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The Omen
Film Review  June 9, 2006
Description: Julia Stiles is miscast, although Mia Farrow delights in this unnecessary remake of a perfectly good child-as-Antichrist movie.

"...Directed by: John Moore. Starring: Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Mia Farrow, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Michael Gambon and Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick..."

The Astronaut's Wife
Film Review  September 3, 1999
Description: You have to wonder if the appearance here of Samantha Eggar is a coincidence. In David Cronenberg's 1979 film The Brood, she tackled a similar motif, that of the genre-specific...

"...Depp has his trademark intensity throttled all the way up here, but it's for naught. Theron, for her part, looks like a Polanski-era Mia Farrow, exhibiting all of the coif and none of the charm..."

Miami Rhapsody
Film Review  March 3, 1995
Description: Miami Rhapsody's aspirations are clear. It longs to be a Gershwin Manhattan. Easy-listening rum & Coke is more like what it achieves. Even if Mia Farrow weren't cast in one...

"...Directed by: David Frankel. Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Antonio Banderas, Gil Bellows, Mia Farrow, Carla Gugino, Paul Mazursky and Kevin Pollak..."

Be Kind Rewind
Film Review  February 29, 2008
Description: Michel Gondry's latest mind warp, which stars Jack Black and Mos Def, is long on vision and heart but short on narrative coherence.

"...Directed by: Michel Gondry. Starring: Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow and Melonie Diaz..."

Joshua
Film Review  July 13, 2007
Description: The privileged nuclear family becomes a hellish dystopia as a result of a 9-year-old child's subtle, nuanced, unspoken manipulations.

"...There are moments in Joshua that recall, in their spare, sublime paranoiac vision of parenthood, another archetypal cinematic bad seed: no, not Damien of The Omen, but Rosemary Woodhouse's newborn, Adrian, later to become the father of lies, flies, and so on in Rosemary's Baby. Texas-born filmmaker Ratliff, working from a script co-written with David Gilbert, mines a tonally similar vision of the nuclear family as hellish dystopia, and despite the lack of Mia Farrow's crucified-puppy eyes (or anything as freakishly apropos as her third-act Vidal Sassoon hairdo), Joshua succeeds on its own terms, supernatural or not..."

The Ex
Film Review  May 18, 2007
Description: Zach Braff and Amanda Peet play husband and wife who deal with a new child and an old flame in this featherweight comedy that never steps outside its comfort zone.

"...Directed by: Jesse Peretz. Starring: Zach Braff, Amanda Peet, Jason Bateman, Charles Grodin, Mia Farrow, Donal Logue, Lucian Maisel and Amy Adams..."

DVD Watch
Screens Review  February 16, 2007
Description: Taking a look at recent releases, from Johan van der Keuken to the St. Louis Cardinals

"...The Last Unicorn: 25th Anniversary Edition (Lions Gate, $19.98): The voice talents of Mia Farrow, Jeff Bridges, and Angela Lansbury come together to tell us to be ourselves. Songs by America..."

Point Austin: What Molly Wrote
News Column  February 9, 2007
Description: Ivins and her kind

"...That profile is included in her 2004 volume Who Let the Dogs In? Among the many striking portraits of politicians included therein is one of my favorites: a thorough dismemberment of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. She recounts Gingrich saying in 1992 that Woody Allen's affair with Mia Farrow's daughter "fits the Democratic Party platform perfectly." To which Molly responds, "The Democratic Party has never recommended screwing your lover's adopted daughter." In such moments, one realizes that Molly went beyond "speaking truth to power." She came to specialize in speaking truth to idiocy...."

Arthur and the Invisibles
Film Review  January 19, 2007
Description: Live-action/animation hybrid from Luc Besson features a host of hip vocal talent but little more.

"...Directed by: Luc Besson. Starring: Freddie Highmore and Mia Farrow..."

After a Fashion
Columns  June 10, 2005
Description: Are you languishing in one of 'The Stages of Self-Acceptance for Gay Men'? Let Uncle Stephen guide you through.

"...WESTWARD HO: It's just not summer until Project Transitions has its annual Texas Swing fundraiser – and what a sizzler it was (it was so hot I found myself thanking the spirits above that I've chosen a Mia Farrow circa 1968 haircut, or I would have looked like I'd been "rode hard and put up wet"). But, heat be damned, Scholz Garten was packed! The seductive scent of barbecue permeated the night, while the music of the legendary Alvin Crow set the pace..."

TV Eye
Screens Column  November 19, 2004
Description: If it's November, it must be Christmas

"...Samantha: An American Girl Holiday: The WB network delves into the made-for-TV business with this new holiday movie featuring a character from the American Girl collection of books, dolls, and accessories. AnnaSophia Robb stars as 9-year-old Samantha Parkington, an orphan raised by her wealthy grandmother (Mia Farrow) in 1904 upstate New York..."

Birth
Film Review  October 29, 2004
Description: If your dead husband returned to you in the body of a 10-year-old boy, would you seize the opportunity for your romance to be born again or would you call Child Welfare?

"...So much of Birth occurs in quiet or near-silence that the impact of the movie is conveyed through the heroine’s expressions. Kidman’s face (framed by the cropped hairdo that’s pointedly reminiscent of Mia Farrow in that other New York-set supernatural tale Rosemary’s Baby) registers a remarkable range of emotions, often within the confines of a single take (best seen in the film’s several-minutes-long opera sequence)..."

Matter Over Mind
News Story  September 21, 2001
Description: The proposed Cypress Realty Development in Dripping Springs

"...The concept crystallized in 1980, with the formation of the Ideal Village Development Cooperative of Austin, a governing board of sorts that integrated a business plan and some real estate savvy with the teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the spiritual leader whose name became a household word in 1968, when he introduced the Beatles and Mia Farrow -- and the rest of the world, for that matter -- to the wonders of Transcendental Meditation. Mindful of the Maharishi's vision of creating "ideal villages" around the globe, DevCo, as the cooperative called itself, raised funds through personal contributions and others committed to the project..."

Instant Classic
Screens Story  May 19, 2000

"...The story itself is about a recently divorced writer named Isaac (Allen), trying to balance his relationships with a successful, cynical woman (Keaton) and a youthful beauty full of promise (Hemingway). These days, the film is also eerie in the way it foreshadows Allen's Soon-Yi/Mia Farrow debacle of the mid-Nineties..."

After a Fashion
Columns  February 4, 2000
Description: Outré at the Golden Globes.

"...Julia Roberts paired it with a very bare red silk-crepe from Calvin Klein, and she apparently has seen the error of her folly of last summer in which she showed up at the Notting Hill premiere with her underarms au naturel... Pants were worn by Gwyneth Paltrow, Mia Farrow, Cameron Diaz, Annette Bening, and Lara Flynn Boyle, who also wore a sequined Bob Seger concert T-shirt....."

Play It Again, Sam
Screens Story  June 3, 1999

"...D: Roman Polanski; with Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sydney Blackmer, Charles Grodin...."

Further Reflections
Screens Story  March 25, 1999

"...Her mother is hardly better off than she is, but has appointed herself as May's guardian angel in a sick variant of the mother-daughter relationship. As the disintegrating May, Dahlia Mindlin calls to mind a young Mia Farrow in her harrowing portrayal of the fragile Rosemary..."

We Control the Vertical
Screens Column  October 17, 1997

"...This Friday night Biography (A&E; 10/17; 7pm) profiles actress Mia Farrow in a sympathetic but even-handed look at her rather public life, from her marriage to Frank Sinatra to the humiliating break-up of her relationship with Woody Allen. Farrow, as well as her mother, actress Maureen O'Sullivan, is also interviewed..."

Film Reviews
News Story  December 8, 1995

"...RECKLESSD: Norman RenŽ; with Mia Farrow, Scott Glenn, Mary-Louise Parker, Tony Goldwyn, Eileen Brennan, Giancarlo Esposito, Stephen Dorff. (PG-13, 92 min.) Okay; itÕs Christmastime and youÕre thinking that you just might explode if you watch ItÕs a Wonderful Life one more time. Although we embrace as a part of our heritage that movieÕs lessons about the goodness of humanity, the riches inherent in living a simple, uncelebrated life, and the community virtues practiced by small-town Middle Americans, stillÉ there are just some holiday seasons when HollywoodÕs nostalgic vision of the Americana that never was seems nearly as sticky and welcome as another fruitcake..."

Widows' Peak
Film Review  June 10, 1994
Description: There's a twist at the end of the mostly excellent period mystery Widows' Peak that'll probably have the masses chatting nearly as much as The Crying Game did. Luckily, it's...

"...Directed by: John Irvin. Starring: Mia Farrow, Joan Plowright, Natasha Richardson, Adrian Dunbar, Jim Broadbent and Anne Kent..."

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