Hennessy, Jill Movie Reviews Related Subjects: Family Movie Review
More Pages: Hennessy, Jill Page 1 Family movie reviews for "Hennessy, Jill" sorted by average review score: Two Ninas Released in DVD by Avalanche Video (31 July, 2001) MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Director: Neil Turitz Starring: Ron Livingston and Amanda Peet Average review score: Row Your Boat Released in DVD by York Home Video (19 June, 2001) MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated) Director: Sollace Mitchell Taking its title from a children's song and its story of crime and redemption from countless American indie dramas, Row Your Boat Sean Axmaker Average review score: I Shot Andy Warhol Released in DVD by Mgm/Ua Studios (23 January, 2001) MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Director: Mary Harron Starring: Lili Taylor Mary Harron's featurewhich picked up a Special Jury Award at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival for lead actress and independent film mainstay Lili Tayloris a highly suspect mishmash of golly-gee counterculture reconstruction and inflammatory agitprop. Harron re-creates the ultimately violent relationship of motor-mouth street freak writer-prostitute-lesbian-gun-wielding assailant Valerie Solanas (Taylor) and pop artist Andy Warhol (Jared Harris) in the late 1960s, which ended in Solanas's assault on Warhol for his charmingly noncommittal responses to her search for a patron. It's a great idea for a film, but I Shot Andy Warhol is truly at odds with itself. Harron's modular construction of the storypart naive reenactment of the instant-celebrity life at Warhol's studio, part celebration of Solanas's subversive ramblings, part investigation into the roots of her hyper-victimization at, apparently, the hands of all menis ultimately a shell game that allows the writer-director to avoid taking a clear stand on Solanas's bizarro politics. The cast is the only draw here: besides indie-film queen Taylor, Jared Harris makes for a convincingly cagey Warhol. | |
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