August 29th, 2008 |
The Savages
Estranged siblings Jon and Wendy Savage (Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney) are forced to care for their aging and increasingly senile father when the woman he lives with dies, leaving him without a home. This is not a particularly exciting proposition to anyone involved - both siblings are playwrights (Jon much more successfully [...]
August 27th, 2008 |
David Bordwell is always worth reading, but he put up a post a couple of weeks ago that’s highly entertaining as well as informative, about the way cinephiles interact with each other. He starts off separating cinephiles from cinemaniacs - based on his definitions, I’m not sure which category I fit into. I’m going to [...]
August 14th, 2008 |
Leaving New York for London with Match Point revitalized Woody Allen’s career in 2005; now he picks up shop again, this time seeking inspiration in Spain. And again, the move does him good, as Vicky Cristina Barcelona evokes, though perhaps does not quite equal, his greatest triumphs. Best friends Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett [...]
July 27th, 2008 |
I’m being arbitrary once again with my definition of “independent.” In this category, I’m going to include a) indie or non-mainstream films that are not new releases, like the first two films below, and b) new release films that are truly small films, i.e., did not get a lot of studio publicity and a wide [...]
July 22nd, 2008 |
I admit to choosing who gets to be a “great director” with some level of arbitrariness. Generally, it’ll be directors whose oevre I’m trying to work through, thus reviews/reactions in this category will end up being something of a series as I watch more and more films by a given director. This time I’m lumping [...]
July 21st, 2008 |
All of these films were released on DVD in the past few months. However, just because a film was just released on DVD doesn’t mean I’ll review it as a New DVD if it also fits in some other category. Some of the films I watched that came on DVD in March or April I’ve [...]
June 11th, 2008 |
I’m going to stop doing the monthly recap posts and instead try to write reviews/reactions more consistently throughout the month. Since I haven’t actually posted on anything I’ve watched since February, I need to do a few catch-up posts, which I’ve decided to separate into film categories (New Releases, New DVDs, World Cinema, Great Directors, [...]
May 27th, 2008 |
If you aren’t at least a little bit charmed by The Young Girls of Rochefort, you are a hopeless cynic.
(Sorry, couldn’t find any good clips with English subtitles, and not even this trailer has them, but trust me, whatever they’re saying isn’t important. The first ten minutes of music and dancing and almost no talking [...]
