'Certifiably Jonathan' contrives crises for its subject - a bid to get his paintings into MOMA, among others. — Elvis Mitchell Artist Copy Share Image
A stand-up comedian who's assaultive and decent and has managed a career that has spanned over five decades deserves a documentary. — Elvis Mitchell Career Copy Share Image
'Ravenna' is, in many ways, the ultimate example of how a woman's perception of herself can lead to this horrible road being… — Elvis Mitchell Being Copy Share Image
The Ebert thing just didn't work out. We just couldn't, like, come to an agreement. And 'Movieline', they obviously didn't want me,… — Elvis Mitchell Agreement Copy Share Image
'Ali' offers stunning re-creations of bouts Ali fought. In the second Liston fight, the auditorium is underlighted and clouded with fetid cigar… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
African films should be thought of as offering as many different points of view as the film of any other different continent.… — Elvis Mitchell Cinema Copy Share Image
If Mr. Chan ever makes another movie like 'The Tuxedo,' it's American audiences that will see him in court. With 'Shanghai Knights,'… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
There's a great deal of echoing going on in 'Old School.' Mr. Piven, who played the upstart outsider in the 1994 campus… — Elvis Mitchell Comedy Copy Share Image
The documentary 'Certifiably Jonathan' has engrossing moments in it. How can it not? It's got a great subject - the extraordinarily voluble… — Elvis Mitchell Beautiful Copy Share Image
It's true that as Mr. Chan makes more American movies - and gets older - we will never again see the kind… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
When a director shifts gears as often as does Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, the man behind the emotionally rich debut film 'Amores Perros,'… — Elvis Mitchell Director Copy Share Image
One of a handful of films made in Detroit, '8 Mile' doesn't feature the Motown renaissance that Mayor Coleman A. Young dreamed… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
'Pootie Tang' may be raw and slovenly - hey, it often is raw and slovenly - but it succeeds as a laugh… — Elvis Mitchell Comedy Copy Share Image
Before he became 'a working actor,' as he now proudly calls himself, Jamie Dornan initially caught the public's attention as a model… — Elvis Mitchell Actor Copy Share Image
The idea of Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet so inflaming the fanboy community is amusing, since that group's 20/50 vision also… — Elvis Mitchell Comic Copy Share Image
The title 'Spirited Away' could refer to what Disney has done on a corporate level to the revered Japanese animation director Hayao… — Elvis Mitchell Anime Copy Share Image
Since most of 'Mean Girls' consists of the outsider Cady observing the tribal rites of her new setting and laying it all… — Elvis Mitchell Home Copy Share Image
Given the knee-jerk patriotism of recent war movies, it's discouraging to see 'Windtalkers' evade pertinent facts that could have recast the doubled-edged… — Elvis Mitchell Facts Copy Share Image
In Moulin Rouge, Baz Luhrmann takes the most thrilling moments in a movie musical-the seconds before the actors are about to burst… — Elvis Mitchell Actors Copy Share Image
The pleasantly crude 'Hall Pass' reminds us of what's been missing from movies: Those squirm-inducing moments in comedy that produce enough discomfort… — Elvis Mitchell Comedy Copy Share Image
My parents are from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and I feel like it's an old Southern thing where people say that, as a kid,… — Elvis Mitchell Astronaut Copy Share Image
The battle scenes in 'Gladiator' don't have the exultant lift of Hong Kong period-action pictures like the 'Once Upon a Time in… — Elvis Mitchell Battle Copy Share Image
If a movie requires the lead actor to spend a good chunk of his onscreen time talking to himself, and Popeye is… — Elvis Mitchell Actor Copy Share Image
It's so funny: whenever there's a new technology introduced, there's always this fear it's going to end entertainment as we know it.… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Justin Lin, the writer and director of the teenage-wasteland drama 'Better Luck Tomorrow,' a shrewdly tense piece of storytelling, recognizes that sometimes… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm honored to be asked by Stephanie Allain - whom I've long admired - to add to the scope of my programming… — Elvis Mitchell Film Copy Share Image
'8 Mile' could do without an unnecessary class swipe. In a final throwdown, Rabbit clowns a competitor by revealing that the guy… — Elvis Mitchell Class Copy Share Image
'Man is an endangered species,' announces one of the titles at the beginning of the sci-fi lump 'Battlefield Earth.' And after about… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
In 2013, when it turned out that the plot of LaBeouf's short film 'HowardCantour.com' (2012) had been purloined from graphic novelist Daniel… — Elvis Mitchell Comic Copy Share Image
A little of the sketch character Pootie Tang went a long way on HBO's now late, probably soon to be lamented 'Chris… — Elvis Mitchell Character Copy Share Image
I saw Berry in concert a couple of times in the late '70s - and like almost every North American male of… — Elvis Mitchell Age Copy Share Image
Natalie Portman's approach to acting demands that she wears her heart on her sleeve so explicitly, the heart becomes the whole garment… — Elvis Mitchell Acting Copy Share Image
Spending time with Mexican-born writer and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, you'd never guess that he's the filmmaker behind a series of movies… — Elvis Mitchell Cinema Copy Share Image
Though narrative cohesion isn't the strength of 'Mean Girls,' which works better from scene to scene than as a whole, the intelligence… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Mr. Miyazaki's specialty is taking a primal wish of kids, transporting them to a fantasyland, and then marooning them there. No one… — Elvis Mitchell Dreams Copy Share Image
One of the funniest things about Mr. Kaufman is that all of his filmed scripts - 'Being John Malkovich,' 'Human Nature,' 'Adaptation'… — Elvis Mitchell Cinema Copy Share Image
Miramax seems to be showing the same faith in Roberto Benigni's 'Pinocchio' that the Republican Party showed in Trent Lott; the live-action… — Elvis Mitchell Ambition Copy Share Image
Given how unflinching his productions have been, the 44-year-old McQueen is remarkably gentle and thoughtful - so much so that he will… — Elvis Mitchell Actor Copy Share Image
When an actor commits himself to a role as fully as Russell Crowe does in the grandiose and silly 'Gladiator,' you may… — Elvis Mitchell Actor Copy Share Image
His work isn't all glower. Even though he hasn't smiled in a movie since the underrated 'Proof' in the early 1990s, Mr.… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
