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about: Regina Weinreich

Category: Film

  • The Cove’s Killing Field

    If you are old enough to remember the tv show Flipper, featuring a dolphin jumping high out of the water and sporting a shit-eating grin, you will be amazed at the documentary, The Cove, which tells the story of how the show's host, Richard O'Barry after years of buying new Porsches on his earnings, turned…

  • Richard P. Rogers and Harold Norse Remembered

    If you had asked documentary filmmaker, Harvard professor Richard P. Rogers what he was working on in the 1980's or '90's, he would have told you, a movie about the place where he grew up, Wainscott. When he died of cancer in July 2001, that decades-old project remained in an attic in numerous boxes marked…

  • NYWIFT Honors Designing Women

    NYWIFT's annual Designing Women event to honoring behind the scenes artists in makeup, hair, and costumes for film and television is traditionally warm, informative, with a lot of laughs. This year, John Turturro, proclaiming himself a woman in film trapped in a man's body, presented an award to his Yale Drama School classmate, Donna Zakowski,…

  • Woody and Larry: Whatever Works

    The creative collaboration of those two whiny masters of comedy, Woody Allen and Larry David, seems like a no-brainer.  So it was a surprise to learn at the press conference for Allen’s new film “Whatever Works,” in which David stars as the Woody surrogate, that he had originally written this comedy with the late Zero Mostel…

  • Eric Schlosser’s Naked Lunch: Food, Inc.

    You are what you eat, is the simple way to say it. The writer William S. Burroughs called his iconic examination of literally what is at the end of your fork “the naked lunch.” As a student of anthropology, Burroughs was referring to addiction as an aspect of science, as in the human organism's need…

  • Youssou Ndour’s Grandmother

    Senegalese singer Youssou Ndour, a Sufi Muslim with a soulful sound has a secret weapon beyond the spirit of Allah: his grandmother who died shortly after being filmed in the documentary “I Bring What I Love,” opening this Friday. Introduced at the Paris Theater last week, at a special screening hosted by Mike Nichols, Ndour said he…

  • Nurse Jackie on Showtime/ Smile Pinki on HBO

    If you ever find yourself in a hospital emergency room, will you want Nurse Jackie tending to your wounds? Showtime's new series starring the intelligent, non-Carmela Soprano coiffed  Edie Falco gives you enough behind the scenes black humor in the form of snappy dialogue and sight gags to make anyone think twice about being in…

  • Colin Firth in Easy Virtue

    “Anyone who has married anyone knows you are going into a rival tribe,” laughed Colin Firth, explaining the theme of his new movie “Easy Virtue.” The handsome father-in-law in the venomous Whittaker clan in directorStephan Elliott’s remake of the 1924 Noel Coward play is married to a bitchy and funny Kristen Scott Thomaswho was directed to play her…

  • PEN World Voices/ Daphne’s Depression

    What an international mecca New York was last week, with Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda arriving for the premiere of “Still Walking,” for example, or the Irish playwright Conor McPherson in town-(his play “the Seafarer was all the rage on Broadway last season)– showing “The Eclipse,” both films part of the Tribeca Film Festival. Dovetailing with…