Film Archive: W

Andy and Larry Wachowski

• The Matrix Reloaded
• Matrix Revolutions
• Feature: Future Shock: The Death of Serious Science Fiction
• Feature: Part 5: The Return of the Auteur
• Feature: The Return of the Popcorn Circus: May 2008
• Speed Racer

Andrucha Waddington

• House of Sand (Casa de Areia)
• House of Sand (Casa de Areia)

Jeff Wadlow

• Never Back Down

Andrew Wagner

• Starting Out in the Evening
• Starting Out in the Evening

Mark Wahlberg

• News: With 'Shooter,' Wahlberg cements his place as an A-list actor
• News: 'Shooter' star likes to stay under the publicity radar

Tung Wai

• Contract Killer (sat Sau Ji Wong)

David Wain

• Wet Hot American Summer
• The Ten
• The Ten

Rupert Wainwright

• The Fog

Taika Waititi

• Eagle vs. Shark
• Eagle vs. Shark

Kanji Wakabayashi

• Kai Doh Maru

Josh Waletzky

• The Partisans of Vilna

Joshua Waletzky

• Image Before My Eyes: a History of Jewish Life in Poland Before the Holocaust

  Featured Article

  

  The film distills its photos, films, recordings, and narratives into a profoundly potent and heartrending vision of lost European Jewry.

   

Stephen Walker

• News: Young @ Heart senior singing group makes documentary
• Young@Heart

Jordan Walker-Pearlman

• The Visit

Max Wallace, Lewis Cohen

• Schmelvis: Searching for the King's Jewish Roots

Randall Wallace

• We Were Soldiers

Kieron J. Walsh

• When Brendan Met Trudy

John W. Walter

• How to Draw a Bunny

James Wan

• Feature: The PopMatters 'Short Ends & Leader' Spring Film Preview
• Saw
• Death Sentence
• News: Kevin Bacon adds a degree with 'nerd' hero of 'Death Sentence'
• Feature: Historian: Interview with Brian Garfield

Wayne Wang

• Because of Winn-dixie
• The Center of the World
• Eat a Bowl of Tea
• Last Holiday
• Last Holiday
• Maid in Manhattan
• Maid in Manhattan

Regis Wargnier

• East-West (Est-ouest)

Catherine Warnow, Regina Weinreich

• Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider

Denzel Washington

• Antwone Fisher
• Antwone Fisher
• The Great Debaters
• News: 'Deja Vu' the latest in a string of brainy, mind-bending films

Ken Watanabe

• News: Japanese star had his doubts on Eastwood's 'Iwo Jima'

Mamoru Watanabe

• Slave Widow

Daniel Waters

• Heathers & Sex and Death 101

John Waters

• Cecil B. Demented
• A Dirty Shame
• Feature: Part 3: The Stellar '70s
• Feature: Love and Frogs: Dating John Waters
• News: John Waters talks (and talks) about his subversive career

Mark Waters

• Head Over Heels
• Just Like Heaven
• Mean Girls
• Mean Girls

Mark S. Waters

• Freaky Friday
• Freaky Friday
• The Spiderwick Chronicles

Peter Watkins

• The War Game

  Featured Article

  

  The skill and imagination with which The War Game believably crafts a disaster narrative from the days and weeks immediately preceding and following a nuclear attack on Britain are such that it feels convincingly real -- a shrewd and somewhat uncharacteristic precedent for the "mockumentary" genre.

   

Cameron Watson

• Our Very Own

Keenen Ivory Wayans

• Scary Movie 2
• Scary Movie
• White Chicks

Kennen Ivory Wayans

• Little Man
• Little Man

Christina Wayne

• Tart

John Wayne

• News: Wrestling with the Duke: Love him or loathe him?

Peter Webber

• Hannibal Rising
• Girl With a Pearl Earring

Bruce Weber

• Chop Suey

David Weissman, Bill Weber

• The Cockettes

Carlos Saldanha, Chris Wedge

• Ice Age

Weerasethakul, Apichatpong

• Syndromes and a Century (Sang Sattawat)

Paul Weiland

• Feature: The Return of the Popcorn Circus: May 2008
• Made of Honor

Lance Weiler


• Head Trauma

Hans Weingartner

• The Edukators (die Fetten Jahre Sind Vorbei)

Jerry Weintraub [Ocean's Thirteen]

• News: Jerry Weintraub is the 'heart and soul' of the 'Ocean's' trilogy

Peter Weir

• The Cars That Ate Paris
• Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World
• Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World
• The Truman Show: Special Edition
• Witness: Special Collector's Edition

Sam Weisman

• Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
• What's the Worst That Could Happen?

Ellen Weissbrod

• Column: Retelling the History of Black Music: Adventures in Retro-ism

Martin Weisz

• The Hills Have Eyes 2
• The Hills Have Eyes 2

Chris Weitz

• News: Critics say 'Golden Compass' is atheist agenda disguised in fantasy
• The Golden Compass
• News: Critics say 'Golden Compass' is atheist agenda disguised in fantasy
• News: The author of 'The Golden Compass' doesn't mince words
• News: Director says initial reaction to 'Compass' hasn't been golden
• News: 'Compass' author's atheism stirs debate on film's message
• The Golden Compass

Chris and Paul Weitz

• About a Boy

Paul Weitz

• American Dreamz

Bo Welch

• Dr. Seuss' the Cat in the Hat

Orson Welles

• Citizen Kane (special Edition)
• Feature: Gone and Not Forgotten: The PopMatters DVD Wish List

William A. Wellman

• Track of the Cat: Special Collector's Edition

Audrey Wells

• Under the Tuscan Sun

Simon Wells

• The Time Machine

David Wendell

• Smut

Wim Wenders

• Don’t Come Knocking
• Don’t Come Knocking
• Feature: Wim Wenders: Merging the Infinite Via the Enigma of Cinema
• Wings of Desire (der Himmel über Berlin)

Simon West

• The General's Daughter
• Tomb Raider
• Tomb Raider
• When a Stranger Calls

Chris Wietz and Paul Wetiz

• Down to Earth

James Whale

• Feature: Part 1: Pure Classicism

Joss Whedon

• Serenity
• Serenity

Gary Wheeler

• The List

Forest Whitaker

• First Daughter
• First Daughter

Alan White

• Risk

Mike White

• Year of the Dog

Sylvain White

• Stomp the Yard

Greg Whitely

• New York Doll

John Whitesell

• Deck the Halls
• Malibu's Most Wanted
• See Spot Run

Preston A. Whitmore II

• Crossover
• This Christmas

Stephen Whittaker

• Column: Save the Drama for Your Mama

Steve Wiebe and Seth Gordon [The King of Kong]

• News: He's the 'King of Kong,' and a real-life movie star

Paul Wietz

• In Good Company

Cornel Wilde

• The Naked Prey: Criterion Collection

Billy Wilder

• Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  Sunset Boulevard is the best gothic film never made by Alfred Hitchcock. It still resonates as a comment upon our obsession with celebrity and the price that obsession exacts upon our lives and the lives of those we perpetually idolize and, on occasion, have forgotten entirely.

   
• Feature: Part 1: Pure Classicism
• Stalag 17: Special Collector's Edition
• Ace in the Hole

  PopMatters Pick

  

  While we like to think that every modern malady is new to our particular generation, a film like this reminds us that many of life's troubles have their foundation in past, not present trends.

   
• The Apartment

Gavin Wilding

• Convergence (released as Premonition)

Matt Williams

• Where the Heart Is

Tod Williams

• The Door in the Floor

Kevin Williamson

• Teaching Mrs. Tingle

Bruce Willis

• News: Mr. Cool: Bruce Willis returning to 'Die Hard' after 12 years
• News: Bruce Willis talks about the tardy return of his tough-guy alter ego

Kevin Willmott

• C.S.A.: Confederate States of America

Gary Wilson

• You Think You Really Know Me: The Gary Wilson Story

Owen Wilson

• News: Owen Wilson: Where does he go from here?

Kurt Wimmer

• Equilibrium

Gary Winick

• Charlotte's Web
• Feature: Kids' DVDs: June 2007
• Sam the Man
• The Tic Code
• 13 Going on 30
• 13 Going on 30
• Tadpole

Irwin Winkler

• Home of the Brave
• De-lovely
• De-lovely
• Life as a House

Michael Winner

• The Nightcomers
• Feature: Historian: Interview with Brian Garfield

Alex Winter

• Fever

Michael Winterbottom

• News: Kidnapped journalist's murder leads to Jolie film
• A Mighty Heart

  PopMatters Pick

  

  In images of the street and daily Karachi life, the movie finds drama that is "unfamiliar" but also crucial, suggesting the complexity of the task set before investigators in Danny's case.

   
• Feature: Monkey Business (Part 2: June)
• Feature: Super Duper Bad: The Worst Films of 2007
• A Mighty Heart
• The Claim
• Code 46
• Code 46
• In This World
• 9 Songs: Unrated Full Uncut Version
• 9 Songs
• Tristram Shandy: a Cock and Bull Story
• 24 Hour Party People

Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross

• The Road to Guantánamo
• The Road to Guantánamo

  PopMatters Pick

  

  While the movie has been termed a "docudrama" for its mix of reenactments, interviews, and archival news footage, it is not nearly so easy or easygoing about "truth" as such a label suggests. The film's complex form corresponds to its story, in the sense that "truth" is precisely what troubles it.

   

Winterfilm Collective

• Winter Soldier

  Featured Article

  

  The men in Winter Soldier stepped forward, spoke truth to power, sought to expose policies and expectations that had gone terribly wrong.

   
• Winter Soldier

Scott Wiper

• The Condemned

Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise

• Atlantis: the Lost Empire
• Atlantis: the Lost Empire

Robert Wise

• Star Trek: the Motion Picture

John Palmer, David Wiseman

• Ciao! Manhattan

Len Wiseman

• Live Free or Die Hard
• News: Bruce Willis talks about the tardy return of his tough-guy alter ego
• News: Mr. Cool: Bruce Willis returning to 'Die Hard' after 12 years
• News: If new 'Die Hard' is a hit, Timothy Olyphant can live free
• Feature: Monkey Business (Part 2: June)
• Feature: Die Hard Neocon
• Live Free or Die Hard
• Underworld
• Underworld
• Underworld: Extended Cut
• Underworld: Evolution

Alexander Witt

• Resident Evil: Apocalypse - Special Edition
• Resident Evil: Apocalypse

James L. Wolcott

• The Film Crew: Wild Women of Wongo

Konrad Wolf

• I Was Nineteen

  Featured Article

  

  In Germany during the final days of the Second World War, peace is hard won, and hatred and distrust linger as the film comes to its close. But, who is the enemy here?

   

Wallace Wolodarsky

• Sorority Boys

Wong Kar-Wai

• News: Norah Jones tries her hand at acting in 'My Blueberry Nights'
• My Blueberry Nights

James Wong

• Final Destination 3
• Final Destination
• The One

Jang San Woo

• Lies

John Woo

• Mission: Impossible 2
• Paycheck
• Paycheck
• Windtalkers
• Face/Off
• Feature: Digital Dynamite: The 30 Best DVDs of 2007

Bret Wood

• Hell's Highway: the True Story of Highway Safety

Sam Wood

• The Pride of the Yankees: Collector's Edition

Bille Woodruff

• Beauty Shop
• Honey

Rowan Woods

• Little Fish

Aaron Woolf

• King Corn
• King Corn

Mike Woolf

• Growin' a Beard

Stephen Woolley

• Stoned

William Worthington

• The Dragon Painter

Edgar Wright

• Feature: The PopMatters 'Short Ends & Leader' Spring Film Preview
• News: 'Hot Fuzz': Filmakers approve the use of deadly farce
• News: Taking aim at cop movies with 'Hot Fuzz'
• News: 'Hot Fuzz': An Over-the-top Brit-riff
• Feature: Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male
• Hot Fuzz
• News: 'Bad Boys' influenced the British makers of 'Hot Fuzz'
• Shaun of the Dead

Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg [Hot Fuzz]

• News: 'Hot Fuzz': Filmakers approve the use of deadly farce

Joe Wright

• Pride & Prejudice
• News: James McAvoy gets a big role as a man wronged in 'Atonement'
• Atonement
• News: Character is a must for 'Atonement' star Keira Knightley
• Atonement

Alice Wu

• Saving Face

William Wyler

• The Collector
• How to Steal a Million