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)

  • Movies
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Shout Outs
  • 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.

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    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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