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September 04, 2009

Screen Door Jesus (Davis, 2003)

Part Short Cuts, part Lone Star, part Saved!, with a pinch of Flannery O'Connor thrown...

August 2009

August 23, 2009

Inglorious Basterds (Tarantino, 2009)

You should know the resulting film is one where the titular Basterds are not the...

August 09, 2009

Julie & Julia (Ephron, 2009)

In fact, there may be the tiniest hint of feminine fantasy in the film's stew...

July 2009

July 26, 2009

Forgiving Dr. Mengele (Hercules, 2006)

The act of reviewing carries with it a strain of judgment, and when reviewing a...

July 26, 2009

Waltz With Bashir (Folman, 2008)

Several times while watching Waltz With Bashir I thought about the notion that by the...

July 24, 2009

The Informer (Ford, 1935)

In an interview republished in the anthology Interviews With Film Directors, Jean Mitry cites John...

July 22, 2009

Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925)

One problem, of course, with a great books (or great films) curriculum is that we...

July 18, 2009

Bigger Than Life (Ray, 1956)

The moment that caught my attention in Nicholas Ray's 1956 melodrama Bigger Than Life is...

July 16, 2009

Le petit soldat (Godard, 1963)

The main character in Le petit Soldat is tortured. At one point, in voice-over, he...

July 05, 2009

Anarchy at the Movies (Part I)

Perhaps the most unfortunate thing about Culture and Anarchy, Matthew Arnold's series of essays that...

June 2009

June 28, 2009

The Trial of Joan of Arc (Bresson, 1962)

John Donne once wrote, "I am a little world made cunningly," suggesting that the complexity...

June 28, 2009

A Man Escaped (Bresson, 1956)

In Notes on the Cinematographer, Bresson appears particularly anxious to remind himself (and us) that...

June 23, 2009

Charlie Chaplin: A King in New York

The nature of a celebrity interview is that it can be hit or miss. Surely...

June 06, 2009

Land of the Pharoahs (Hawks, 1955)

Struggle he unquestionably did. He reports both in the audio commentary and in his 1956...

June 03, 2009

The Tragedy of Hamlet (Brook, 2002)

Peter Brook has forgotten more about Shakespeare than I'll ever know, and Adrian Lester is...

May 2009

May 31, 2009

Bride & Prejudice (Chadha, 2004)

Where to start? Well, I finally understand those singing puppets in the Fandango commercials.

May 29, 2009

Up (Docter, 2009)

As such, there has always been something troubling to me about the increasing insistence of...

May 27, 2009

The Broadway Melody (1929 Best Picture Winner)

In a nutshell, a must see for cinophiles. Others might consider taking a pass.

May 24, 2009

Ingmar Bergman: (Smiles of a Summer Night, 1955)

My relationship with the films of Ingmar Bergman has been analogous to that with a...

May 19, 2009

You Can’t Take It With You (Capra, 1938)

The situation is timeless, but the setting is very much of the moment.

May 16, 2009

The Life of Emile Zola (Dieterle, 1937)

I will admit that the film has the sort of schmaltzy feel (aided by the...

May 16, 2009

Star Trek (Abrams, 2009)

I don't imagine kids running out of Abrams' movie and staring at the nighttime sky,...

May 08, 2009

The Island (Bay, 2005)

Sean Bean and McGregor get tied together through the barbs. We are all interconnected. It’s...

May 05, 2009

Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick, 1999)

I do not want to give the impression, however, that Eyes Wide Shut is only...

May 04, 2009

Love in the Afternoon (Rohmer, 1972)

The Criterion DVD had an interview with Neil Labute talking about how Rohmer influenced him,...

May 02, 2009

Julius Caesar (Houseman, 1954)

Question: What do the following actors have in common?: Jack Lemmon, Billy Crystal, Keanu Reeves,...

May 02, 2009

Lars and the Real Girl (Gillespie, 2007)

Lars and the Real Girl is a sweet film that gets a lot of emotional...

May 01, 2009

The Big Shot Caller (Rhein, 2009)

Everyone wants to to be able to lay claim to being the first to recognize...

April 2009

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

Still Walking (Koreeda, 2008)

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