Features
Monday, October 4 2004
Ghost World
The irony of Washington, DC, repository of the nation's nostalgia, is that it is has no sense of its own past. For those who come, living here is just something that you have to do to get to where you eventually want to go. No one who stays is anyone of real power.
Thursday, May 13 2004
The 18th Annual Washington, DC International Film Festival
This year's Filmfest DC, the 18th, was mild cause for excitement among locals and hardly at all for international cinephiles. Thus, it seems, it will always be for a film festival located in the capital, where the national soap opera invariably drowns out everything in its radius.
Thursday, May 22 2003
17th Annual Washington, D.C. International Film Festival
Less a curated collection than an eclectic grab bag, the films defied audience expectations and easy categories, even the ones its organizers devised.
Columns
Wednesday, September 24 2008
Living in Ghost World: Washington, DC
With US Presidential candidates vying for the best seat in the White House in mind, we revist an essay on what living in DC is like for the common man.
Reviews
Monday, August 9 2004
Millennium Mambo (2003)
A filmmaker fixated on the continuing past, Hou has become the foremost chronicler of our mortality.
Thursday, December 4 2003
The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
Sylvain Chomet's first feature is a doggedly strange, if effortlessly whimsical, movie that fuses vaguely recognizable elements to form an exceedingly alien universe.
Monday, November 17 2003
Once Upon a Time in the West: Special Collector's Edition (1968)
Sergio Leone never met a portentous entrance he didn't like.
Thursday, October 23 2003
Carnages (2002)
Carnages' denizens spin into each other's orbits and offer the prospect of communion and regeneration.
Thursday, October 9 2003
In This World (2002)
Attempting to put a human face on the refugee crisis, Winterbottom puts a premium on legibility.
