David Perry

David Perry

""We can't censor our entire lives because a psychopath goes nuts. People do bad things and you can't always just blame the movies." -- Roger Ebert, upon guest critic Jane Horwitz' request that Columbia Pictures should have shelved Idle Hands due to the violence in Colorado. "It's subtitled. It leaves out all the stupid people. That's how I see it. Of course, it makes it very difficult to make the money and get distribution. But to be a little arrogant, it's very hard in Europe to ignore the fact that North Americans are too stupid to read subtitles." -- Thomas Vinterberg discussing his film The Celebration. "It was impossible not to see that the love scenes were filmed like murder scenes, and the murder scenes like love scenes...It occurred to me that in Hitchcock's cinema...to make love and to die are one and the same." -- Fellow film director François Truffaut on what made Alfred Hitchcock so unique. "Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot." -- Charlie Chaplin. "Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing." -- Robert Bresson. "There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it." -- Alfred Hitchcock."

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Biography:
David Perry has been a film critic for various short lived magazines (such as America's Utterance Magazine and Britain's Oxygen) and now toiling away at The Village Voice (as David Blaylock) while doing his best to keep his old film review website (Cinema-Scene.com) alive.
Favorites:
A complete listing of top ten lists for years, decades, and century available on the website.
Publications:
Cinema-Scene.com
Total Reviews:
1199
Location:
New York, NY

Listing Of All Reviews & Articles

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2/4 51% Last Night (2011) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Apr 25, 2011
3.5/4 74% Sunshine (2007) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jul 27, 2007
3/4 70% Father and Son (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Feb 12, 2007
2.5/4 73% Together (He ni zai yi qi) (2003) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Oct 13, 2006
3.5/4 87% Zatôichi (The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi) (2003) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 7, 2006
2/4 49% The Passion of the Christ (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
2/4 29% The Prince and Me (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
3/4 55% The Ladykillers (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
2/4 62% Young Adam (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
2/4 76% Bon Voyage (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
3/4 94% The Story of the Weeping Camel (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
0.5/4 36% Neil Young - Greendale (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
3/4 74% Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
2/4 19% She Hate Me (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
1/4 48% A Home at the End of the World (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
2/4 36% Touch of Pink (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
3/4 100% Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election (2002) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
2/4 33% The Intended (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
4/4 88% The Five Obstructions (2003) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
2/4 48% De-Lovely (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
2/4 44% 50 First Dates (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
3/4 86% Intimate Strangers (Confidences trop intimes) (2003) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
2/4 73% Zelary (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
2.5/4 92% Vera Drake (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
2/4 90% Mean Creek (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
2/4 64% Coffee and Cigarettes (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
3/4 86% Garden State (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
1/4 29% The Punisher (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
2/4 41% Zhou Yu's Train (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
3.5/4 90% Last Life in the Universe (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
3.5/4 76% A Talking Picture (Um Filme Falado) (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
2/4 27% The Stepford Wives (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
2/4 80% Slasher (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
3/4 83% Mean Girls (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
2/4 73% Stander (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
1/4 29% The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
2/4 77% Uncovered: The War on Iraq (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
2/4 46% Hidalgo (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
3/4 86% Collateral (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
3/4 93% Super Size Me (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
2/4 61% Saved! (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
3/4 43% Twentynine Palms (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
2/4 75% Dawn of the Dead (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
2/4 48% Silver City (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
4/4 84% Kill Bill, Volume 2 (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
3/4 88% Metallica - Some Kind of Monster (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
1.5/4 17% The Perfect Score (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
3/4 64% Spartan (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
2/4 43% The Brown Bunny (2004) Cinema-Scene.com
Posted Jan 4, 2006
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