Not surprisingly, Ace in the Hole was received poorly by the media at the time of its release.
James Muro’s camerawork for Open Range was the unsung cinematographic wonder of 2003.
Lucas Belvaux’s On the Run is the first installment in a trilogy of films I’ll hereby refer to as the director-actor’s Trois Genres.
Nothing that happens in one film illuminates what happens in the others.
You know a film is in trouble when a studio has to dig all the way to the bottom of the barrel and use a quote by Earl Dittman.
Despite the closure evoked by the film’s title, Belvaux has suggested that his three films can be watched in any order.
Hiding and Seeking is a testament to reaching out for the better good.
This disc features one of the most personable collections of extras amassed for a major DVD release in quite some time.
Andrei Zvyagintsev’s macho endurance test is an abject lesson in abject parenting.
The film is a Christmas card to Tokyo’s homeless inspired by John Ford’s religious western 3 Godfathers.
Jordan’s shallow treatise on army hypocrisy can’t shake the ghosts of M*A*S*H and Catch-22.
Osama may seem redundant after Jafar Panahi’s The Circle or Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s Kandahar, but it’s no less powerful.
This lovely video travelogue makes room for every minority in the country.
Just as every action in the film has its own reaction, every image evokes the oneness of the film’s characters to their natural surroundings.
I was indisposed when a Miramax publicist called to tell me that a media screening I had been scheduled for had been moved.
In forcing its main character to ask big questions, the film awakens him to the reality of capitalism’s tactless, personality-free invasion.
The walking-on-eggshells existentialism that pits Siula Grande against the atheistic Joe Simpson is the director’s afterlife of choice.
Do…I…sound…like…a…musical…robot?
Strictly for die-hard fans of Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th.
The only reality here is that truth is slippery, and that’s something Nick Broomfield understands more than most documentary filmmakers working today.