Trash, art, and the movies.
The advent of season-by-season television on DVD was a beautiful thing. Indeed, it has sparked a minor revolution in the way people watch TV and they way they view it. If anything, the ability to to devour a season of television at your own pace like a good (or not-so-good) novel has led…
A strange thing happened after opening weekend as studio generated buzz seeped into the advertising campaign. Suddenly (and supposedly) every one was talking about the twist ending for “The Skeleton Key.” For someone riding the fence on whether or not to see this film, I took the bait…
“Closer” is one of the most brilliantly-written films I’ve seen in a long time. It’s a film where the characters’ lives revolve around using sex to hurt each other, but (aside from a rather humorous “conversation”…
Antarctica, with its vast ranges of white, cliffs of ice, and frozen, deep blue, is an awe-inspiring place. My gratitude goes to the film makers who were insanely ambitious enough to brave this weather so that I need not. The cinematography, directed by Laurent Chalet and Jerome Maison, is the most remarkable documentary footage I have seen. Perhaps…
Mamoru Oshii has transcended the boundary of strict narrative. The conventional westerner will pay attention to the laborious, and at times detached, dialogue that is typical of sci-fi and noir. One might hear a line about dog food, and mistakenly think the…
“Just because you eat the burger doesn’t mean you want to meet the cow,” says McCord (Steve Buscemi) when attempting to explain to the innocent Jordan Two-Delta (Scarlett Johansson) and Lincoln Six-Echo (Ewan McGregor) the world that benefits from their existence might not want to know…
CHRISTIAN BALE stars as Batman in Warner Bros. Pictures’ action adventure “Batman Begins.” Rachel Dawes:…
Of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, Pauline Kael wrote: The movie’s confusing — and, finally,…