by Vadim Rizov Overviews of the spaghetti western inevitably begin with Sergio Leone, whose presentation of Clint Eastwood as the ultimate laconic Westerner grows more iconic throughout the genre-cod...
by Nick Schager [This weeks "Retro Active" pick is inspired by the aliens-and-cops sequel Men in Black III.] An aliens-among-us thriller containing social and gender critiques within its body...
by Vadim Rizov Much of whats been written about Abbas Kiarostamis Certified Copy dilates on the question of whether an afternoons worth of Italian countryside sparring between "She" (Juliette...
by Steve Dollar Something like the Dead Sea Scrolls of 1960s (and 70s) underground comedies, the five films assembled in the new Criterion Collection Eclipse set Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr. h...
by Nick Schager [This weeks "Retro Active" pick is inspired by the star-studded babies-a-poppin rom-com What to Expect When Youre Expecting.] Never has a movie made having children seem less ...
by Vadim Rizov Elena is didactic filmmaking and in interviews, director Andrei Zvyagintsev hasnt been shy in explicitly stating his fundamental criticism of the contemporary Russian underclass. "...
by Steve Dollar Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait, whose career as a filmmaker has yielded such dark and excoriating satirical fare as Shakes the Clown and Worlds Greatest Dad, has been making the festival ...
by Nick Schager [This weeks "Retro Active" pick is inspired by Tim Burton and Johnny Depps fish-out-of-water vampire comedy Dark Shadows.] Pair a flagging comedian with a floundering horror d...
by Vadim Rizov Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-edas last film to receive American distribution, 2008s Still Walking, ended with a long shot of trains passing, "a moment whose metaphoric intent is...
by Steve Dollar Somewhere around 1 a.m. at the Lithuanian Hall in Baltimore, it hit me. Why shouldnt this be the place to have a passionate, detailed conversation about independent filmmaking? Film f...
by Vadim Rizov [Presented by Milestone Films, The Connection opens today at NYCs IFC Center in a new 35mm restoration.] Though credulous French viewers allegedly mistook it for vérité footage at Cann...
by Nick Schager [This weeks "Retro Active" pick is inspired by Marvels superhero-team extravaganza The Avengers.] Released before 2002s Spider-Man and the ensuing (and still-ongoing) onslaugh...
by Craig Phillips [The 55th San Francisco International Film Festival continues through May 3.] The distinctly deadpan feature debut of Lebanese filmmaker Rania Attieh and her American co-director Da...
by Steve Dollar I dont care what you say; the cinema is richer because Harmony Korine exists within it. Hopes for The Fourth Dimension were calibrated, nonetheless. The only advance word on the new f...
by Nick Schager [This weeks pick is inspired by the Edgar Allan Poe-themed horror-mystery The Raven.] Not to be nitpicky, but it would have benefited Web of the Spider if it had something—anything—to...
by Vadim Rizov A minor Richard Linklater film is better than no Linklater at all. Bernie reteams Austin, Texas finest with Jack Black eight years after their major-studio breakthrough School of Rock....
by Steve Dollar The end of the world was just the beginning of this years Tribeca Film Festival. Serious consideration of apocalyptic themes have permeated all kinds of recent cinema, perhaps gearing...
by Nick Schager [This weeks "Retro Active" pick is inspired by the female boarding-school chiller The Moth Diaries.] Dario Argentos fascination with sight takes sexually anxious form in Pheno...
by Vadim Rizov 2005s A Tale of Cinema inaugurated the second phase of Korean auteur Hong Sang-soos career (Hong 2.0), introducing basic components returned to and toyed with in every subsequent film:...
by Steve Dollar I remember the first time I visited the Mars Bar. It was 1997, and a friend dragged me there very late one night. It was the kind of East Village dive, just a block off the Bowery, th...
by Vadim Rizov The original proposed cast for the Farrelly brothers feature was a dramatic power-house—Jim Carrey, Benicio Del Toro, Sean Penn—that wouldve underscored every eye-gouge and...
by Nick Schager [This weeks "Retro Active" pick is inspired by Guy Pearces prison-break heroics in Lockout.] Nicolas Cage is a paternalistic white American god who unites the countrys dispara...
by Nick Schager [This weeks "Retro Active" pick is inspired by Willem Dafoes ignoble expedition in The Hunter.] Clint Eastwoods surgical dissection of the iconic alpha-male persona that made ...
by Vadim Rizov "What the world needs to work properly is a large mass of normal people," transfer student Lily (Analeigh Tipton) concludes near the end of Damsels in Distress. With his fondne...
by Steve Dollar One loquacious greybeard, that most Canadian of Canadian filmmakers (or should we say "most Winnipeggian"?) Guy Maddin never so much sits for an interview as he does take occa...
by Nick Schager [This weeks "Retro Active" pick is inspired by another fantasy revamp of a storybook classic, Mirror Mirror.] Red Riding Hoods signature shawl symbolizes the eroticism and men...
by Vadim Rizov Kleber Mendonça Filhos Neighboring Sounds opens with contextless black-and-white stills implying a history of subjugation: villagers interviewed by tailored officials, laborers hoeing ...
by Steve Dollar As much a spectacle for Halftime in America as the GOP primary circus, if vastly more sober-minded, The Hunger Games serves itself up as an Orwellian reality show in which a future pa...
by Nick Schager [This weeks "Retro Active" pick is inspired by the battle royale within the new franchise du jour The Hunger Games.] Generational conflict takes on gory dimensions in Battle R...
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