April 22, 2008 – 10:45 am
We’re still complaining about mumblecore? Really?
April 17, 2008 – 11:15 am
But anything Brian DePalma’s last movie did, virtually anyone could do better.
The long-awaited comedy is finally let out of the can. And boy does it reek of old corn and cheese.
February 26, 2008 – 4:02 pm
The gorgeous Criterion version of Jean Luc-Godard’s Pierrot le Fou hits stores today. Because I’m date dyslexic, I accidentally posted my review of the film and the set a week early, but you can read it here. To get in the mood, watch the film’s original trailer above.
February 19, 2008 – 9:00 am
Jean-Luc Godard’s autobiographical masterpiece about the death of romance gets the Criterion treatment today.
February 12, 2008 – 4:05 pm
THERE WILL BE BLOOD may be the best film in competition in Berlin, but it probably won’t win.
February 8, 2008 – 2:00 pm
I made a New Year’s Resolution to watch a lot of Fassbinder movies and write about them. First up: THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT.
January 29, 2008 – 12:54 pm
Sometimes I just want a movie about identity to really be more than it seems to be. And maybe The Bourne Ultimatum is about more than we think.
January 29, 2008 – 11:00 am
Benten Films‘ second superbly-packaged DVD set (they previously released Joe Swanberg’s LOL) hits stores today. The set includes two films directed by Aaron Katz: Dance Party, USA, a kind of correction to Larry Clark’s KIDS, set in Portland and starring exquisitely natural local teens; and the Independent Spirit Award-nominated Quiet City, which I previously [...]
January 11, 2008 – 2:49 pm
In a two part series beginning at the Criterion blog and continuing on his own site, Eric Skillman breaks down part of the process of designing Criterion’s recently-released edition of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz (which was purchased for me as a Christmas gift, but which has still not arrived via Amazon, much to my [...]
