Cold Souls

Cold Souls: Existential Science-Fiction by PAUL CONSTANT If you're only reading the synopsis, it's easy to see why so many lazy critics have compared Cold Souls to Being John Malkovich: Paul Giamatti stars as an actor named Paul Giamatti, whose soul... Full review

If you're familiar with my movie reviews, you know I'm a tremendous admirer of Paul Giamatti - the man can do no wrong in my estimation; I think he's one of the finest actors of our generation and certainly one of... Full review

The high-concept premise of French writer-director Sophie Barthes's first feature, which is pleasing "second-tier Charlie Kaufman stuff" (Peter Rainer), is that the soul is not only a physical organ, but can be switched, by entering a chamber as for an MRI,... Full review

Cold Souls By Edward Havens The easiest, and laziest, way to describe the new movie "Cold Souls" is to compare it to "Being John Malkovich." Yes, both feature a well-respected film actor playing a character named and slightly modeled after them,... Full review

Often, attempts at satire or surrealism fall flat. The jokes are silly, or the situations not credible. But when they do work, they provide those unique gems of an experience that are hard to forget Such is the case for Cold... Full review

I read that director Sophie Barthes goes mad if she' s asked about the similarities between "Could Souls" and Kaufmann's "Synecdoche, New York". I see nothing mad about it. Both films are very similar in their "philosophical" approach and sometimes even... Full review

Just saw this at the Sydney Film Festival. From what I've already read, director Sophie Barthes was inspired to write this by a dream. She is also reportedly tired of comparisons to Kaufman's films. What does she expect? If you crossed... Full review

I saw this film today as part of FSLC and MoMA's New Directors / New Films Festival. The screening was followed by a Q&A with writer/director Sophie Barthes, who openly admitted to being annoyed by comparisons between her film and Charlie... Full review

After the Storm - An actor brings the play "Once on This Island" to New Orleans to teach it to youths after Hurricane Katrina in Hilla Medalia's 2009 documentary . ... Full Article

'Cold Souls' at the Burton: In "Cold Souls," Paul Giamatti plays an actor named Paul who enlists the services of a company that claims it's able to extract souls from the living. ... Full Article

In the tradition of Charlie Kaufman and Woody Allen comes writer-director Sophie Bathers' debut Cold Souls an existential comedy about an actor (Paul Giamatti, playing himself) who decides to unburdern himself by putting his soul into 'storage' -- with amusingly... ... Full Article

The other day, someone asked me if I'd seen John August's THE NINES. "Do you mean the animated one with the stitch puppets, or the Fellini remake?" asked I. ... Full Article

Paul Giamatti plays Paul Giamatti, currently rehearsing the lead role in Uncle Vanya for a new stage production and finding that his intense identification with the protagonist of this Russian masterpiece is causing him to be depressed. ... Full Article

Plot Struggling to get through rehearsals of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, actor Paul Giamatti (er, Paul Giamatti) worries about the weight the role is playing on his life and soul. ... Full Article