Revolution To Revelation: The John Demetry Archive Of Criticism (2000-2007)
"Shall I rewrite or revise / My October symphony? / Or as an indication / Change the dedication / From revolution to revelation?" -- "My October Symphony," Pet Shop Boys
The Archive:
From Revolution (June 17, 2002 - July 14, 2000)
To Revelation (Present - July 01, 2002)
About Me
- Name: John Demetry
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
I earned my BA in Communications Arts: Radio, Television, and Film from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2000. Since then, I have worked as a freelance film (and music) critic for such publications as CityArts, Cinedrama, First of The Month, and GayToday. Mostly, I struggle to find a home for my voice -- and a voice for my home. Mapping this quest, these works of criticism attest to the insights and passion I offer. They illustrate my: 1) Unique perspective - semiotics-charged, formalism-based, pleasure-bound; 2)Fundamental values - pop culture as a unifying force; 3) Erudition - as a film major in college (emphasis: history/theory/criticism) and as a life-long student of ideas and art. Along the journey, Go West: An American Experience, a video I co-directed with Amy Thompson, has played at numerous film festivals.
Revelation (Present - July 01, 2002)
- Ten Best Singles of 2007
- Ten Best Albums of 2007
- Ten Best Movies of 2007
- Rehab (Remix) (feat. Jay-Z) (Amy Winehouse)
- Runnin' Down a Dream: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (Peter Bogdanovich)
- I Could Fall In Love With You (Erasure)
- "Oh, Daddy" (Fleetwood Mac)
- High School Musical 2 (Kenny Ortega)
- Sanjaya Malakar and American Idol, Part 3
- Sanjaya Malakar and American Idol, Part 2
- Because I Said So (Michael Lehmann)
- Sanjaya Malakar and American Idol, Part 1
- Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls (Tyler Perry)
- Amazing Grace (Michael Apted)
- "Witch Shocktronica" (Yoko Ono & Hank Shocklee)
- "Read My Mind (Pet Shop Boys Stars Are Blazing Mix)" (The Killers & Pet Shop Boys)
- Jump In! (Paul Hoen)
- High School Musical (Kenny Ortega)
- Dreamgirls (Bill Condon)
- A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman)
- The Best Movies of 2006
- Apocalypto (Mel Gibson)
- Robert Altman / Alan Rudolph - Top 10's
- Bobby (Emilio Estevez)
- The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma)
- Crank (Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor)
- Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles (Zhang Yimou)
- Time To Leave (Francois Ozon)
- Rockford (Cheap Trick)
- Renny Harlan vs. Paul Schrader
- The Covenant (Renny Harlan)
- Snakes On A Plane (David R. Ellis)
- Notes on White Bread, Black Beer (Scritti Politti)
- World Trade Center (Oliver Stone)
- Movies 2006 (So Far)
- Letter To The Editor of New York Press: Armond White and Hype Williams
- Akeelah and the Bee, Part 2 (Doug Atchison)
- Notes on E.T. and Akeelah and the Bee
- Akeelah and the Bee, Part 1 (Doug Atchison)
- Gentleman's Agreement (Elia Kazan)
- How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)
- American Dreamz (Paul Weitz)
- Scary Movie 4 (David Zucker)
- Awesome; I F**king Shot That! (Adam Yauch)
- Neil Young: Heart of Gold (Jonathan Demme)
- Don't Come Knocking (Wim Wenders)
- L'enfant (The Dardenne Brothers)
- The Benchwarmers (Dennis Dugan)
- Ask The Dust (Robert Towne)
- She's The Man (Andrew Fickman)
- Eight Below (Frank Marshall)
- You Have Killed Me (Morrissey)
- Fundamental album cover (Farrow & Pet Shop Boys)
- Running Scared, Part 2 (Wayne Kramer)
- Here Come Those Dreams Again (Big Blue Hearts)
- On "A Tribute To Robert Altman" (Richard T. Jameson)
- Running Scared, Part 1 (Wayne Kramer)
- Sorry (Madonna & Pet Shop Boys)
- War Of The Worlds (Steven Spielberg)
- Final Destination 3 (James Wong)
- London (Hunter Richards)
- London tease (Hunter Richards)
- The Perfect Kiss (Jonathan Demme & New Order)
- The Pink Panther (Shawn Levy)
- Tamara (Jeremy Haft)
- "Lightning Strikes Twice" (Saint Etienne)
- Mo Gik: The Promise (Chen Kaige)
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson)
- The Matador (Richard Shepard)
- Breaking Bread With The Movie Club, Part 2 and Notes on Munich (Steven Spielberg)
- Breaking Bread With The Movie Club, Part 1
- Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
- Three Dancing Slaves (Le Clan) (Gael Morel)
- Gus Van Sant's Last Days (Gus Van Sant)
- "Just Can't Say Goodbye" (The Associates)
- Love And Anger (Kate Bush)
- Broken Hearts Club: Movies 2004
- Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
- Hero (Zhang Yimou)
- The Terminal (Steven Spielberg)
- You Are The Quarry, Part 2 (Morrissey)
- You Are The Quarry, Part 1 (Morrissey)
- Baadasssss! (Mario van Peebles)
- Irish Blood, English Heart (Morrissey)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
- The Ladykillers (The Coen Brothers)
- Son Frere (Patrice Chereau)
- The Passion of the Christ (Mel Gibson)
- Torque (Joseph Kahn)
- Toxic (Joseph Kahn)
- Cold Mountain (Anthony Minghella)
- Stuck On You (The Farrelly Brothers)
- Peter Pan (P.J. Hogan)
- Camp (Todd Graff)
- PopArt - The Hits (Pet Shop Boys)
- Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff)
- Cat In The Hat (Bo Welch)
- Intolerable Cruelty (The Coen Brothers)
- The Radio One Sessions Vol. 2 1984-1985 (The Associates)
- Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
- Warming by the Devil's Fire (Charles Burnett)
- Pop Matters: Music in the Era of AIDS
- In Praise Of Love (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Some Thoughts On Armond White And His Influence On My Writing
- Km. 0 - Kilometer Zero (Juan Luis Iborra & Yolanda Garcia Serrano)
- Open Range (Kevin Costner)
- The Good Thief (Neil Jordan)
- The Swimming Pool (Francois Ozon)
- Gigli (Martin Brest)
- Loveboat (Erasure)
- How To Deal (Clare Kilner)
- Model Shop (Jacques Demy)
- Love Reinvented (Omnibus Film)
- Our Town (James Naughton)
- "Flicker" (Electronic)
- The Lizzie McGuire Movie (Jim Fall)
- Confusion of Genders (Illan Duran Cohen)
- Querrelle (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- Disco 3 (Pet Shop Boys)
- Phone Booth (Joel Schumacher)
- Justified (Justin Timberlake)
- The Weight Of Water (Kathryn Bigelow)
- 8 Women (Francois Ozon)
- Other People's Songs (Erasure)
- Tommy (Ken Russell)
- All Or Nothing (Mike Leigh)
- Nicholas Nickleby (Douglas McGrath)
- The Hours (Stephen Daldry)
- Talk To Her (Pedro Almodovar)
- Adaptation (Spike Jonze)
- Max (Menno Mejyes)
- The Pianist (Roman Polanski)
- Terminal Bar (Stefan Nadelman)
- Everything Relative (Sharon Pollack)
- Siddhartha (Conrad Rooks)
- Marquis de Sade: Justine (Jesus "Jess" Franco)
- 200 KM/H In the Wrong Lane (t.A.T.u)
- About Schmidt (Alexander Payne)
- Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg)
- Treading Water (Lauren Himmel)
- The Best Movies of 2002: 'You Can Choose'
- Finisterre (Saint Etienne)
- Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori)
- Urbania (John Shear)
- Triumph of Love (Clare Peploe)
- Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)
- The Truth About Charlie (Jonathan Demme)
- The Professor's Daughter (Ben Kessler)
- Forbidden Relations (Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács)
- The Ring (Gore Verbinski)
- Auto Focus (Paul Schrader)
- Secretary (Steven Shainberg)
- The Lady and The Duke (Eric Rohmer)
- Brown Sugar (Rick Famuyiwa)
- Lawrence Of Arabia (David Lean)
- Undisputed (Walter Hill)
- 24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom)
- Reeling 2002: The 21st Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival
- Harvard Man (James Toback)
- The Importance Of Being Earnest (Anthony Asquith)
- Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
Revolution (June 17, 2002 - July 14, 2000)
- CQ (Roman Coppola)
- Circuit (Dirk Shafer)
- Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (George Lucas)
- Release (Pet Shop Boys)
- Spiderman (Sam Raimi)
- Oz: The First Season (Tom Fontana)
- The Sweetest Thing (Roger Kumble)
- High Crimes (Carl Franklin)
- Lola (Jacques Demy)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
- E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
- Borstal Boy (Peter Sheridan)
- Kandahar (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
- Queen Of The Damned (Michael Rymer)
- Storytelling (Todd Solondz)
- The Mothman Prophecies (Mark Pellington)
- The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
- Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
- Gosford Park (Robert Altman)
- Behind Enemy Lines (John Moore)
- The Adventures of Felix (Olivier Ducastel & Jacques Martineau)
- X 2000: The Collected Shorts of Francois Ozon (Francois Ozon)
- The Man Who Wasn't There (The Coen Brothers)
- Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
- Y tu mama tambien (Alfonso Cuaron)
- Intimacy (Patrice Chereau)
- Vertical Ray Of The Sun (Trân Anh Hûng)
- Orphans (Peter Mullan)
- L.I.E. (Michael Cuesta)
- All Over The Guy (Julie Davis)
- The Deep End (Tilda Swinton)
- Under The Sand (Francois Ozon)
- Planet Of The Apes (Tim Burton)
- The Road Home (Zhang Yimou)
- A.I. - Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
- Three Businessmen (Alex Cox)
- Death and the Compass (Alex Cox)
- Straight To Hell (Alex Cox)
- Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann)
- A Summer's Tale (Eric Rohmer)
- The Million Dollar Hotel (Wim Wenders)
- Beyond The Clouds (Michelangelo Antonioni)
- The Mystery Of Oberwald (Michelangelo Antonioni)
- Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
- 3000 Miles To Graceland (Demian Lichtenstein)
- Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
- In The Mood For Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
- Before Night Falls (Julian Schnabel)
- George Washington (David Gordon Green)
- Taboo (Nagisa Oshima)
- The House Of Mirth (Terence Davies)
- The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (Greg Berlaniti)
- The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)
- Dr. T & The Women (Robert Altman)
- Boys Life 3 (Omnibus Film)
- Queer As Folk (Russell T. Davies)
- Queer As Folk 2 (Russell T. Davies)
- Water Drops On Burning Rocks (Francois Ozon)
- 36th Chicago International Film Festival
- The Cell (Tarsem Singh)
- The Five Senses (Jeremy Podeswa)
- Cecil B. DeMented (John Waters)
- Hollow Man (Paul Verhoeven)
- Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (Peter Segal)
- Time Regained (Raul Ruiz)
- Trixie (Alan Rudolph)
- X-Men (Bryan Singer)
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