Tortured Longing is the new coke
I can feel the Twilight zeitgeist in the air tonight, perhaps it’s because I live across from the cinema and the line around the block and I hear them out[…]
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I can feel the Twilight zeitgeist in the air tonight, perhaps it’s because I live across from the cinema and the line around the block and I hear them out[…]
Every time a new film by the Coen brothers comes out, I dread having to hear from the same old so-and-so’s who can’t bear to slog through the Coens’ peculiar[…]
“VIFF remains the unspoiled oasis for cinephiles looking to get away from it all.”
Activist & Political · Crime · Historical & Epic · Reviews
How a movie exposé of “abuse of power” defends those in power and their institutions
Reviews · Thrillers & Action · War
“Tarantino thus concedes some of his omnipotence to the medium he so deftly manipulates.”
Activist & Political · Drama · Reviews
“Where Cloverfield provocatively blurs the line between being ‘about’ 9/11 and being (mere) entertainment, Knowing lands squarely in the latter camp.”
“I told him, ‘I’m not gay. My neck was cold.'”
Activist & Political · Reviews · War
“Chew popcorn to avoid grinding teeth, comrades.”
Activist & Political · Reviews
“Only saviors can save polluted planets, yellow cab drivers are losers . . .”
A tour of Edwards’ curious 1988 film, with side trips to variations by James Ivory, John Schlesinger, and others
An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases
“An alternative agenda for the festival might be: what can we make of modernism?”
This year’s strong, idiosyncratic line-up reminds us that moviegoing can still be more than “a museum experience”
Festivals & Awards · LGBT & Queer
Getting out of the ghetto
When you believe in things you don’t understand, you suffer. – Stevie Wonder * * * In 1949 Walt Disney Studios produced the last, and arguably the best, of their[…]
It’s massively popular, it’s ridiculously mopey, yet it’s also brooding, purple and relatively un-headache-inducing… in short, it’s everything you hate and love about Seattle if you ever tried to move[…]
Music & Musicals · Reviews · TV & Streaming
So many music videos and television commercials have ripped off the imagery of Alain Resnais’s Last Year at Marienbad since its 1961 release that it makes perfect sense for someone[…]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrQIV3aYfiw] In celebration of the birthday of director Michael Powell (1905-1990) today, I’d like to share with you this clip from Powell & Emeric Pressburger’s 1947 color masterpiece, Black Narcissus,[…]
I screened Lars Von Trier’s new film Antichrist a few nights ago in bed, on my iPod touch (insert slightly guilty shrug), while my wife slept beside me. Throughout most[…]
Documentaries · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Since we’re commemorating dire events today, here’s one from queer history worth noting. From today’s Guardian website: Gordon Brown issued an unequivocal apology last night on behalf of the government[…]
