| Storytelling Review |
| by Dennis Schwartz (Rating: C+) |
| ELLING (director: Petter Næss; screenwriters: from the novel by Ingvar
Ambjørnsen/Axel Hellstenius; cinematographer: Svein Krøvel; editor: Inge-Lise
Langfeldt; music: Lars Lillo-Stenberg; cast: Per Christian Ellefsen (Elling),
Sven Nordin (Kjell Bjarne),...more |
| Storytelling Review |
| by Shannon Patrick Sullivan (Rating: 2.5/4) |
| Directed by Todd Solondz, from his screenplay. Starring Selma Blair, Paul
Giamatti, John Goodman. Running time: 87 minutes. Rated AA for offensive
language and nude scenes by the MFCB. Reviewed on October 5th, 2002. more |
| Storytelling Review |
| by Jerry Saravia (Rating: 3/4) |
| Uneasiness is the core of all Todd Solondz's work. "Welcome to the Dollhouse"
was the uneasy tale of a young girl coming to terms with school, sex, and
jealousy in her adolescent years. "Happiness" was the provocative, uneasy epic
of sex and...more |
| Storytelling Review |
| by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 2/4) |
| Stop me if you've heard this one before. Two middle age guys, one a neatnik and
one a slob, who seem constitutionally incapable of ever getting along, have to
share an apartment. more |
| Storytelling Review |
| by Jon Popick (Rating: 8/10) |
| Imagine Of Mice and Men if George and Lenny were both boobs, The Odd Couple
if Felix and Oscar were Norwegian, or Dumb and Dumber without the
scatological humor, and you'll most likely conjure up Elling, one of the
overlooked nominees for Best Foreign...more |
| Storytelling Review |
| by Dennis Schwartz (Rating: B) |
| STORYTELLING (director/writer: Todd Solondz; cinematographer: Frederick Elmes;
editor: Alan Oxman; music: Belle & Sebastian/Nathan Larson; cast: Selma Blair
(Vi), John Goodman (Marty Livingston), Julie Hagerty (Fern Livingston), Leo
Fitzpatrick...more |
| Storytelling Review |
| by JoBlo (Rating: 7/10) |
| PLOT:
There are two separate stories in this movie. The first one is called "Fiction"
featuring a female college student who stops dating a classmate with cerebral
palsy and ends up in a one-nighter with her black schoolteacher. The second is
called...more |
| Storytelling Review |
| by Rose 'Bams' Cooper |
| STORYTELLING (2001)
Rated R; running time 87 minutes
Studios: Fine Line Features
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Seen at: Lowes 19th Street East 6 (New York, New York)
Official site: http://www.storytellingmovie.com/
IMDB site:...more |
| Storytelling Review |
| by Michael B. Scrutchin (Rating: B+) |
| --------------------
Year Released: 2002
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Todd Solondz
Writer: Todd Solondz
Cast: Selma Blair, Leo Fitzpatrick, Robert Wisdom, Paul Giamatti, Mark
Webber, John Goodman, Julie Hagerty, Lupe Ontiveros, Noah Fleiss, Jonathan...more |
| Storytelling Review |
| by Robin Clifford (Rating: D+) |
| Director/writer Todd Solodnz made a name for himself with the subversive
coming-of-age film "Welcome to the Doll House." Then, he put a sympathetic
face on parental pedophilia in "Happiness." Now, he analyzes the gray area
that lives between fiction and...more |
| Storytelling Review |
| by Laura Clifford (Rating: D+) |
| 'Fiction' recounts the tale of a college writing class led by a
manipulatively cruel Pulitzer Prize winning author while 'Non-Fiction'
showcases the attempts of an amateur documentarian to follow a student
through the college application process with an...more |
| Storytelling Review |
| by Jon Popick (Rating: 9/10) |
| After briefly foraying into the extremely messed-up world of adults in the
exquisite Happiness, writer-director Todd Solondz returns to the fertile
ground of teen angst that netted him international acclaim with Welcome To
the Dollhouse. Storytelling,...more |
| Storytelling Review |
| by Norm Schrager (Rating: 4/5) |
| STORYTELLING
A film review by Norm Schrager
Copyright 2002 filmcritic.com
Writer-director Todd Solondz has a knack for making us feel downright
uncomfortable. He did it in his twisted debut, Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995),
with a young Brendan...more |
| Storytelling Review |
| by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 2.5/4) |
| "When you look at a film by Todd Solondz, you know that only he could make it,"
STORYTELLING's producer Ted Hope says quite accurately in the film's press
notes. Comprised of two independent stories, the movie pushes the envelope in
the ways that...more |
| Storytelling Review |
| by Harvey S. Karten |
| Reviewed by Harvey Karten
Fine Line Features/ Killer Films/ Good Machine
Director: Todd Solondz
Writer: Todd Solondz
Cast: Selma Blair, Paul Giamatti, Mark Webber, Robert Wisdom.
Leo Fitzpatrick, John Goodman, Julie Hagerty, Lupe Ontiveros,
Jonathan...more |
