Olivier Assayas' new film, SUMMER HOURS, follows three grown siblings as they reconvene from their respective lives scattered around the world to decide how to handle the wishes of their recently deceased matriarch. Olivier has made a heart-rending and thoughtful piece about the responsibilities parents pass on to their children ... Continue reading.
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
I guess there's just no pleasing me (cue vigorously nodding heads), because for the first hour, when the film seems wholly ... Continue reading
"Ah, one for the boys over at Slant," I thought, and sure enough. For those not temperamentally inclined to celebrate ... Continue reading
Except they're not, is the thing. What they're actually gonna do is enact the most desultory, useless lovers-on-the-lam scenario ever, "fleeing" ... Continue reading
Remember in Mulholland Dr. when that creepy dude points at the headshot and says, flatly, "This is the girl"? Try to ... Continue reading
Jose Saramago is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. Fernando Mereilles is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker. Together, their talents converge like oil and ...
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The Closing Night film of the Directors' Fortnight at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival THE PLEASURE OF BEING ROBBED, opens ...
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Group dysfunction set to a hypnotizing, heroin-grade sitar drone. Ondi Timoner’s seven-year document of the rivalry between retro-psychedelic L.A. rock ...
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Odd pick, we know. But visually and viscerally, these black-and-white shorts from the 1930s haunt us still, as do Popeye’s ...
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On the whole, boxing movies tend to valorize the pathos of down-and-out bruisers. Mark Robson’s 1949 drama Champion, based on ...
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