Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
In the end, the action is insulting not because it’s merely uninspired, but because it’s inherently lazy.
If nothing else, There Will Be Blood has been a boon to the T-shirt industry.
Shot to shot, Blood: The Last Vampire is borderline incomprehensible.
Screw the cheerleader, save the world?
This isn’t the realm of sentimentality, because love here is violent and obsessive and all-encompassing.
I am a research scientist, a walk of life whose cinematic counterparts are relegated to a few stale options.
The appeal of Deadgirl depends exclusively on the intriguing image at its center: a nude, softly writhing girl on a slab.
I can’t think of any filmmaker who so adeptly and obsessively focuses our attention to precisely what’s on screen.
The film’s absurdism-via-naturalism aesthetic utterly deflates when the big night at the “Bonin’ Motel” arrives.
Like his previous Duck Season, Fernando Eimbcke’s Lake Tahoe is a comedy about stasis.
The split persona at the center of the film hews intriguingly close to the personal foibles of star John Barrymore.
Tricia O’Kelley’s Sylvia Miller isn’t the dullest person in Weather Girl.
Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg benefits from a charismatic if elusive biographical subject that has all but faded from public view.
Whatever Works is an infinitely savvier movie than it’s receiving credit for in the mainstream press.
Released 20 years ago this month, Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing was one of the most controversial films of its time.
Tempest is notable in John Barrymore’s catalogue for exuding an aura of mostly asexual cultural significance.
Director Karen Shakhnazarov is most adept at nonlinear transitions.
Varda turns the camera on herself and her own life, even though she convincingly posits that she’s much more interested in other people.
Despite its Hitchcockian title and corresponding everyman-embroiled-in-foreign-intrigue premise, the film is a frustratingly suspense-free affair.
Was this real? Did I dream it?