In NEVER APOLOGIZE, Malcolm McDowell pays tribute to his late friend, iconoclastic British director Lindsay Anderson, who cast him in the anti-establishment school drama, IF... Here, the veteran actor recalls working with Anderson, becoming Alex for A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, and swelling with pride when his 12-year-old found out he’d made ... Continue reading.
GETTING INTO THE SWING OF TORONTO What's with the media and indie film these days? I attend my first party in Toronto, eager to catch up with old film friends and see some new movies, but the toxic murk of today's business environment keeps seeping in. I got a ... Continue reading
PRE-FESTIVAL DRIVE BYS Lorna's Silence (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium/France/Italy): 81
Oh my, a plot. How terribly vulgar. Never mind that the Dardennes have been masterful storytellers from the jump; or that Lorna's Silence ...
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Chabrol’s “A Girl Cut in Two” and Rohmer’s “The Romance of Astrea and Celadon" It is a real treat to be a filmgoer in New York City this week, when new films by two elder statesmen of the French New Wave (not the usual suspects, either) will have their ... Continue reading
What's with the media and indie film these days? I attend my first party in Toronto, eager to catch up with old film friends and ... Continue reading
Treeless Mountain (So Yong Kim, USA/South Korea): 41
For fuck's sake plant something. In Between Days didn't exactly feel ...
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Things seen and overheard, Day One of the Toronto International Film Festival:
Ads hyping the new hybrid Escalade are opening every screening of this ...
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Our loyal viewers might have noticed a change or two on the site in the last few days. Well I think it is high time ... Continue reading
Thai stick for the masses, Pang Bros–style. Nicolas Cage toggles between zany work with the likes of the Coen brothers ...
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Jamie Bell, is it? Now there’s a good lad. When it comes to quirk, we’ll take the bittersweet Scottish variety, ...
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Too avant even for Dalí, Joseph Cornell’s 1936 found-footage masterpiece is now as curiously quaint as one of the collagist’s ...
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Oh dear me, who killed poor Father Dahme? Dana “The Mask” Andrews investigates in this docu-realistic noir based on an ...
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Watch Bette Davis lose her freakin’ mind in Robert Aldrich’s bizarro Southern Gothic melodrama, also starring Olivia De Havilland and ...
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