend says (and an eyewitness confirms) that at the 1974 New York Film Festival press screening... -
Detention reviewed by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on April 13, 2012 | No CommentsDetention Kahn vs. the World of Pop By Armond White Pop culture moves fast but not as fast as Joseph Kahn’s Detention, a rampage through recent pop history that is... -
Being Flynn reviewed by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on March 4, 2012 | No CommentsBeing Flynn Gets Human By Armond White Award Season is over and we can try to get back to films as part of our culture and not some meaningless race... -
Wanderlust reviewed by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on February 28, 2012 | No CommentsMarino Waxes, Rudd Wanes in Wanderlust By Armond White Wanderlust starts with an idea borrowed from Albert Brooks’ 1986 Lost in America–a yuppie couple respond to career setbacks by embarking... -
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance reviewed by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on February 21, 2012 | No CommentsHeavy Metal Gothic Dek: Ghost Rider Redeems and Critiques By Armond White If the filmmaking team Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor wrote out their thoughts on how contemporary pop has... -
Safe House reviewed by Armond White for CityArts
Posted on February 8, 2012 | No CommentsDenzel Goes Rogue By Armond White Safe House, an espionage chase film set in South Africa, is rotten enough to be a sequel to District 9 where South African racial... -
The Turin Horse reviewed by Armond Whitefor CityArtd
Posted on February 5, 2012 | No CommentsBy Armond White Bela Tarr’s The Turin Horse isn’t funny at all but it sure is laughable. A Hungarian farmer with a bum arm Ohlsdorfer (Janos Derzi) lives in a... -
The Lost Art of Virtuosity
Posted on January 19, 2012 | No CommentsBy Armond White for CityArts Light Bulb Virtuosity–the quality that lit up the best of arts culture during 2012–turns out to be the quality least appreciated in this transitional period...