The New York Times Review calls "The Great New Wonderful", the first great film about 9/11. The review is so spot-on accurate that its criminal.The best part about GNW is that it doesn't hit the 9/11 aftermath head on, but derives its humor and situation from a series of parallel stories (much like Crash, only not). Sharat Saxena and Naseeruddin Shah have two great roles as security guards from Queens, and Naseeruddin stands out. Stephen Colbert has a funny lil cameo as a school principal. This film debuted at Tribeca, and got rave and well-deserved reviews. In the city, its been resorted to 4 shows at a Clearview in the Meatpacking District, but gets a great crowd of Tischies, Tisch-Hopefuls and the omnipresent Tisch-Wannabes (For the unitiated, Tisch being the esoteric and uber-competitive Film School of New York University, which features a who's-who list of celeb-graduates including Oliver Stone, Spike Lee, Ang Lee, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and our very own, M. Night Shyamalan, who is currently into wet women (how wrong can i be?).
But you know the interesting part? After drooling over GNW, its difficult to associate its director Danny Leiner, in any shape or form, with his two former pieces of work - namely "Dude Where's My Car" and "Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle". Talk about a paradigm shift, homey!
In other news, kiss the mistletoe, hang the girl.
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