The festival’s greatest singularity is two-fold: its lack of pretense and judicious curatorial eye.
Somewhere, Jeffrey Lyons is rolling on the floor laughing.
Show, don’t tell, say the movie experts.
Grandma’s Boy announces its retro style with an opening shot of the Asteroids Atari video game.
First, a note on terminology: contrapuntal narration is a specific type of narration that is not merely decorative or functional.
Go For Zucker’s humor is rooted in Jewish comic traditions, but does its broad, equal-opportunity kvetching disguise contempt?
Apropos of nothing, here’s a wonderful passage from the introduction to William Goldman’s Four Screenplays with Essays
Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 epic Barry Lyndon is perhaps his most uncompromising work.
George Lucas haters seem unaware of the fact that Star Wars was never supposed to compete with Antonioni or even Bob Rafelson.
The film’s unconscious but perplexing stance becomes a cop-out in the end.
BloodRayne ably continues Uwe Boll’s indisputable reign as the worst filmmaker on the planet.
The Beauty Academy of Kabul captures the still-wide chasm between Western and Middle Eastern women’s realities.
On the Outs exhibits a narrative laxity that occasionally flirts with formlessness.
Tamara fails to approximate the lascivious sadism or the campy hysteria of its forefathers.
The Hole Story is a merger of faux-documentary, psychological drama, media satire, and cringe comedy.
Mikio Naruse’s Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro is primarily a vehicle for its very attractive stars.
In general, the smarter and sadder Platt is allowed to be, the more piercing and exciting he is.
Mikio Naruse’s Wife! Be Like a Rose! has the distinction of being the first Japanese talkie to receive a commercial U.S. release.
Other people direct movies. Terrence Malick builds cathedrals.
My grandfather believed that no journey, however seemingly circuitous or self-destructive, was ever truly unnecessary, or even avoidable.
Scattered Clouds, director Mikio Naruse’s final film, plays like the melancholy last dance.