Night Across the Street too often degenerates into long perorations or overworked metaphors.
It’s both unfair and too easy to shake out predictions for this category based on what is most likely to appeal to the Kindle Fire set.
The Academy rarely passes up the chance to gush over black-and-white lensing.
See below for a list of the films that just missed making it onto our list of the best films of 2011, followed by our contributors’ individual ballots.
Seattle International Film Festival 2011: Neptune Renovations and Mysteries of Lisbon
by Sean Axmaker
Raúl Ruiz’s Mysteries of Lisbon is a film of exquisite elegance.
Mysteries of Lisbon plays as an endlessly compelling juggling act.