Remember when your mother used to tell you that, if you made faces and somebody hit you, your face might get stuck?
Let’s go back to the first film for a minute.
The summer keeps going as we talk shop with Robert Greene and his new documentary Fake It So Real.
The first glimpse into what Anthony Gonzalez describes as his most “epic” album to date paints a clear portrait of an artist re-engergized and at the height of his creative capabilities.
Silent cinema was uniquely suited to shooting in extreme conditions.
David Yates seems to want the film to capture the excitement of the moment but also to strike up nostalgia for all that has gone before.
Narrative structure is one of the steadiest elements of the Harry Potter films.
Its sacrifice of narrative cohesion in favor of pushing aesthetic and expressive boundaries has rubbed some fans the wrong way.
Perhaps David Yates recognized that, at this point in the series, addressing the full-scale detail and themes of the story at large would not be feasible
There is a defining contradiction at the center of Mr. Fix-It.
The hokey representations on display here tend not to mesh with the scope of the tournament games.
Peter Hyams’s Running Scared is one of the finest examples of The Jungle Fever Cookie Buddy Movie.
Alfonso Cuarón’s aesthetic seems perfectly suited to the narrative, which focuses on Harry’s near-despondent state.
To his credit, Chris Columbus attempts to add deeper visual dimension to this sequel.
It’s quite a surprise to hear the surfy members of Real Estate take a feather duster to their garage-bound instruments.
The forum side of the festival produced as much intellectual stimulation as hot air, as is usual with such round tables.
Few film franchises have been more constitutive of the modern movie spectacle (and the digital age of cinema) than Harry Potter.
Pina Menichelli is the very ideal of the diva in Il Fuoco
The biggest film history news of 2010 was without a doubt the discovery of Upstream.
Second only to Leone, Sergio Corbucci is the king of the spaghetti western.