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“I hate the idea that film is actually telling a story!” A striking division in the Cannes film festival this year: between films that offer dark, bleak (read: despairing, nihilistic)[…]
Eat first, talk later? If only! Yep, those fairies at the Magic Kingdom are at it again. They’re tryin’ to talk all us straight-thinkin’ folks from Middle America into respecting[…]
“We couldn’t figure out how to divide the cat . . .” Queer documentaries have had a special place in homo history at least since 1978’s Word Is Out, the pioneering showcase[…]
Ecce homo I looked at him closely and more quickly (one can, without taking one’s eyes off an object, look very quickly. At that moment my “gaze” swooped down on[…]
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica
It came from San Francisco This is the first of a two-part article exploring how hard-core porn evolved through the efforts of Jim and Artie Mitchell and other pioneers, with[…]
DVD & Blu-ray · Music & Musicals · Reviews
“It flashes before our eyes, and we are not even sure what we have witnessed.” There is an incongruous moment in Please Leave Quietly (2006), the long-awaited concert DVD from[…]
“Like the implicit struggle between Salome and Herod, it becomes unclear as to who serves whom.” The Night Porter is an explicit film full of implicators, implications and implicitness. Director[…]
Art for [PAM]’s sake The “Perpetual Art machine” [PAM] is a new media project begun in 2005 that presents the work of a large number of video artists as pieces[…]
Can a film with George Clooney, Matt Damon, and Brad Pitt be all bad? Yes. Future generations will study Steven Soderbergh’s latest, Ocean’s Thirteen. Not future film scholars, of course,[…]
“What these Americans have could happen to us. And this is frightening.” Michael Moore’s Sicko begins with clips of what happens to Americans who don’t have health insurance. A man[…]
“People can die without love.” The boy is unloved. Magnus has the dead expression of depression as he walks around his Estonian town, stopping in on his selfish vulgar mother,[…]
“The grafting on of the film’s film noir plot has a reductionist minimalism to it, as if Kaurismaki were sketching an archetype . . .” Aki Kaurismaki offers Lights in the Dusk[…]
“His characters have tended to be more bewildered by life and disgusted by a world that won’t cooperate.” As Jack Nicholson turns 70 (April 2007), he embodies more than ever[…]
Harry the Fifth comes in third OK, the latest Harry Potter — Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, to give the full name — isn’t a bad flick[…]
Will the twain ever meet? Why isn’t film criticism taught by film critics in British universities? Or to put it another way; why have we never heard of those who[…]
Since cutting off my cable I’ve managed to avoid 99% of the crap advertising I used to be subject to. Now I just have to soak up the subliminal messages[…]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P9_0JEje8k] I’ve been thinking a lot about director Leo McCarey lately and, in particular, how so many of his movies , from the 1928 Laurel and Hardy short Two Tars[…]
Yes, Matt Groening and James L. Brooks are rich, rich white men, and thanks to The Simpsons Movie, they’re going to be even richer. Much as I would like to[…]
Most critics have approached Werner Herzog’s latest film Rescue Dawn with qualifying kid gloves, as if it would be impolite to question a late work from such a grand old[…]
Fans of Hong Kong action cinema have long had to wade through murky, treacherous terrain, even with the arrival of DVD: bad transfers, faded, junky prints, badly cropped pan&scan;[…]
