Email Author Jim Ridley

Awards

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 24, 2005

  "Blown Opportunity"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 19, 2005

  "Lost in the Stars"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 1, 2005

  "Pulling Punch Lines"

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2008 Stories by Jim Ridley

• Critical Mass: The best movies of 2008

  published December 24, 2008

  Is it a sign of the apocalypse? Something in the water? Or is it just the way the wind is blowing? Whatever the case, when our... More >>

• The Sound of One Audience Member Clapping: Resourceful indie filmmakers are finding new ways of getting their movies into theaters. But will anybody come?

  published December 24, 2008

  Michael Jacobs, a filmmaker based in San Francisco, is the director of a movie called Audience of One. It's a documentary about a... More >>

• Towering Cinema: Philippe Petit's World Trade Center tightrope walk was made for the movies

  published September 3, 2008

  Even as the first girders were laid in the mid-1960s, something about the World Trade Center — that twin-pronged erection jutting from... More >>

• Violence is Golden: With its secret boys' club and bloody good fun, Wanted has all of the fight with none of the guilt

  published June 25, 2008

  Of the summer's many revenge-of-the-nerd fulfillment fantasies — from The Incredible Hulk all the way down the megaplex food chain... More >>

• Michael Haneke and his brutal home invaders return to implicate you in Funny Games

  published March 12, 2008

  For the crime of obliterating high culture, for the crime of getting off on vicarious degradation — and, above all, for the crime of sitting... More >>

• Chafing Dishes: No Reservations now available on DVD

  published February 13, 2008

  No Reservations(Warner Bros.)From its cheap, mid-'90s-looking package to its woefully scant extras (one pre-chewed... More >>

• Donkey Punch

  published January 30, 2008

  The King of Kong (New Line) Seth Gordon's best-of-2007 documentary about the battle for Donkey Kong supremacy remains a... More >>

• Lock up the Kids

  published January 9, 2008

  Having a child destroys your immunity to horror, real or imagined. Before the blessed event, you could laugh off The Exorcist, The... More >>