Ari Folman, director of the exceptional WALTZ WITH BASHIR, talks with us about his animated documentary/fiction hybrid film based on the director’s harrowing personal experiences as a young Israeli soldier caught up in the hostilities with Lebanon in the early ’80s. WALTZ WITH BASHIR opened December 25th in New York ... Continue reading.
Golden Globe nominee Ari Folman has had such success with Waltz with Bashir—an animated, dreamlike docu-memoir about the 1982 Lebanese war that’s on lots of year-end Top 10 lists—he’s decided to adopt a similar formal strategy for his next project. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Israeli writer-director has ... Continue reading
Over the holidays, I had a chance to read Neil Gaiman’s Coraline, a 162-page Gothic fairy tale for younger readers, which I gave to my 11-year-old nephew as a Christmas present. (He knew the story already, and was a bit more interested in Wii ... Continue reading
The final curtain closed on master dramatist Harold Pinter, 78, on Christmas Eve, just a couple of weeks after the Nobel Prize–winning playwright, poet, stage director, and actor was awarded an honorary degree from London’s Central School of Speech and Drama, the last in a lifelong series of impressive accolades, ... Continue reading
Exorcism, body horror, vampirism, ghosts, a creepy kid, monstrous transformations, and a lip-smackingly luscious Last Girl (Odette Yustman). What doesn’t this horror flick harbor in ... Continue reading
Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas may be unknown in his home country, but he established a built-to-last reputation on the festival circuit with Japón and the ... Continue reading
China has its ravishing costume epics and high-flying martial-arts ballets courtesy of Fifth Generation artists like Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, whose epic pictures are ... Continue reading
Gus Van Sant’s short-film adaptation of this dryly hilarious how-to text by Naked Lunch novelist William S. Burroughs (“DE simply means doing whatever you do ... Continue reading
Exorcism, body horror, vampirism, ghosts, a creepy kid, monstrous transformations, and a lip-smackingly luscious Last Girl (Odette Yustman). What doesn’t ...
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Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas may be unknown in his home country, but he established a built-to-last reputation on the festival ...
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China has its ravishing costume epics and high-flying martial-arts ballets courtesy of Fifth Generation artists like Zhang Yimou and Chen ...
Read more.
Gus Van Sant’s short-film adaptation of this dryly hilarious how-to text by Naked Lunch novelist William S. Burroughs (“DE simply ...
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For this hypercanonical and somehow ageless thriller, John Huston and screenwriter Richard Brooks teamed up to adapt Maxwell Anderson’s Broadway ...
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