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Directors · Experimental & Underground
Entering into negotiations with executives at Time, Inc. over the sale of a film he’d shot in Dallas on November 22, 1963, Abraham Zapruder was adamant that his 26.6 seconds[…]
Sounds like some evil tournament Bruce Li would enter to find the man who killed his master, but no – “macho-fey” is a term coined by the celestial Kim Morgan[…]
It may not be good, but it’s great. It’s great in that it’s gutsy way that no-holds-barred downers like REQUIEM FOR A DREAM and THEY SHOOT HORSES DON’T THEY are[…]
It’s shameful and it’s sad this en masse critical ass-whupping given to poor old M. Night Shyamalan over his second turkey in a row, THE HAPPENING (which would be a[…]
Asian · DVD & Blu-ray · Reviews
It’s not the typical kung fu movie in that the action is not very well choreographed. I don’t think actress Cheng Pei-pei could do too many stunts. But director King[…]
It’s been a few weeks since I laid eyes on it, but there’s something still making me a bit sick whenever I think of THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE. So[…]
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood Mark Harris. New York: Penguin Press, 2008. Cloth, $27.95, 496pp. ISBN 1-594-20152-8. Observers of the Academy Awards[…]
Just because THE DEPARTED doesn’t really seem to occur in the 1970s doesn’t mean Nicholson’s amazing performance as the Irish criminal top dog villain, Frank Costello, doesn’t count. Nor doesn’t[…]
Crime · Reviews · Writers & Critics
“Anyone who speaks unsanitized thought is going to lose.”
“When talking to others, what needs to be articulated?”
Samson, meet Adam; Delilah, meet Eve
Was Le Grande Jean too soft on the aristos?
Actors & Personalities · Directors · Interviews
“A laugh and information!”
Gingerly moving out of the 20th century, not quite into the 21st
“Jancsó’s controlled aesthetic acts as a dissonance that vibrates expressively with scenes of violence, torture, and shame.”
On the manifest destiny of Civil War tricksters and gun-slinging corpses
You mean you’ve tried panicking?
Festivals & Awards · Writers & Critics
Here’s lookin’ at you, Roger
Directors · Festivals & Awards · Interviews
“We in the West trample on them.”
Directors · Documentaries · Festivals & Awards · Interviews
“Why didn’t you just stick to the truth?”
