TCMFF continues to valiantly pursue the preservation of Hollywood film history.
This is the closest Kitano Takeshi is ever likely to come to making a full-fledged musical, and it’s a great one at that.
The screener ban didn’t last for long and didn’t seem to do much damage, and come Oscar time, indies may walk away with several big prizes.
The film wants to laugh at all the bloody gore and T&A on display, but to still leave plenty of bloody gore and T&A on display.
Twisted is too afraid to intimately probe the sticky relationship between sex and violence.
The media circus surrounding Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ threatens to overwhelm the movie itself.
The revolution didn’t break the backbone of a naïve Cuban population, it merely put an end to interracial shagging.
The film is an informative and emotional testimonial to Haitian radio personality Jean Dominique.
The illustrious cast can’t elevate the film’s depressingly simple-minded characterization of politics as nasty and shallow.
The film exists in a void where Road Trip and Old School are the virtual Adam and Eve of movie creation.
It’s tough being a drama queen, but try telling that to the people responsible for this film.
Liquids become the motif d’abus of the film: water, blood, vomit, sweat, oil, urine, humidity, and paint.
Luchino Visconti’s overuse of superfluous zoom-lens trickery suggests that he was barely in control of his own worst impulses.
There’s a great Jonathan Demme movie waiting to bust out of Rain Man
Happily and ridiculously over the top, Secret Things is a war of anarchic, sexual primitivism.
Narratively, each short may be articulated differently, but alienation is the common thread.
The film teems with a palpable sense of terror and outrage.
Consider Sitcom a work of corrective sexual politics.
Stone Reader is a humanitarian effort, but Mark Moskowitz’s preening and cloying voiceover can wear on the nerves.
The film’s charm and compassion is repeatedly drowned out by completely lowbrow distractions.
It’s rather like watching zee Frenchman kick zee puppy poodle for an hour and a half.