Somewhere between swinging in Last Year at Marienbad and dropping spoons in Jeanne Dielman, Delphine Seyrig reached a domestic crossroads in Muriel.
A fittingly not well-stocked DVD for a reserved portrait of WWII in miniature.
The film’s confrontational tension stems not only from the open abuse of the interview subjects.
The film is a tender almost-musical about the horrors of war and the obliteration of identity.
It doesn’t take long before Okuzaki is revealed to be an unstable counterpart to the nation’s right-wing fanatics.
This release only represents about a month’s worth of shows and I’m hooked all over again.
Fittingly, nearly any given tune here would work better on a dance-mix CD.
First Snow is a fate-obsessive film that would nearly register as existential were it not so resolutely low-key.
Great dance music is almost always blithely ignorant of irony.
The film is Arrogantly conceived, pretentiously executed, and petulantly protracted.
Congorama’s surfeit of plot twists and implausible coincidences strain narrative credibility.
If the men in Peter Pan are all united in their love of war games, the women fare no better under their two options.
Platinum Edition, diamondique extras.
It’s too bad the guild award that most strongly corresponds with this category—the Motion Picture Sound Editors’ “Golden Reel”—doesn’t get handed out until Feb. 24.
We’ve noticed a certain trend among “professional” Oscar prognosticators—first and foremost among them Dave Karger—in dealing with the question of Dreamgirls.
Last year we sided with the musical candidate and crapped out when voters went for the big black ape instead of the man in black.
The Archers’ 49th Parallel is in tune with the miraculous.
Before The Life and Death of Col. Blimp and A Canterbury Tale, there was 49th Parallel.
The Academy has shown great resistance to awarding costumes without corsets.
For whatever reason, it’s not Peter O’Toole’s perfect 0-for-7 record leading up to this year’s Best Actor contest that’s standing in award-magnet Forest Whitaker’s way to a win.