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Articles tagged "anjelica huston" Column: The Box Office BelletristChok(ing) Onscreen and In Printby Jennifer Makowsky[31.Mar.09] :. Whether served up on the page or on the screen, this is an intimate assessment of a twisted mother/son relationship with plenty of sardonic humor and scathing satire.  Film DVD ReviewChokeby Stuart Henderson[23.Mar.09] :. Palahniuk loves our disillusionment, or hates it enough to understand just exactly how it operates, and in what darkened corners of our cities and towns it is made manifest.  PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 FeatureTough and Tender - The Top 20 Female Performances of 2008by PopMatters Staff[14.Jan.09] :. Twenty talented ladies, 20 performances worthy of multiple little gold men. Unfortunately, as in all years, someone has to come out on top. But after looking over this impressive list, picking the preeminent turn of 2008 seems almost impossible. PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008  Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs FeatureCinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 2by PopMatters Staff[14.Oct.08] :. Day Two - A demanding Decalogue overflowing with everything: from fascinating international fare, misbegotten masterworks, some out of the blue bafflers, and that seminal show about “nothing”. Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs  Film ReviewChokeby Cynthia Fuchs[26.Sep.08] :. If Choke isn’t the first movie where a young narrator's self-pity, obsessiveness, and desperation are blamed on his mother, it is one of the more emphatic versions.  The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview FeatureTalk, Talk, Talk: September 2008by Bill Gibron[9.Sep.08] :. From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one. The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview The Return of the Popcorn Circus: August 2008by Bill Gibron[1.May.08] :. Talk about a crowded schedule. There are more offerings scheduled this month than in the previous two combined. The Darjeeling Limitedby Kirby Fields[22.Feb.08] :. At last, as in the final scene taken by a camera fixed to the exterior of a train as it clickety-clacks forward, the countryside speeding by, the rails extending into the distance, we can see that Wes Anderson is back on track. A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007by PopMatters Staff[11.Jan.08] :. From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007. Martian Childby Cynthia Fuchs[2.Nov.07] :. Based on David Gerrold's semi-autobiographical novella, the movie digs its thematic hole early, and never finds a way out. Owen Wilson: Where does he go from here?by Christopher Kelly [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][18.Oct.07] :. A little more than an hour through Wes Anderson’s new comedy-drama “The Darjeeling Limited,” Owen Wilson—playing Francis, one of three brothers on a spiritual journey across... The Darjeeling Limitedby Cynthia Fuchs[17.Oct.07] :. Patricia (Anjelica Huston) serves multiple purposes in The Darjeeling Limited, not least being the grail her children seek. Art School Confidential (2006)by Matt Mazur[10.Oct.06] :. While director Terry Zwigoff seemed to have held the patent on this sort of offbeat tone in his past work, his kooky rudeness is his undoing, here Material Girls (2006)by Cynthia Fuchs[22.Aug.06] :. "What a tragedy," says Inez, when the sisters complain about riding the city bus. "Right up there with the national debt." Art School Confidential (2006)by Cynthia Fuchs[8.May.06] :. As much as Jerome's harsh appraisals of his peers and teachers appear to be warranted, Art School Confidential doesn't exactly endorse his aspirations. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou: Criterion Collection (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[16.May.05] :. 'That's what the movie's sort of about,' observes Wes Anderson, 'self-invention, and making their own art, and all those things.'" The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[10.Dec.04] :. Wes Anderson's film and Steve's filmed life creak a little, exposing seams and efforts to make sense of experience. Daddy Day Care (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[8.May.03] :. Too many scenes (and far too many montages) seem in slow motion, even though they involve kids moving at something approximating warp-speed. The Golden Bowl (2000)by Cynthia FuchsAdam (Nick Nolte) is introduced on screen with the title, 'America's First Billionaire' (this is the level of overstatement to which the film resorts repeatedly, not trusting its audience to follow even the simplest plot points). Agnes Browne (2000)by Cynthia FuchsBack in 1990, some years after Prizzi's Honor won Anjelica Huston all kinds of accolades and publicity, I saw her for a minute, in person. I was standing on line at an American Express office in Cannes, during the Film Festival for which she was serving as an official jury member" |
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