FilmCatcher - Interview with Arnaud Desplechin


Voyage to Skopje

BY DAMON SMITH
The rise of national cinema in the Balkan region over the past decade should be heartening to serious film lovers and anyone with even a vague knowledge of the bloody conflicts that engulfed Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, and neighboring precincts after the breakup of Tito’s Yugoslavia in the ... Continue reading

A Discouraging Word: Tropic Thunder on DVD

BY SIMON AUGUSTINE
“Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or in prison, and did not take care of you?”  Then he will answer, “Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of ... Continue reading

Manny Farber on Acting

It’s difficult, if not impossible, to pick a favorite moment in Negative Space, the collected writings on film by the late painter-critic Manny Farber (co-written from 1975 onward with his partner Patricia Patterson). Brash arguments, heavily allusive turns of phrase, and coruscating insights await a first-time (or repeat) reader almost ... Continue reading


Things To Do on Reel 13

What is it about Reel 13's obsession with Canada? I can't seem to figure it out. It's a New York-based TV show – there are ... Continue reading

The Bad and the Beautiful on Reel 13

Believe it or not, I had not seen this film before and therefore, it was probably my most anticipated Reel 13 film yet. After all, ... Continue reading

Manito on Reel 13

MANITO, the newest Reel 13 Indie about Puerto Rican brothers trying to escape their families' dark past and make ends meet in a mostly Hispanic ... Continue reading

Fetch on Reel 13

I don’t have very much to say about FETCH, the first animated short to be aired by Reel 13 (all of this week’s contestants on ... Continue reading


Multiplex: Bolt

Shamed by Pixar’s far superior CG animation and box-office hegemony, Walt Disney Studios gobbled up the pacesetting animavericks back in ...

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Arthouse: The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)

While many DPs labor in obscurity, cinematographer extraordinaire Ellen Kuras, whose credits include Summer of Sam, Neil Young: Heart of ...

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DVD: The Complete Monty Pythons Flying Circus

The circus is in town! Witty, irreverent, bawdy, and side-splittingly funny, the Pythons (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry ...

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Online: After Life

In the perfect afterlife, we’d all be making movies. That’s the idea behind Hirokazu Kore-eda’s gentle, melancholic drama, about a ...

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TV: End of the Century

The Story of the Ramones: 4:15pm, Wednesday, November 19, TMCe: Thank God we didn’t have to wait until the end ...

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