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Performing Illusions: Cinema, Special Effects and the Virtual Actor,by Dan North. London: Wallflower, 2008. Paperback $28.00, 224pp. ISBN: 978-1-905674-43-4. “Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect[…]
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[…]
Activist & Political · Directors · Interviews
“I’m shitting bricks, thinking he’s onto me.”
Activist & Political · Reviews
“Only saviors can save polluted planets, yellow cab drivers are losers . . .”
“His plan mirrors Johnny’s, that is, pieces of the plan are known to one person: Johnny and Stanley; and not until the end do we see most of their pieces come into place.
Activist & Political · Reviews · War
“Chew popcorn to avoid grinding teeth, comrades.”
“I told him, ‘I’m not gay. My neck was cold.'”
“Dillinger had recently undergone plastic surgery to alter his face and to try to remove his fingerprints. But Public Enemies does not dare to depict that kind of desperation and that determination to survive under any circumstances.”
What is fascinating about the Polanski case is that it is not particularly about Polanski. Looking at the debate raised in France (where I live) and the United States –[…]
“I don’t need other people. I don’t need help. I can take care of me.”
Directors · Experimental & Underground · Interviews
“One who knows how to, as they say, ‘read’ the images, can tell everything about me.”
“The problem is other people crazy people.”
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.”
“This is the World War II film confronting its Jungian shadow, acknowledging its darkest impulses and finally purging them.”
Reviews · Thrillers & Action · War
“Tarantino thus concedes some of his omnipotence to the medium he so deftly manipulates.”
Activist & Political · Crime · Historical & Epic · Reviews
How a movie exposé of “abuse of power” defends those in power and their institutions
Filming The Great Gatsby in the 21st Century
“VIFF remains the unspoiled oasis for cinephiles looking to get away from it all.”
Festivals & Awards · LGBT & Queer
Getting out of the ghetto
