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Repulsion

by Matt Mazur

[14.Aug.09] :. This is the culmination of two artists upping their personal antes to produce greatness, two burgeoning legends of cinema testing their seemingly-limitless powers.

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Outside the Lines - The Top 20 International/Indie Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[15.Jan.09] :. With many indie/international films receiving more and more mainstream approval from unfamiliar audiences, many of the titles here could be considered part of the overall 2008 Best Of. But their individuality and multicultural appeal keep them a quality concept apart.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

Iconic - The Top 20 Male Performances of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[14.Jan.09] :. Like the gladiators of old, 2008 resembles a battle of formidable acting gods, especially when looking over the 20 choices presented below. Indeed, if anything, choosing a winner requires more of a leap of faith than any amount of critical skill - they all were that good.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

 

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

Tough and Tender - The Top 20 Female Performances of 2008

by 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

 

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

Off the Radar - The Top 30 DVDs of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Jan.09] :. Oddly enough, while the major studios continue scratching their heads over how to sell yet another new format (Blu-ray) to disinterested consumers, several outside distributors made sure that this would be a digital year to remember.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

 

Column: Worlds in Panels

Capturing the Abstract in the Concrete

by Shaun Huston

[16.Dec.08] :. What do the worlds contained within comics, within and between panels, tell us about the worlds in which we live out our lives?

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Dying on the Mind: ‘A Christmas Tale’ and ‘House of the Sleeping Beauties’

by Chris Barsanti

[14.Nov.08] :. In the moody House of the Sleeping Beauties, an aging widower fights despair with a succession of naked beauties, while in the sprawling A Christmas Tale, a family bickers around their mother’s terminal illness.

 

Persepolis

by Marisa LaScala

[8.Jul.08] :. This story reaches across barriers in language and experience to viewers who have never suffered exile.

 

Daughter of the revolution tells her animated tale in ‘Persepolis’

by Colin Covert [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[17.Jan.08] :. Writer, artist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi grew up in Iran, living through the Shah’s regime, the revolution that overthrew him, and the establishment of the theocratic government that...

 

A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007

by 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.

 

Persepolis

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Jan.08] :. Personal and political history is delivered with a sharp mix of comedy and tragedy (Marjane lies in bed, the "camera" hovering overhead as she declares herself a communist after learning her grandfather was jailed for same).

 

YSL? Why not?

by Raphaël Costambeys-Kempczynski

[15.Jun.07] :. For Yves Saint-Laurent, clothes are a way of life and not a way of dressing; you may be wearing the most anodyne of dresses, but if you walk with one hand in your pocket then you create a mind-set.

 

Changing Times (2004)

by Emma Simmonds

[27.Oct.06] :. Changing Times consistently rings true. It is gripping, thoughtful and concise.

 

Yves Saint-Laurent: His Life and Times (2004)

by Vince Carducci

[23.Mar.05] :. As much as he ostensibly seems to be in denial about it, Saint-Laurent did bring a new level of aesthetic consciousness to segments of the consumer market where it hadn't before been.

 

A Talking Picture (2003)

by Lester Pimentel

[21.Jan.05] :. A Talking Picture is marked lamentably by self-congratulation, cultural pretension, and Islamophobia.

 

I’m Going Home (2001)

by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece

[2.Sep.03] :. Explores the ageless, ceaseless, and fruitless desire to find a place of peace.

 

8 Women (2002)

by Elbert Ventura

[19.Sep.02] :. Sabotaging the happy play of color, song, and glamour with a deeply felt despair, Ozon has finally made his subversiveness genuinely surprising.

 

I’m Going Home (2001)

by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece

[22.Aug.02] :. I'm Going Home not only retains its heart, but expands it until the film's emotional power is almost too much to handle.

 

The Musketeer (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Instead of being innovative, 'The Musketeer' is appropriative and (save for the very clever fight scenes), straight-up insipid.

 

Dancer in the Dark (2000)

by Todd R. Ramlow

'Dancer in the Dark', for all its fantastical musical excursions and all its tear-jerkiness nevertheless brings home the sobering reminder that justice does not always prevail.

 

Dancer in the Dark (2000)

by Lucas Hilderbrand

It seems only a film as schizophrenic as 'Dancer in the Dark' would suit Björk, what with its melancholic moments of quiet and curious explosions of sound.