Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner: Native Canadians and a Glimpse in the Mirror
This breakthrough film fascinates on many levels
Category: Movies
O Captain! My Captain! Master and Commander
Master and Commander wants to raise your mast
The 2003 Montréal World Film Festival
A world-class city offers a world-class fest despite some troubling backstory
The 2003 New York Film Festival
This year’s NYFF is a decidedly mixed bag of tricks
Quickies: Random Short Reviews from Black Rose 2 to Moebius to Wattstax
“I love people reading things with hearts!”
Documentaries · Festivals & Awards · LGBT & Queer · Uncategorized
Put the Camera on Us! Documentaries at the 2003 San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Reality cinema celebrates homos of this year and yesteryear
Quickies: Random Short Reviews from Barbarella to Liquid Sky to The Weather Underground
“All that’s missing is a death-bed blowjob.”
Knocking on Modernity’s Door: Fellini’s I Vitelloni
Postwar despair, Italian style
Of Psychotic Environments and Corporate Hallucinations: The Animatrix on DVD
Masters of anime riff on The Matrix in this sizzling collection of nine shorts
Actors & Personalities · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Angela’s Lashes: Charles Busch’s Die Mommie Die!
Stage vet Charles Busch does glam for camp movie
Out of Focus Auto Focus: Hogan’s Hero becomes Rerun Victim in a few delirious years.
Hogan’s Hero becomes Rerun Victim in a few delirious years.
Through a Glass Darkly: Bergman as Critical and Cultural Bellwether
As Bergman goes, so go attitudes toward European art cinema.
Directors · DVD & Blu-ray · Reviews
The Beauty of Uncertainty: I Know Where I’m Going on DVD
Powell/Pressburger’s fairy tale comes to life on Criterion’s DVD
Directors · DVD & Blu-ray · Reviews
“I Like His Face”: Nicholas Ray’s Noir Classic Restored on DVD
Do you like his face?
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, 2003: A Review
Fine performances are the main attraction of this timely New York tribute to recent French film.
Tongues Untied: Art, Politics, and Business Collide at Oscar’s 75th
It’s contagious even Oscar dissented.
Actors & Personalities · Directors · Reviews
Little Big Man: John Garfield Triumphs in Anatole Litvak’s Out of the Fog
Garfield wraps it up in this 1941 prole drama based on a Group Theatre production
Actors & Personalities · Exploitation & Erotica · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Sex in Shangri-La: Wakefield Poole on DVD
“No top, no bottom. Just two men discovering each other.”
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