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April 2009

April 28, 2009

Beau Travail (Denis, 2000)

There is no way this film should be this good. A retelling of Herman Melville's...

April 28, 2009

Mogambo (Ford, 1953)

Okay, the plot is pure melodrama, but talk about star power...

April 28, 2009

Sansho The Baliff (Mizoguchi, 1954)

One mark of a newbie cinephile is that you tend to think that all world...

April 26, 2009

At the Death House Door (Gilbert and James, 2008)

I have read some responses to film that dismiss as (and for) being too politically...

April 26, 2009

Still Walking (Koreeda, 2008)

What is surprising--and delightful--about the film is how clear-eyed the portrait of the family is...

April 26, 2009

Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt, 2008)

Great art doesn't always have to have its origin in huge ideas or projects of...

April 26, 2009

Lorna’s Silence

The greatness of the brothers Dardenne is not really in dispute. It may be the...

April 26, 2009

At the Edge of the World (Stone, 2008)

As a documentary, the film is informative without being too polemical. It has a point...

April 26, 2009

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Stoller, 2008)

You either laugh or you don't. And I found the puppet Dracula musical funny. I...

April 26, 2009

Happy-Go-Lucky (Leigh, 2008)

I haven't seen this film topping many (any?) end of year lists, but it sure...

April 26, 2009

The Visitor (McCarthy, 2008)

The first thirty-five or forty minutes or so of Thomas McCarthy's The Visitor is just...

April 26, 2009

2008 Top Ten

The creation, dissemination, and response to such lists have become marked by pettiness, pomposity, and...

April 25, 2009

Three Monkeys

What little buzz I heard about Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Three Monkeys coming out of this...

April 24, 2009

Séraphine (Provost, 2008)

I can immediately think of two primary types of artist biopics. The first is largely...

April 21, 2009

Supermen of Malegaon (Khan, 2009)

When dealing with documentaries of one place (in this case Malegaon, India) for the viewing...

April 21, 2009

Peter Brook

The question that has preoccupied me since screening Peter Brook’s The Lord of the Flies...

April 19, 2009

Art & Copy (Pray, 2009)

Doug Pray’s documentary about the rise of the advertising age, replete with interviews from industry...

April 19, 2009

Wounded Knee (Nelson, 2009)

Director Stanley Nelson (perhaps best known for Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s Temple...

April 19, 2009

Salonica (Poloni, 2009)

Those accustomed to documentaries of place trying to capture a geographical location through a cross...

April 19, 2009

Mechanical Love

Phie Ambo's Mechanical Love kicked off this year's Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The two...

April 19, 2009

Bella (Monteverde, 2006)

When you judge a movie as cultural artifact or sociopolitical argument, I guess, you often...

April 18, 2009

The Servant (Losey, 1963)

If you enter the terms "servant," "losey," and "creepy" into the Google search engine, you...

April 18, 2009

Claude Chabrol

Claude Chabrol, who is still alive and still working, has seventy-one directorial film credits listed...

April 18, 2009

Camp Diaries (Noland, 2009)

I asked Noland about the title of his film and specifically why he chose the...

April 18, 2009

Documentary Film and the Power of Empathy

A look at some of the best films of the 2008 Full Frame Documentary Film...

April 18, 2009

The Bitter Tea of Mister Capra

People in Capra films--and I'm including the Why We Fight series in this assertion--have high...

April 18, 2009

Owning the Weather (Greene, 2009)

If one proverbial mark of a good narrative film is three good scenes and no...

April 18, 2009

Forgetting Dad (Minnich, 2008)

Forgetting Dad is a beautiful, melancholy, and deeply compassionate film...

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