Articles tagged "ethan hawke"

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 5: Toy Story 2 to Titus (November - December 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[27.Mar.09] :. On this final day of PopMatters' 1999 overview, awards season hype gives way to pure acting prowess and definitive directorial flair.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs Feature

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 2

by PopMatters Staff

[14.Oct.08] :. Day Two - A demanding Decalogue overflowing with everything: from fascinating international fare, misbegotten masterworks, some out of the blue bafflers, and that seminal show about “nothing”.

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs

Film DVD Review

Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

by Matthew Sorrento

[5.Jun.08] :. What a quirky pair of brothers do Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke make.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

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.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

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Sidney Lumet knows how to get some satisfaction

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[9.Nov.07] :. “It’s not one of your average feel-good movies,” says Sidney Lumet with a satisfied grin, speaking of his latest—the ferociously dark, wildly entertaining, “Before the...

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Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Oct.07] :. Family tensions run high throughout Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.

The Hottest State

by Cynthia Fuchs

[31.Aug.07] :. For a film set mostly inside one character's head, The Hottest State spends a lot of time on the road.

Monkey Business (Part 4: August)

by Bill Gibron

[4.May.07] :. In past years, Hollywood purposely counter programmed these renowned Cineplex dog days, trying to offset the perception that cinematic scraps were all the studios had to offer. From the look of this lame list, it's apparently back to the filmic fridge for some patently warmed over offerings.

Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (2006)

by Brian Holcomb

[8.Mar.07] :. This was never intended to be a conventional movie, but more like a personal industrial film illustrating the process that brings the corpse of a cow to your dinner table.

Fast Food Nation (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Nov.06] :. Unabashedly didactic, Fast Food Nation points out the cruel lot of immigrant laborers without rights.

Lord of War (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Sep.05] :. As Yuri plainly gets off on risk, he's also broadly representative of cavalier attitudes toward risk concerning vulnerable individuals and communities.

Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Jan.05] :. What still works is the edgy distrust-into-respect that develops between the killer and the cop.

Before Sunset (2004)

by Michael Healey

[2.Jul.04] :. Before Sunset illustrates the beautiful and frustrating complexity of human hearts seeking love and meaning in a life we know to be transient.

Taking Lives (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Mar.04] :. In Taking Lives, the enigmatic Illeana (Angelina Jolie) is introduced indirectly.

Ash Wednesday by Ethan Hawke

by Nikki Tranter

[16.Sep.02] :. Though Hawke often expertly captures some charming and lush moments, 'Ash Wednesday' is not supposed to be a great work of literary genius (as some of his 'But, he's a Hollywood pretty boy!' detractors seem to think), just an uncomplicated tale of the tribulations of young people in love. Objective achieved.

Waking Life (2001)

by Ben Varkentine

Throughout Waking Life, the pictures rarely, if ever, stop moving, flowing, breathing -- attention has been paid to the animated environments, not just the characters in the foreground.

Waking Life (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Interpolations Waking Life begins with two kids (Trevor Jack Brooks and Lorelei Linklater, daughter of the film’s director Richard Linklater) playing a paper hand-puzzle game....

Tape (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

What it gets you thinking about, while you watch it and for some time afterwards, is whether anyone can ever know what has 'happened,' and more disturbingly, how the tendency to want such knowledge can be violent.

Training Day (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Plausibility is plainly not Training Day's concern. It's more interested in images and ideas than practicalities.

Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)

by Renee Scolaro Rathke

Snow falling on cedars. The image is a beautiful one and director Scott Hicks and director of photography Robert Richardson certainly work it in their new film, which offers repeated tableaux of the...

Hamlet (2000)

by Beth Armitage

Hamlet often speaks in a voice-over or directly to the video camera that he is rarely without. Sometimes we see the results of these 'video diaries' as he rewatches them on his monitor -- his own Real World confessional.

Hamlet (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

I confess to feeling a certain dread when I first heard that Ethan ('I have this planet of regret') Hawke was starring in Michael Almereyda's updated-and-abbreviated Hamlet.