Just in time for Valentine's Day, The Daily News has created, what they call, a list of NYC's 100 Most Romantic Movies. Movies that capture what it is like to "live and love here". One problem: the list needs to be edited. It appears they have just listed every movie they could think of that took place in New York and somehow involved love (or lust). For example: Coyote Ugly should not be on a......

DISCUSSION: Noam Chomsky will be taking questions on US foreign policy tonight, following a screening of Harold Pinter's 2005 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech. Get your questions ready, smartypants. You can watch the video of Pinter's speech here, too. 6pm // Columbia University, Miller Theater [Broadway @ 116th St] // $5 THEATER: Isabella Rossellini with be playing Lotte Lenya in a one-night only performance at the New-York Historical Society called Kurt and Lenya: Two Great Artists......

As everyone gets their bracket on and settles in for March Madness, the new Wes Anderson-directed Dasani commercials will start to air. Ernest Lupinacci, a partner in Anomaly, the upstart advertising agency that won the Dasani business from red cell/Berlin Cameron, spoke to the Observer about the ads that feature humans dressed up as animals:"The idea behind the spots was that if you found someone who only drank water, and if they drank this water,......

A Talk With Wes Anderson...

The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced the lineup for the New York Film Festival 2004, and it looks like NY will again benefit from being, arguably, the world's last major film festival by getting films that have played at other festivals by the time the NYFF starts October 1. Opening the festival will be Agnes Jaoui's Look At Me (premiered at Cannes); Pedro Almodovar's Bad Education (also at Cannes) is the centerpiece, as......

With the upcoming release of the Tom Hanks-Steven Spielberg collaboration, The Terminal, coming out soon, it was inevitable that local newspapers would try to take up the challenge of living in an airport, much like movie main character Viktor Navorski does at JFK. The NY Times has Andy Newman experience JFK for 24 hours, complete with slideshow of photos taken from his cameraphone, but the Post is more imaginative, sending reporter Philip Recchia to live......

One of Gothamist's favorite actors AND Park Slope residents, John Turturro, (who else can play Hispanic, Italian, Jewish, crazy, etc) will be appearing on the amusing USA Networks comedy, Monk. Turturro will play the brother of main character Adrian Monk, who is brilliantly played by Tony Shalhoub. The Post reports that the brother, Ambrose Monk, will be an agoraphobe, to Adrian's OCD detective. Gothamist doesn't know if it's making light of neuroses or the police......

Acting on a hot tip from Mindy, Gothamist went to check out former Devo musician-turned-composer for film and TV Mark Mothersbaugh's newest venture at the Fuse Gallery/Lit Lounge on Second Avenue and East 5th Street. Mothersbaugh's pieces, "Homefront Invasion," can be seen in the Fuse Gallery, and quite a few are available for sale. In fact, Gothamist's friend was so taken with one piece (at right) that he decided to buy it. Gothamist wonders if......

Movies at Alice Tully Hall Alice Tully Hall is where many New York Film Festival films are screened, and for the first year, where New Directors/New Films is taking place. My fondness of Alice Tully Hall also stems from the fact that by now, I know the optimal seats for movie viewing as well as talk participation....

I'm pretty much over Jimmy Fallon, like many others. He's funny, but not funnier than, say, Rachel Dratch. He's been riding the cute coattails a little too long in my book. Anyway, it doesn't mean I didn't know he was dating Tara Subkoff, sometime actress, designer of Imitation of Christ which is "Original of Crap" in my book. So I was intrigued when the Observer implied she's dating Wes Anderson(second item) and dissing Jimmy. Then......