Olivier Assayas' quiet, lyrical new film SUMMER HOURS follows three grown siblings as they gather to decide how to handle the wishes of their recently deceased matriarch. The film subtly explores the idea of family heritage and responsibility, as well as the intimate relationship we sometimes form with material things.
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The Closing Night film of the Directors' Fortnight at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival THE PLEASURE OF BEING ROBBED, opens today at the IFC Center in New York. While in Cannes, Director Josh Safdie and brother Benny took to the French Riviera streets with digital cameras in hand to search ... Continue reading
2008 NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL GUEST BLOGGER: FILMLINC- Gomorra might be mistaken for a network narrative in the style of Traffic, Crash or Babel, given its implications as a synedcoche for a global social problem. But whereas Soderbergh, Haggis and Izarritu build their structures horizontally, Matteo Garrone’s ... Continue reading
FILMCATCHER @ NYFF BLOG- Every major film festival presents a gallery of cinema offerings and possible discoveries for those curious enough to seek out unfamiliar work by international narrative-film artists and imagemakers. The New York Film Festival may play it safe by screening films that already have theatrical distribution, like ... Continue reading
As I've argued for over a decade now, Eastwood-as-director, with his so-called "classical" style that really amounts to a sort of ... Continue reading
Make no mistake: This film is deadly -- a stilted, stultifying pomo costume drama that makes Oliveira look like Aronofsky. There ... Continue reading
As movies with no compelling reason to exist go, this one is really quite good. Soderbergh's shift from freewheeling, widescreen Cuban ... Continue reading
Week in and week out, as part of our ongoing series of video interviews, I chat up film-world personalities for FilmCatcher, along with my colleague ... Continue reading
We don’t care how many bad movies Ridley Scott has made, we’re still hoping for a glimmer of the radical ...
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Hell if we know what Wong Kar-wai’s sad-sack samurai epic is all about. Something to do with memory and the ...
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Oh, those gorgeous skater boys! We know Gus Van Sant has an Adonis complex, but who can blame him? Youth ...
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Make no mistake, cult fans: This Troma film is shite. A sub–Ed Wood exploitation flick about a post-apocalyptic beach where ...
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If you haven’t yet discovered Peter Bogdanovich’s hide-raising debut thriller, starring Boris Karloff as an aging horror-movie star caught in ...
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