Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
The climactic confrontation illustrates Mikio Naruse’s talent for concluding his films on an ideal, though rarely contented, final note.
Self-reflexivity can only take a film and its makers so far.
It’s a film haunted by death, with lengthy sequences played out in cemeteries, and small details show Hitchcock’s dark-humored view of the world.
I bet you thought I’d go from unpacking Hepburn’s ying to examining George Peppard’s ying-a-ling
As the saying goes, those who died quickly were the lucky ones.
Screenwriter Richard Price writes for actors with a capital A, delighting in character-driven monologues that offer bang for their buck.
Army of Shadows extends Melville’s pessimism even further than is customary.
To spend time at Disney parks is to roam inside the American mind, for better or worse.
More awkward than the film’s plagiaristic qualities is its clumsy alternation between frank human drama and hand-drawn daydreams.
No man is a desert—or so this flat documentary by François Kohler would have us believe.
Munich isn’t simply about vengeance, the whole eye-for-an-eye thing, though that’s certainly topic “A.”
Should the film connect with the public, we may be doomed to seeing similar such imports for years to come..
Amazing stuff, particularly the details about the red wolf and the ivory billed woodpecker.
As you may have heard, the New York Press, which publishes my weekly column, has once again lost the top of its masthead.
Is it fair to say that the language of philosophy is more or less writ in the manner of Final Jeopardy?
The cumulative effect, when cut together, is that of a connective circle of experience.
Amid this shallow, vulgar morass of cultural stereotypes and racial epithets, Paul Walker reconfirms his status as filmdom’s preeminent hunky cipher.
It’s hard to imagine any amount of directorial dexterity or pertinent subtextual commentary salvaging Firewall.
This one is for the Malick-heads.
To simply label Sorry, Haters misguided or preposterous is to undersell its out-of-its-gourd daffiness.