Thursday, April 30 2009
Summer of Same: August 2009
With names like Tarantino, Lee, and Zombie, the final month of the season pulls out all the film geek stops. Still, the only guarantee is familiarity, not freshness.
Wednesday, February 27 2008
2 Days in Paris
Well at least these two characters have one thing in common: they’re both grateful the other’s an elitist, New York hipster.
Thursday, January 10 2008
All Around the World: The Best International/Indie Films of 2007
Beginning and ending with the superlative filmmaking of Jia Zhang-ke, traversing the nooks and crannies of the globe, PopMatters presents the 20 best international and indie films of 2007.
Friday, August 10 2007
2 Days in Paris
This mostly comic study of two people coming apart is by turns lumpy and lovely, perverse and prosaic.
Wednesday, November 8 2006
Joyeux Noël (2005)
"Strange-But-True: Stray Cat Executed for Espionage" and other hard to believe events in the trenches of World War I.
Wednesday, March 22 2006
Joyeux Noël (2005)
Certainly few war zones would allow for such communal religious touchstones, given that religious belief is more often than not the impetus for war.
Joyeux Noël (2005)
Certainly few war zones would allow for such communal religious touchstones, given that religious belief is more often than not the impetus for war.
Friday, August 19 2005
The Edukators (Die Fetten Jahre Sind Vorbei) (2004)
The Edukators see the executive's wealth as a kind of state-sanctioned violence, as it's only achieved by the poverty of others.
Thursday, April 1 2004
Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)
In Good Bye, Lenin! the world is awakened to new possibilities but Alex forces a social blindness on his mother.
