Thursday, January 24 2008
Gone and Not Forgotten: The PopMatters DVD Wish List
A lot of good movies are still missing from DVD. Here is a list of 25 that PopMatters feels have been unceremoniously left to simply fade away.
Monday, May 16 2005
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou: Criterion Collection (2004)
'That's what the movie's sort of about,' observes Wes Anderson, 'self-invention, and making their own art, and all those things.'"
Friday, December 10 2004
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
Wes Anderson's film and Steve's filmed life creak a little, exposing seams and efforts to make sense of experience.
Sunday, January 1 1995
Pollock (2000)
This is the tragedy and romanticized allure of Jackson Pollock, the man: he grew physically, he grew creatively, but he never grew up emotionally.
Pollock (2000)
Where the story of Pollock's life gets, at least to me, most interesting, and where the film 'Pollock' becomes most engaging, is in the connected story of the artist's wife, Lee Krasner.
But I’m a Cheerleader (2000)
The cultural systems that condone more subtle forms of homophobia are left unexamined. This allows viewers to forget the important fact that homophobia and strict either-or gendering practices do prevail in today's 'civilized' cultures, liberal and tolerant as they may seem to those who don't have to worry about such things.
But I’m a Cheerleader (2000)
Though behaving like proper girls and boys has little effect on Megan and the other patients, they still pretend that they are actually heading down the path to heterosexuality.
