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New York Film Festival 2009: Resurrecting Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno Serge Bromberg brings the never-finished disasterpiece back to haunting life
Director Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1950s' run, including The Wages of Fear and Les diaboliques, made him an international name. Inferno, his... More>>
Published: September 22, 2009
Michael Moore Is Now a Marxist for Capitalism: A Love Story But he's still selling the same old shtick
The ushers at a packed screening of Michael Moore's latest movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, came proudly decked out in T-shirts bearing slogans... More>>
Published: September 22, 2009
Chanel Hagiography Is So Last Season in Coco Before Chanel
Anne Fontaine's Coco Before Chanel gives us Belle Époque Coco, opening in 1893 with a grim scene of the 10-year-old waif and her sister... More>>
Published: September 22, 2009
John Krasinski Makes a Mess of DFW's Hideous Men
"Everything I write ends up being about loneliness," said the late writer David Foster Wallace in a 1999 interview on the radio show "Bookworm."... More>>
Published: September 22, 2009
Just Another Day in Michael Almereyda's Paradise Finding the extraordinary in the ordinary
Being trapped by a stranger's home movies might ordinarily feel akin to the Ludovico treatment from A Clockwork Orange, but director Michael... More>>
Published: September 22, 2009
Lord of the Flies Meets J. Crew Spread in The Boys Are Back
In the Oscar derby for Best Actor, is it better to die or to grieve? Clive Owen opts for the latter route in this strained, sentimental... More>>
Published: September 22, 2009
The New Fame: Sanitized Moppets Sing the Body Generic A drag-queen-less field trip to Lucky Cheng's
Baby, look at me. Gone are Leroys cornrows, short-shorts, and leg warmers: The anodyne adolescents in 25-year-old Kevin Tancharoens... More>>
Published: September 22, 2009
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell Wusses Out
Tucker Max got famous through a website detailing how being an asshole to women constantly got him laid, making him a hero to frat boys and a... More>>
Published: September 22, 2009
Mumblecore Father Henry Jaglom Trudges on with Irene in Time
Casually dismissed by those who place a premium on things like narrative, visual lucidity, and editorial smoothness, writer/director/emotional... More>>
Published: September 22, 2009
Clichés of Pandorum Get Sorta Interesting
Despite too many cheap, sound-cue scares and a slow-boil plot that veers between tension and tedium, Pandoruma dead-serious, horror/sci-fi... More>>
Published: September 22, 2009
The Blue Tooth Virgin Hates Arty Stuff, Too
For anyone who has ever hated a movie because it's too "arty" or "edgy," here comes The Blue Tooth Virgin to agree with you and argue that... More>>
Published: September 22, 2009
Surrogates: Bruce Willis is Fine; So Are Radha Mitchell's High-Heeled Acrobatics
A montage of news footage crisply introduces the not-too-distant future, where the worlds white-collar professionals live vicariously... More>>
Published: September 22, 2009
Blind Date Suffers from Restrictions of an Ode
In honor of Dutch provocateur Theo van Gogh—who was murdered in 2004 by an Islamic extremist, angered by one of his films—Van Gogh's... More>>
Published: September 22, 2009
Array of Talking Heads Line In Search of Beethoven
In Search of Beethoven plays like a good, if necessarily condensed critical biography. Drawing from archival letters, interviews with... More>>
Published: September 22, 2009
The Sometimes Riveting Infomercial The Providence Effect
Tucked in the closing credits for Rollin Binzer's documentary The Providence Effect is a line noting that all proceeds from the film will be... More>>
Published: September 22, 2009
Bright Star, an Ode to John Keats's Great Love
Set in the bucolic suburbs of early-19th-century London, as fresh and dewy as a newly mowed lawn, Jane Campion's Bright Star recounts the love... More>>
Published: September 15, 2009
Family Drama, Sans Screaming, in Claire Denis's 35 Shots of Rum
Recent American films about families, like last year's Rachel Getting Married and Revolutionary Road, all too often pierce eardrums with... More>>
Published: September 15, 2009
John Huston's Late-Career Hit, Fat City
In production, during the period when the existential road film and the hippie western represented the height of Hollywood maverick-ism, John... More>>
Published: September 15, 2009
The Informant! Gets Cute with Corporate Scandal, Blows the Story No exclamation point necessary
As evidenced by The Informant!, it's a hell of a tricky thing turning real-life pulp into floss sugar. The story of Archer Daniels Midland... More>>
Published: September 15, 2009
Coetzee's Disgrace Rendered Crisply by Anna Maria Monticelli
Dour, detached, and oozing general contempt, the professor of literature who runs afoul of post-apartheid South Africa in Australian director... More>>
Published: September 15, 2009
Paris Feels Like an Obligatory Visit
Paris, as overdocumented as any great city, still has new facets to reflect. For proof, see Claire Denis's idiosyncratically observed 35 Shots of... More>>
Published: September 15, 2009
Obviousness Staggering in The Burning Plain
Oregon restaurant manager Charlize Theron, prone to submissive promiscuity and self-inflicted violence, sits naked in bed next to her lover. A... More>>
Published: September 15, 2009
Enter Gorgeous, Outlandish Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone
Neon Genesis Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno co-directs the first in a planned tetralogy that reboots (and spiffs up with gorgeously soft-lit 3-D... More>>
Published: September 15, 2009
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Daniel Ellsberg was an ex-Marine, trusted analyst, and Cold Warrior under Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, who, "from the entrails of a... More>>
Published: September 15, 2009
Love HappensA Male Weepie
The sap pollutes the water, and then they die, florist Eloise (Jennifer Aniston) upbraids her employee on the importance of... More>>
Published: September 15, 2009
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