Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
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This is the grand culmination of having Paul Giamatti, the actor, and the money to produce your film.
In the end, it’s the profound existential questions that elevate Barthes’s film to pure artistry.
I know. I can hardly believe the headline either.
Despite the fact that the president of the U.S. is depicted as a pasty white guy, the film is an unmistakably Obama-era military fantasy.
We are over halfway through shooting God’s Land now—and seeing light at the end of the tunnel for some of our principal actors.
Sigourney Weaver (as the thinking leg-man’s ideal woman) makes a pretty good case for the benefits of the elite class.
Abel Ferrara was in the right place at the right time to make Bad Lieutenant.
The film leaves us with a rather overlong, lovey-dovey picture of Julia Child.
Departures is a lovely, moving, funny, and hugely satisfying film.
Long before the end, the filmmakers seem to pretty much lose all interest in probing the true nature of love.
At least as a balancing act between violent set pieces and charming banter, A Perfect Getaway is never dull.
Smile ‘Til It Hurtsis a nice trip down memory lane, but the tunes are nothing to sing about.
Michael Mann’s films tell the kinds of stories that writing gurus love because they can be summed up in a single sentence.
Is there a less diluted apogee of the gonzo-autuerist ideal than artist, critic, and avant-garde cheerleader Jonas Mekas?
Andrew Bujalski’s Beeswax is largely concerned with the imprecisions of language.
Bliss is an illustration of how inadequate fiction can be at tackling the über-sober topic of sexual victimization.
The film is geared around an easily foreseeable twist and concludes with a surprise that would have better served as the premise.
Score a point against imaginative kiddie fare.
To David Hudson: Great to have you back, sir, and best of luck!
The film is as powerfully effective as any in the Dardennes’ whole oeuvre.