David Ehrlich

A FILM WORTH LEAVING THE ATTIC FOR

Cinematic allegories and reflections upon contemporary American society have generally come in the guise of science fiction or subversive animation.

By David Ehrlich | Feb 12 12:00 am ET

Chairlift Ascends Pop Music Heights

Chairlift-appropriately named-is a band on the rise.

By David Ehrlich | Nov 29 12:00 am ET

Silence Would Be Better Than This

Box office figures notwithstanding, by its second week of release Silent Hill may find itself to be the most reviled American film since Gigli.

By David Ehrlich | Apr 28 12:00 am ET

Scream: Great Movie or Greatest Movie?

When Adolf Eichmann stood trial for crimes against humanity in Israel, someone suggested that the most fitting form of retribution would be to lock the former Nazi in a cell and slowly drain the ro

By David Ehrlich | Apr 14 12:00 am ET

When Too Soon Lasts Too Long

As I watched Jesus turn every cheek he had in the Passion of the Christ: How to Stop Narrative Momentum and Start Loving the Whip, one phrase dominated my thoughts-"Too soon." I mean, the man has b

By David Ehrlich | Mar 31 12:00 am ET

And the Oscar Goes to... Fascism!

Vlad is exceptionally intelligent, but he may not be aware that Asian men have testicles. Vlad is 23 years old, and I'd be surprised if he knew that Latinos even existed.

By David Ehrlich | Mar 3 12:00 am ET

Elderly German May Be Messiah

I may be an agnostic, but I've long harbored suspicions that German filmmaker Werner Herzog is a divine being of some sort.

By David Ehrlich | Feb 17 12:00 am ET

London Rains Idiocy

Hunter Richards' directorial debut, London, is the most obnoxious sort of indie filmmaking, the kind that suffocates its obvious potential under dense layers of smarmy and unwarranted self

By David Ehrlich | Feb 10 12:00 am ET

Lorelai Gilmore Slept With Bogart?

I'm in love. Unfortunately, as with most of the girls with whom I'm infatuated, she's either fictional or Audrey Hepburn (I'm not gay; I just know life-altering beauty when I see it).

By David Ehrlich | Feb 3 12:00 am ET

Eisenhower Predicts the Apocalypse

With the release of his latest documentary, Why We Fight, filmmaker Eugene Jarecki has effectively become a more vital man than George W. Bush.

By David Ehrlich | Jan 27 12:00 am ET

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