Tuesday, March 24 2009
Part 2: The Virgin Suicides to The Blair Witch Project (May - August 1999)
In Part Two of our look at the most memorable films of 1999, we experience music, foul-mouthed mayhem, and a late, great auteur's final cinematic statement.
Friday, March 6 2009
American Experience: The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer’s inability to influence people would come to haunt him, and shape the nuclear policy of the world in ways that still reverberate through today’s headlines.
Friday, January 30 2009
The Uninvited
The sex-with-daddy business serves as an underpinning to Anna's fundamental trauma.
Thursday, August 28 2008
My Blueberry Nights
Wong's films are structured around images of characters in repose, of interactions weighted with desire, and of individual memory and fantasy.
My Blueberry Nights
In Blueberry Nights, attractions are premised on separate losses, cultivations of similar heartaches, and delights in desserts.
Friday, February 15 2008
The Spiderwick Chronicles
No matter how admirable the girl with expertise in fencing or spunky the twins played by Freddy Highmore, this movie is about bad dads.
Friday, January 11 2008
A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007
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.
