Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
From Strindberg to von Trier, there has always been a distinctively pokerfaced humor streak running through Scandinavian dourness.
So Much So Fast addresses the miracle of parenthood, time’s fleetingness, the shortcomings of modern medical protocol.
Elem Klimov’s grief-stricken elegy Larisa examines the life of his late wife.
Satan’s Playground suggests a storybook fairy tale on acid.
Daniel Burman makes lovely use of ellipses throughout, speeding the story along without sacrificing character nuance.
How far ingrained the thoughts of man before they usurp the ways of God?
The film turns the Vietnam War into a stylistic, 20th Century Foxy replay of the Hundred Years’ War.
Written, edited, and directed by the proprietor of this blog, Matt Zoller Seitz, the ensemble romantic drama Home is now available on DVD by way of Vanguard Cinema.
The film does its potential detractors a great service by wearing its plot right out on its sleeve.
Serene and subtle in its delicate effects, Frank Borzage’s Till We Meet Again is clearly the work of a fully matured artist.
The film is an uneasy mixture of classical music, sickly Technicolor, and irredeemably vulgar set decoration.
This is at once De Palma’s most slapdash and most autobiographical picture.
How does one follow-up an Oscar-nominated documentary about sexual abuse perpetrated by members of the Catholic Church?
This Saturday-morning vision is neither sweet nor complicated enough to credibly evince the mysteries and challenges of growing up.
No one will mistake Fakers for either the 1968 or 1999 edition of The Thomas Crown Affair.
Half Phantom of the Paradise, half Obsession, Carrie is hysterical in every sense of the word.
Steal from the rich, steal from the poor.
This gauzily astringent film recoils from the surfeit of technique, and pleasure takes a holiday.
It illuminates both the emotional deprivation ghetto life can perpetuate and the legit forces of good out to ease that pain.
Flip on the Independent Film Channel any day of the week, any hour, and chances are you’ll find a movie like Factotum.