Here's an email from my friend Jon Patricof about the new movie his brother is one of the producers of, Half Nelson.  It looks like a great flick!  Below is the NY Times review of it.

Half Nelson, a new independent film starring Ryan Gosling, opens today in New York City.  I am writing to you in hopes that you will go see it.  I have a special connection to the film as my younger brother, Jamie Patricof, is one of the film's producers.  However, I have full confidence recommending it to you as not only the New York Times and Entertainment Weekly but virtually every major critic across the country has showered this film with praise.

 

So for those of you in New York City, I hope you will go see this film and for those of you around the country keep an eye out for it when it comes your way.

 

For more information or to buy tickets go to http://www.halfnelsonthefilm.com/

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New York Times

August 11, 2006

MOVIE REVIEW

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2006/08/11/movies/11half.html

In ‘Half Nelson,’ a Student Knows a Teacher’s Secret

By MANOHLA DARGIS

“Half Nelson” is that rarest of marvels — an American fiction film that wears its political heart on its sleeve. It’s a small film with a long view, and its story hinges on an unusually nuanced relationship between a white man and a black girl, each of whom has landed in harm’s way. The delicacy of its lead performances (more on them later) and its sense of everyday texture are each worthy of praise. But what makes “Half Nelson” both an unusual and an exceptional American film, particularly at a time when even films about Sept. 11 are professed to have no politics, is its insistence on political consciousness as a moral imperative...