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Wings not desired Simply assuming that human goodness will triumph over its opposite is — as everybody knows — an immature stance. It makes us easy targets for scoundrels of[…]
African American · Essays · Genres · Lists · Movies
“It’s independent thinking without the protection of an ‘indie’ label.” While hosting the Academy Awards in 2005, Chris Rock made the following claim: black films don’t have real names. “Barbershop?[…]
“The tourist says that it’s a lot to carry and the worker agrees, then gets on with his work.” Fifteen years after the fall of the Iron Curtain and the[…]
“If there’s a beast in men, it meets its match in women too.” The Company of Wolves (1984) — a first foray into horror by future Interview with a Vampire[…]
What is the best way of placing a body? The opening scenes of The River (1997) are spent trying to make a body move and work in a realistic way. A film[…]
It’s all here, including the “Mission Accomplished” moment Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns, which was the number one movie in America on its opening weekend in June 2006, is a listless,[…]
“This new millennium hero lives in a fortress of solitary and alienated hyper-masculinity.” Note: This article contains spoilers. I never thought I would see the day when I would write[…]
“Again the camera shows how the imperfection of Asa’s face does not present an insurmountable obstacle to her being ultimately attractive.” Within cinema scholarship there is a reluctance to address[…]
Past trumps present in this unremarkable fest If, as proclaimed by its director Richard Peña, the New York Film Festival is a “kind of report on the state of cinema,”[…]
Actors & Personalities · Artists · Directors · Interviews · Movies
With additional comments by Catalina Sandino Moreno and Ethan Hawke Introduction The distributor’s website describes Richard Linklater’s Fast Food Nation, a dramatic feature based on Eric Schlosser’s best-selling book, as[…]
Bob Zemeckis and Stephen Spielberg want your money. Give it to them. It’s sad but true: no one does spit tobacco juice on the audience in Monster House. But even[…]
Bring us the head of Sofia Coppola, ‘k? Of all cinema publics, France holds the reputation for the most cinephiles, for being the home of the invention of the “auteur.”[…]
Provocative and visionary! The MadCat Women’s International Film Festival is based in San Francisco, but one hesitates to call it a “San Francisco festival.” Programmed for the past ten years (this September[…]
Artists · Directors · Interviews · Movies · Reviews
“I do not have the serenity of women. But I admire it.” Pedro Almodovar’s new film Volver (Return) features an unusual number of deaths. Penelope Cruz, in the best performance[…]
