Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
This 5 for the Day focuses on moments of sexual/romantic connection between two characters.
Sue Kramer’s Gray Matters is as unhinged as its characters.
The best thing that can be said about Breach is that it isn’t directed by Tony Scott.
All the syrup makes the cardboard taste better.
This category makes me sad for what it exposes about the way Academy Award winners are made and potentially set up for embarrassing falls.
No surprise to read that Eric Rohmer was an early patron of the French filmmaker Jean-Claude Brisseau.
With The Departed, William Monahan turned what was, in Infernal Affairs, a smart concept given a terminally vague execution into a high-concept vehicle fit for mass consumption.
If Martin Scorsese loses again this year he will become the director with the most nominations in this category without ever winning.
One must wonder if someone at Paramount has an old score to settle with Eddie Murphy.
This year’s “Film Comment Selects” program collects 18 features that span the full spectrum of the cine-world stage.
Sure, the last time the majority of nominations in this category belonged to a single film, said film actually won.
A sober surrealist, Jean-Claude Brisseau is charting terrain that has been of similar interest to both Catherine Breillat and David Lynch.
We seem to do better at picking a winner when we actually haven’t seen the nominated films.
We must taste really, really good.
The Orwellian intimations are, like the copious shout-outs to Brecht and Beethoven, catnip to audiences who never heard of The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum.
Theough more ambitious than Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me, Maxed Out is also more scatterbrained.
So essentially meritless are the films up for this award, it’s hardly worth discussing the merits or demerits of each as a viable candidate.
We’re now seeing a variety of films borne of the sentiments of our own time.
Character trajectories have never come this easy—at least not since Tsotsi last year.
The only people who can possibly learn something from a movie like The Last Sin Eater are those who follow blindly.