Animation · Animators · Interviews
“It’s Amazing I’ve Survived”: An Interview with Bill Plympton
“The football game where the chicken mascot runs around crazy with an erection was inspired by a story that someone told me…”
Category: Genres
Sideways: Sideways to Hell, Maybe!
Alexander Payne’s new indie is headed in the wrong direction
Unhappy Together: Wong Kar-Wai’s 2046
“Why can’t it be like before?”
Activist & Political · Crime · Horror
Training Day (for the Pacification of Iraq): Baghdad in the Ghetto
“You know what I learned today? I’m not like you.”
DVD & Blu-ray · Music & Musicals
Shocking Times: Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue on DVD
While the counterculture turns on, Miles plugs in with startling results
Mike Leigh’s 20th Century Snaps: Vera Drake and Naked
Two sides of the same desperate coin
Baby, Take a Bow: That’s Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood continues to surprise and thrill
Asian · Essays · Exploitation & Erotica · Thrillers & Action
Against Pleasure, Against Identification: Feminism, Cultural Atheism, and the Tragic Subject (Part One)
Rescuing feminism from rape and queer theory
The Aviator: Marty and Leo Do Howard
It all started when his mother washed his balls
Beyond Subtitles: Some Thoughts on Viewing Foreign Language Films
It’s the visuals, stupid
Directors · Drama · DVD & Blu-ray · Experimental & Underground · Reviews
Doing What Moves Them at the Moment: Five of Cassavetes’ Best on DVD
The master of improv gets his due courtesy of Criterion’s extras-laden box set
No Cellos, Please, I’m American: Mike Nichols’ Closer Is Haute Merde
All glitz and no guts
Drama · Historical & Epic · Reviews
Plumbing the Depths: Renoir and Kurosawa Do Gorky
Criterion’s double-feature DVD features two minor works by two major auteurs
Distribute This! Kent Mackenzie’s The Exiles (1961)
This uncategorizable classic captures life in L.A.’s seamy underbelly
Activist & Political · Westerns
High Noon: Liberal Classic? Conservative Screed?
Or something else…
Film Technology & History · Producers & Studios
“Nice town. I’ll take it.” Howard Hughes and Hollywood
A salute to the playboy entrepreneur of Tinseltown
Asian · Directors · Interviews
Talking to Hirokazu Kore-eda: On Maborosi, Nobody Knows, and Other Pleasures
“I simply want to look at people as they are.”
Documentaries · LGBT & Queer · Memoir · Reviews
Going Mental: The Travesties of Tarnation
“He’d fuck himself if he could”
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