Looking Closer
The Over the Rhine live album Changes Come is now available for order at Paste Music! (more…) Read more
The Over the Rhine live album Changes Come is now available for order at Paste Music! (more…) Read more
…the directors of Two Brothers and America’s Heart and Soul, respectively. I’ve been scraping away at the hours for time to write reviews and edit this stuff, and I finally decided to post “almost-there” versions of the interviews, since the films may not be in theatres much longer. Anyway, I enjoyed both conversations, and I hope they shed some light on the films for you. Jean-Jacques Annaud Louis Schwartzberg Coming soon, my interviews with Patrice Leconte (Man on the Train,... Read more
This interview was originally published at Promontory Artists Association in 2004 upon the release of Jean-Jacques Annaud’s film Two Brothers. – With his new film Two Brothers, French filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud has produced one of the year’s best family films. My review of the film is here. I got up early to speak with Annaud by telephone this week. He was in France where it was already mid-afternoon. He spoke about the challenges of working with tigers, the themes that... Read more
Changes Come, a new live album from Over the Rhine, WAS available for a few fleeting moments at Paste. (more…) Read more
Last summer, I had my first experience at the Cornerstone Festival. (more…) Read more
Jeffrey’s review of The Clearing was published at Christianity Today in July 2004. Read more
He made moviegoers so many offers they could never refuse. (more…) Read more
Last night, I caught a screening of The Clearing , which stars three of my favorites: Robert Redford, Helen Mirren, and Willem Dafoe. It starts out like a thriller, but it is far from thrilling. Pieter Jan Brugge’s directorial debut is watchable only for its talented cast, a trio of formidable actors who make you wonder what drew them to this particular script. It’s a kidnapping yarn that raises a lot of interesting questions and suggests myriad possibilities for conspiracy... Read more
This week’s edition of Film Forum is the liveliest in many months, featuring a wide range of opinions on Fahrenheit 9/11 and The Notebook, plus euphoric raves over Spider-Man 2 and admiration for Two Brothers. (more…) Read more
Matt Labash will make your head spin with his revelations about Moore’s “revelations.” (more…) Read more
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