Thursday, April 12 2012
In Defense Of… The Year In Film: 2011—That’s Right, the Entire Year
The more films fail to perform at the theater, the easier it becomes to instinctively write off the entire 12 months as a whole. But 2011 wasn't all that bad, right? Right?
Thursday, February 23 2012
In Defense of Terrence Malick
Five Reasons The Tree of Life Should Win Best Picture...
Friday, August 19 2011
The 100 Essential Directors Part 6: Ernst Lubitsch to Vincente Minnelli
Today runs the gamut. Hollywood to indie art house, female perspective to male, screwball comedy to chamber drama. The odyssey from Ernst Lubitsch to Vincente Minnelli will provide illumination on how film's first special effects were used, how two brothers presciently preceded reality TV in the Hamptons, and why some directors prefer to work about once a decade on average...
Thursday, May 26 2011
“Where Will We Live?”: Terrence Malick’s Fugitive Edens
Again and again, Terrence Malick’s films rehearse, in ways both literal and figurative, one of the oldest and most abiding stories in myth and literature.
Friday, April 29 2011
The 10 Most Anticipated Movies of the Summer
Terrence Malick is the Wizard of Oz of American filmmakers, a reclusive genius who lays low for years on end, only to emerge with a new movie that zaps us right between the eyes.
Friday, October 1 2010
Pacific Hell Amid Days of Heaven: Terrence Malick’s ‘The Thin Red Line’
PopMatters' Paul Maher speaks with cast and crew about what went into Terrence Malick's million-and-a-half feet of film (250 hours) that would become The Thin Red Line (re-released on DVD by Criterion, 28 September).
Wednesday, October 1 2008
The end is here: 9-11 attacks and the new millennium revive apocalyptic movies
Thursday, December 20 2007
Days of Heaven
Malick puts the visual and aural emphasis on a vast, natural world that would be nothing more than a backdrop to the human story for most filmmakers, creating a breathtaking visual experience.
Tuesday, May 29 2007
Future Shock: The Death of Serious Science Fiction
The serious Science Fiction film genre is dead or at least on cinematic life support. As the new millennial marches forward, and an omnipresent production paradigm that substitutes spectacle for smarts, futurist filmmaking is definitely gasping for breath.
Monday, March 26 2007
Alfonso Cuaron: ‘The present, projected into the future’
Cuaron talks about Children of Men, his powerful film with explicit references to the political present.
