Unlike One Cut of the Dead, this ode to low-budget resourcefulness often rings false.
Michel Hazanavicius co-opts Jean-Luc Godard’s personal life for cheap prestige-picture sentiment.
Jerusalem Film Festival 2017: Siege, Redoubtable, The Beguiled, On the Beach at Night Alone, & More
Jerusalem is a city of beige and tan, a vast barren sprawl that is, despite the brutal heat and muted colors, quite beautiful.
With Redoubtable, Hazanavicius co-opts Godard’s personal life for cheap prestige-picture sentiment.
Hazanavicius takes on the horrors of war in this remake of Fred Zinnemann’s 1948 film The Search
Will the Academy really go for a star-free, Sendak-esque allegory, whose rugged charms are tied to its loose lack of answers?
Haters gonna hate, but as Sony’s excellent Blu-ray proves, The Artist keeps on charming through the backlash.
Sometimes it’s hard to separate a movie from the hype.
When it comes to film editing, marveling at how rhythmically one shot feeds another is hardly sufficient in predicting an Oscar winner.
So it is that the one year we didn’t stick to our frilliest-always-wins guns here, we came up short.
Less a race than a ping-pong match, this year’s battle for Best Director has shifted favor from an obvious lock to a popular spoiler and back again.
At the risk of milking a joke whose teets have been sore for weeks, The Artist’s musical score will do just fine without Kim Novak’s vote.
Bridesmaids is just glad to be invited, no? A “memorable” quote from the film according to IMDb: “You’re like the maid of dishonor.”
This category is historically a haven for the quirk, verve, and humor that can’t quite crack the tougher races.
The directing race has boiled down to nine names, four of which you can pretty safely etch into stone.
Since The Artist’s ubiquity is even growing tedious for those who kneel at its grayscale altar, let’s just stick to the facts.
This season presents two Oscar contenders, Hugo and The Artist, that both bask in the dreaminess of cinema’s early days.
No film this year is poised to collect more Academy Award nominations than Michel Hazanavicius’s silent movie about the silent era.
The Artist is scarcely a patch on what Guy Maddin can do on a bad day.
With The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius stretches a feather-light gimmick to feature-length.