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

The New Classics - The 30 Best Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[16.Jan.09] :. Unlike previous years, where classics came crawling out of the celluloid woodwork with regular reckless abandon, 2008 was more calm… and considered. That's not to say that choosing 30 top titles was hard. The difficulty in placing them in some manner of rank order suggests the actual depth of quality involved.

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

Film Review

Blindness

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Oct.08] :. If its political metaphor is plain, the aesthetic allusions are more intriguing, as Blindness works to show what can't be shown, to find a visual language for what's not visual.

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Column: The Screener

In the Land of the Blind

by Chris Barsanti

[3.Oct.08] :. Fernando Meirelles’ adaptation of Jose Saramago’s Blindness fails because the source material doesn’t easily lend itself to cinema, and because the filmmaker is clearly out of his depth.

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Short Ends and Leader

Fable Feels ‘Blind’ to its Own Illogic

by Bill Gibron

[2.Oct.08] :. Before Star Wars, serious science fiction survived on the allegorical. Take a typical situation, instill it with some sort of out of this world premise, and watch as humanity races toward its...

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008

by 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

Film DVD Review

Be Kind Rewind

by Andrew Gilstrap

[19.Jun.08] :. Uneven and a little muddled, Be Kind Rewind might be a prime candidate for the very fan remixing it portrays.

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Indie icon John Sayles doesn’t hesitate to go mainstream if it helps his pet causes

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

[22.Feb.08] :. An acclaimed and prolific independent film director (“Matewan,” “Lone Star”), novelist (“Los Gusanos,” “Union Dues”), and script doctor (“Apollo...

For ‘Be Kind Rewind’ co-star Danny Glover, it’s all about community

by Rick Bentley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[21.Feb.08] :. The normally soft-spoken Danny Glover begins to raise his voice. He’s not mad. Glover is just trying to be heard over the clatter that is going on behind him. Glover’s young grandson has...

‘Honeydripper’ a blues project for John Sayles

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[7.Feb.08] :. John Sayles’ latest film, “Honeydripper” - his 16th, if you’re keeping track - is set in 1950 Alabama, in a little town emblematic of the big changes happening all around. On...

Honeydripper

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Feb.08] :. John Sayles' Honeydripper is less a conventional film than a bluesy collaboration -- slow-moving and contemplative, wily and laced through with cultural nuances.

Aristide and the Endless Revolution (2005)

by Chadwick Jenkins

[15.Jun.07] :. This documentary consistently utilizes Aristide as a prism through which to glimpse the horrifying contradictions and turbulences that suffuse Haitian society.fr

agoDreamgirls (2006)

by Iquo B. Essien

[10.May.07] :. An undeniably fun ride, albeit with too much restraint here, too over-the-top there.

Shooter (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Mar.07] :. While Swagger describes himself modestly, he's also one of those highly trained government instruments whose post-trauma mission in life is vengeance.

Dreamgirls (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Dec.06] :. The decidedly uneven score embraces the music of its moment, from soul to Motown to pop to disco, all filtered through Broadway, which means it's all too watery and white.

Manderlay (2005)

by Jesse Hicks

[10.Feb.06] :. Lars Von Trier resists few opportunities to deride the capitalist system that breeds a permanent underclass of wage slaves.

Witness: Special Collector’s Edition (1985)

by Nikki Tranter

[14.Sep.05] :. Bemused at times, Detective John Book is nonetheless captivated by the Amish community's simplicity, its decency, and its ability to thrive despite its antiquities.

Predator 2: Special Edition (1990)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Jan.05] :. According to director Stephen Hopkins, 'Los Angeles, with all its glare and dust, felt like a Western town to us, sort of a mining town that had been shoved up really quickly.'"

Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election (2003)

by Jennifer D. Wesley

[1.Nov.04] :. Under these conditions, the film suggests, another Florida is not only likely, but probable.

Saw (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Oct.04] :. Detective Tapp's convoluted weirdness is attributable to Danny Glover's resourcefulness, since the script doesn't know quite what to do with him.

The Cookout (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Sep.04] :. The sports reporters are upset: if Todd's not going to fit a stereotype, what good is he?"

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

by Lucas Hilderbrand

It is The Royal Tenenbaums's hyperbole that both makes the fantasy so lively and reveals the self-delusions at its foundation.