Screening Gotham: When the Ghetto Came to Chelsea

David Russell and Harvey Weinstein at Monday night's Ghetto Film School benefit (Photo: Variety)

Some of today's movie news of note from around New York:

--While The Reeler was encamped in Tribeca Monday night deconstructing German Oscar winners and waiting in vain for Faye Dunaway, Variety's Ian Mohr hit the ghetto. Or the Ghetto Film School benefit, rather, held this year in Chelsea and hosting the likes of Harvey Weinstein, David O. Russell, Mira Nair and that most ghetto of all ghetto MC's, Elvis Mitchell. Not a whole lot more to say about this one, except that if anyone wants to actually visit the Bronx institution, it's about six miles northeast of Chelsea, convenient to the 6 train. Or just ask your driver, he'll know.

--Lionsgate is a studio built on shit, and at least as far as Wall Street is concerned, the foundation is a little softer this morning. By the same token, those are some short, short memories; there's not a single mention of Crash in Georg Szalai's entire survey.

--On the way to the bank, Tom Wolfe expresses bemusement (and a woeful ignorance of contemporary visual effects) at Gus Van Sant's recently announced adaptation of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

--Gosh, Laura Linney really does look different.

Posted at June 14, 2007 7:15 AM