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
They Lost It at the Movies: Film Culture in the Age of Positif and Cineaste
“I can’t believe that you let those people put pictures on your skin.” C. W.’s father to C. W. Moss in Bonnie and Clyde
Activist & Political · Directors · Documentaries
Bowling a Strike for Columbine: Michael Moore hits the screen with both barrels blasting
Michael Moore hits the screen with both barrels blasting.
From Joy Luck to Better Luck: The title is a little too accurate
The title is a little too accurate
Through a Glass Darkly: Bergman as Critical and Cultural Bellwether
As Bergman goes, so go attitudes toward European art cinema.
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.
Directors · Experimental & Underground
An Appraisal of the Films of William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Anthony Balch in terms of Recent Avant Garde Theory
Those crazy “cut-ups” Burroughs, Gysin, and Balch restored to their rightful place in avant-garde film history Preface This is the first serious critical study to contextualize the films of Burroughs,[…]
Chicago: Hollywood Does Bollywood
No one can steal like America can steal Wish you could look like Leo, dance like Fred, and sing like Frank? Well, of course you do, but you can’t, and[…]
Composers · Music & Musicals · Reviews
Weill & Brecht: The Rise and Fall of Mahagonny on DVD
Show us the way to the next pretty boy Don’t know much about history? Well, don’t sweat it, because Kurt Weill and Bertold Brecht didn’t either when they decided to[…]
Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control on DVD
“We’ve agreed to be part of a collective perception … To become a crowd is to keep out death. To break off from the crowd is to risk death as[…]
“I Don’t Know Dick”: Heavy Metal 2000 on DVD
“The ‘key’ to the ‘chamber’ of immortality looks like a glowing white penis” Contrary to the title of this review, anyone who knows the prolific output – 92 B-movies since[…]
The Bowery: Raoul Walsh’s Gangs of New York
They spit! They swear! They smoke in bed! Back in 1933, The Bowery scored a big hit, introducing Darryl Zanuck’s new independent venture called Twentieth Century Pictures, yet this nostalgic[…]
Undisputed: Wesley Snipes vs. Ving Rhames
Cinema meets the sweet science at the multiplex, and nobody gets knocked out After a long hot summer of mismatches in 2002, we finally got to see a competitive heavyweight[…]
Activist & Political · Documentaries · Reviews
Estela Bravo’s Fidel (2001), a Documentary
This documentary offers an affectionate, in-depth portrait of the enduring world leader who stood up to the U.S. Over the course of the last 40 years, the CIA has tried[…]
Actors & Personalities · Reviews
Come Back, Jack! Why Schmidt Is Shit
Payne capsized an actor and a novel in this misfire About Schmidt drives another nail in the coffin of irony. About Schmidt is as lacking in irony as its blatant[…]
Actors & Personalities · Reviews
Two Hour Movie (Starring Robin Williams in One Hour Photo)
Robin Williams morphs again, and still nobody’s laughing We all have met a man like Seymour Parrish at some point in our lives. Whether he was refilling our slurpies at[…]
Watch Me While I Die: Stephen Daldry’s The Hours
This “sensitive” film prefers its women dead – metaphorically or literally What happens when a film about women tries to force us to the conclusion that the thinking woman, or[…]
Ho-hum Intrigue in Barcelona: Gaudi Afternoon on DVD
It’s little wonder this yawner didn’t get a theatrical release Gaudi Afternoon, a 2001 San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival entry, never got a theatrical distributor and has[…]
Sad, Angry Man: Basil Dearden’s Victim on DVD
A landmark work in the queer canon arrives on DVD Basil Dearden’s excellent thriller Victim was released in 1961, during roughly the same time as the ascension of Britain’s “angry[…]
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