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- An intoxicated couple in their home filmed during an emergency call. The duo, David Campbell and Kevin Edell who made the tape when they covered Coney Island, also made fun of different neighborhoods (they called it the "armpit" of Brooklyn) and the FDNY.

, Jake Kasdan's movie about the Los Angeles pilot season also currently in theaters. That character, Lenny, also puts people off with her blunt, anti-social straight talk, though she's a highly paid businesswoman so it's slightly more acceptable behavior than autistic Linda's. Thanks to Weaver, both of these provocative women are worth a watch. It may have been a few years since Weaver's string of Oscar nominations, but with these intriguing performances in small independent movies, she's definitely back on the radar.

Nothing distracts from this sub-freezing weather like a good flick. Here's a few options out this weekend in New York Theaters. Ryan Phillippe works hard to figure out Chris Cooper's espionage secrets in the new thriller the super human, flammable commuter.

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. She had this to say on Friday in her column (after offering the caveat that she's not a film critic): "It's lousy. Slow-moving and formulaic....New Yorkers infuse such pain and emotion into 9/11 that, for now, absolutely nothing could project onto a screen what still rips at our entrails. I hoped to speak about this with Oliver, who has always seemed a brilliant moviemaker, but his handlers are moving him around with a tweezer. Must be, like on that actual day itself, they, too, can smell death." Ouch!

Newsweek devotes its cover to Oliver Stone's World Trade Center (star Nicolas Cage is on the cover, though, not Ollie), and there's a big, positive feature about the film. Time, which has a stem cell cover story, gives World Trade Center a positive review. What's interesting is how a lot of coverage notes that Oliver Stone seems to have kept his politics in check and, in turn, created a good film. Now, with positive sentiments from the right also pouring in, could World Trade Center be the feel good movie of an important election year?

- All the dialogue seems stilted and hokey - again, maybe not an issue with the movie itself, but in the trailer, it's like a lead weightMaybe the trailer will play well in parts not near NYC, but it really seems to trivialize what happened, to assign emotions to an event many people already have very strong emotions about. When Gothamist thinks about September 11, we don't have a sweeping soundtrack telling us to cry playing. We hope there's more naturalistic use of sound in the movie, because the trailer is telling us in big letters not to see it. Luckily, at the very end of the trailer, there is something that looks good: A cool shot of Cage and Pena under the rubble, and the camera pans up. Well, Paramount will have until August 11 to release another trailer.

The fifth annual Tribeca Film Festival will open on a somber note, with the first movie about September 11, Flight 93, as the opening night selection. The movie is about the flight from Newark that was hijacked with intentions to crash it into DC, but passengers overtook the terrorists and forced the plane to crash in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania instead. It's a little eerie to imagine seeing this film during an event created to boost the downtown economy after September 11, but that will probably make it more poignant and powerful (we have faith in director Paul Greengrass, who did an amazing job with Bloody Sunday about a clash between the Irish and British in 1972). Gothamist hopes there will be a panel or two about the film during the festival as well - it would be fascinating to hear what the films' cast and crew as well as festival organizers think about it.

Call it sensitivity or call it fear: Olive Stone's much talked about September 11 movie, based on the rescue of two Port Authority officers, is shooting only a few scenes in New York, with most of the filming on Hollywood soundstages. The movie is based only on the accounts of Sergeant John McCouglin (to be played by Nicolas Cage -yes, that's why he's been sporting the 'stache) and Officer William Jimeno (played by Michael Pena), who were trapped under World Trade Center debris for 22 hours. Producer Michael Shamberg says, "We're not doing the `Towering Inferno-Titanic' version...we just felt after discussing it that frankly, it's easier to do it in Los Angeles." Yeah, like the September 11 miniseries was easier to film in Toronto. But the film is shooting until mid-November, with a tentative release date of August 11, just in time for the fifth anniversary. Director Paul Greengrass's film about Flight 93 (titled Flight 93), the flight that crashed in Pennsylvannia, may be released before the Stone movie, which means it'll be the summer of 9/11 - just in time for the midterm elections.

Recent production sightings here in Gotham (reg required for full size pics) have drummed up a renewed buzz about the upcoming film, The Weather Man. Directed by Gore Verbinski, the film stars Nicolas Cage and Michael Caine. Cage plays a divorced Chicago weatherman who is offered a job on a network morning show in New York. Before leaving he attempts to make peace with his ex-wife and kids. The movie is described as being in the vein of "American Beauty" and "About Schmidt". Having recently wrapped up filming in Chicago, the production has moved to the right, into Manhattan.

Liberals can stop complaining about the conservative slant Fox News takes: The FoxNews.com homepage makes our Commander-in-Chief look even more foolish than anyone could hope. Sure, it might happen (when we find the billions of dollars that must be in a treasure chest somewhere in the Rose Garden; hey, is the map to the treasure what Cheney has in his secret folder), but for now, we'll be disbelievers because we're afraid of the deathmatch between us and the Martians.

The other Sam in Gothamist's life, Sam T, just posted a day-by-day description of his trip to New Orleans on his site, Samology.

Oscar Commentary
Oscar is celebrating its 75th anniversary, I'm celebrating my 25th anniversary of watching Oscar.

Laurel Canyon, with Lou Barlow and Folk Implosion making up the band behind Alessandro Nivola's lead singer character.

The evening is over, while Gothamist will be following up with extensive commentary about the actual Oscar telecast, here are the winners and some post-game analysis: