The most interesting sight in Baltasar Kormakur THE SEA comes right at the beginning. That would be fire engines contending with reindeer blocking the road as they race to a factory fire. It confirms the setting, Iceland, as a country with its own particular set of quirks, including rams roaming free in retail establishments before… Read More »
CHOPPER
Before he was the geek turned unjolly green giant in THE HULK, before he was part of the hapless band of soldiers storming Mogadishu in BLACK HAWK DOWN, Eric Bana turned in a dazzling performance as the most personable psychopath you can imagine in CHOPPER. Fortunately for Bana and for us, the Sundance Channel will… Read More »
SEABISCUIT
If you are very lucky, who wont know anything about Seabiscuits story so that this remarkable true tale can unfold for you in all its improbable glory. Gary Ross adaptation of Laura Hillenbrands bestseller, also titled Seabiscuit, is a heartwarming, uplifting experience and while such adjectives are not usually paired with films that are also… Read More »
SECRET LIVES OF DENTISTS, THE
Time in the Alan Rudolph universe doesn’t flow the same was as it does in the one that you and I inhabit. It lopes along, telescoping events and worrying little about the standard rules of pacing. This can be a good thing when it comes to examing the complexities of human interaction, as in AFTERGLOW,… Read More »
THIRTEEN
There is a menace to Catherine Hardwickes THIRTEEN. The reason is that the fall from grace and sobriety experienced by its lead character, Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood), is one that she eagerly embraces with all the reckless passion and aching desperation that only a thirteen-year-old can harbor. Hardwicke, setting her story squarely in the real… Read More »
PARTY MONSTER
For some people, reality is a choice and they would rather not. Why be an office drone when you can be a star, even if it’s only for a night and in a dress made of toilet paper? This was the thinking behind the Club Kids scene and the backdrop for one of New York’s… Read More »
LOST IN TRANSLATION
With LOST IN TRANSLATION, writer/director Sofia Coppola lives up to the promise of the potential she exhibited in GODFATHER III. This tedious vanity piece is enlivened only by the charm of its leading man, Bill Murray, and by the astonishingly haphazard way in which the film as a whole appears to have been slapped together. Murray plays… Read More »
demonlover
The French have brought us many wonderful things: Voltaire, Manet, brioche. But it pays to remember that they as a people worship Jerry Lewis and Mickey Rourke. They also have no clue about producing even semi-decent rock music. I bring this up because I’ve just seen Olivier Assayas’ demonlover and the experience left me asking… Read More »
CHAC: THE RAIN GOD
Long unavailable to its legion of fans, CHAC THE RAIN GOD, made by Rolando Klein and released 1975, has been issued in a superb DVD edition by Milestone. It’s about time. This tale of pilgrimage, ritual and sacrifice in a Maya village in the Mexican wilderness has a magic and a wonder that few films achieve. The story… Read More »
CASA DE LOS BABYS
The subject of any John Sayles film, no matter what the specific topic, is the complexity of life. And so it is with CASA DE LOS BABYS, a film that ranks among his best efforts. It’s a film of beautifully intertwined stories all surrounding a group of six American women who have come to an… Read More »
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