Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'joanallen'
January 15, 2008
FOOD: Trestle on Tenth, the “homey joins hearty” Swiss-inflected restaurant that takes its name from its proximity to the High Line and the avenue where it’s found, kicks off a special five-night series called “metzgete.” The Swiss tradition loosely translates to “butchers affair” and arises from the practice of salvaging every scrap of pig after the winter slaughter – “especially those parts that would or could not be dried, smoked or pickled for later consumption.”......
Continue Reading "Pencil This In"August 2, 2007
The Bourne Ultimatum (directed by Paul Greengrass) Matt Damon's super assassin with a grudge Jason Bourne is back in a top-notch third installment of the action-packed movies based on Robert Ludlum's novels. It's not often that a trilogy of movies gets progressively better with each film, but that has been the case with the Bourne movies. When last we left Jason, the amnesia victim who has discovered he's actually a CIA spook, he'd just apologized......
Continue Reading "The Cinecultist's Weekly Movie Pick: Bourne To Run Edition"July 23, 2004
If totally terrible mid-summer weather necessitates a weekend spent indoors, might Gothamist suggest catching a screening of the newly released popcorn flick, the Bourne Supremacy? Filled with a cast of unexpected gems (Brian Cox, Joan Allen, Franka Potente), these non-action flick actors do what they should do since they can't kick ass fifteen different ways, they act. Matt Damon, reprising his role as the CIA operative who can't remember what he's done, has less lines......
Continue Reading "Because See, He's Born That's Why He's Bourne"
