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April 28, 2009
Beau Travail (Denis, 2000)
There is no way this film should be this good. A retelling of Herman Melville's...
April 28, 2009
Mogambo (Ford, 1953)
Okay, the plot is pure melodrama, but talk about star power...
April 28, 2009
Sansho The Baliff (Mizoguchi, 1954)
One mark of a newbie cinephile is that you tend to think that all world...
April 26, 2009
At the Death House Door (Gilbert and James, 2008)
I have read some responses to film that dismiss as (and for) being too politically...
April 26, 2009
Still Walking (Koreeda, 2008)
What is surprising--and delightful--about the film is how clear-eyed the portrait of the family is...
April 26, 2009
Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt, 2008)
Great art doesn't always have to have its origin in huge ideas or projects of...
April 26, 2009
Lorna’s Silence
The greatness of the brothers Dardenne is not really in dispute. It may be the...
April 26, 2009
At the Edge of the World (Stone, 2008)
As a documentary, the film is informative without being too polemical. It has a point...
April 26, 2009
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Stoller, 2008)
You either laugh or you don't. And I found the puppet Dracula musical funny. I...
April 26, 2009
Happy-Go-Lucky (Leigh, 2008)
I haven't seen this film topping many (any?) end of year lists, but it sure...
April 26, 2009
The Visitor (McCarthy, 2008)
The first thirty-five or forty minutes or so of Thomas McCarthy's The Visitor is just...
April 26, 2009
2008 Top Ten
The creation, dissemination, and response to such lists have become marked by pettiness, pomposity, and...
April 25, 2009
Three Monkeys
What little buzz I heard about Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Three Monkeys coming out of this...
April 24, 2009
Séraphine (Provost, 2008)
I can immediately think of two primary types of artist biopics. The first is largely...
April 21, 2009
Supermen of Malegaon (Khan, 2009)
When dealing with documentaries of one place (in this case Malegaon, India) for the viewing...
April 21, 2009
Peter Brook
The question that has preoccupied me since screening Peter Brook’s The Lord of the Flies...
April 19, 2009
Art & Copy (Pray, 2009)
Doug Pray’s documentary about the rise of the advertising age, replete with interviews from industry...
April 19, 2009
Wounded Knee (Nelson, 2009)
Director Stanley Nelson (perhaps best known for Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s Temple...
April 19, 2009
Salonica (Poloni, 2009)
Those accustomed to documentaries of place trying to capture a geographical location through a cross...
April 19, 2009
Mechanical Love
Phie Ambo's Mechanical Love kicked off this year's Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The two...
April 19, 2009
Bella (Monteverde, 2006)
When you judge a movie as cultural artifact or sociopolitical argument, I guess, you often...
April 18, 2009
The Servant (Losey, 1963)
If you enter the terms "servant," "losey," and "creepy" into the Google search engine, you...
April 18, 2009
Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol, who is still alive and still working, has seventy-one directorial film credits listed...
April 18, 2009
Camp Diaries (Noland, 2009)
I asked Noland about the title of his film and specifically why he chose the...
April 18, 2009
Documentary Film and the Power of Empathy
A look at some of the best films of the 2008 Full Frame Documentary Film...
April 18, 2009
The Bitter Tea of Mister Capra
People in Capra films--and I'm including the Why We Fight series in this assertion--have high...
April 18, 2009
Owning the Weather (Greene, 2009)
If one proverbial mark of a good narrative film is three good scenes and no...
April 18, 2009
Forgetting Dad (Minnich, 2008)
Forgetting Dad is a beautiful, melancholy, and deeply compassionate film...
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