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Film Review

Rudo y Cursi

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.May.09] :. Only a few minutes into Rudo y Cursi, the brothers are discovered playing grand and gloriously boyish fútbol.

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The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview Feature

Summer of Same: May 2009

by Bill Gibron

[27.Apr.09] :. May's titles include the fourth films in two aging franchises, more Pixar perfection, and the reboot of a TV series from 40 years ago. And they say there are no new ideas.

The PopMatters Summer 2009 Movie Preview

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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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.

Babel: Borders Within

by Rebecca Chang

[1.Oct.07] :. As a director, Inarritu is kinetic, adventurous and deeply motivated by spontaneity of feeling. The new edition of Babel is worth getting ahold of for the extra feature documentary alone.

Babel: Lest We Be United

by Stuart Henderson

[1.Oct.07] :. The great, overarching question one asks during a film such as this is: where is the light? At 143 minutes, this much sadness and tragedy becomes somewhat numbing.

French director Gondry would rather play with paint than pixels

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

[21.Jun.07] :. The visionary French film director Michel Gondry learned early that making art was a good way to impress people. “I would draw naked women and show them to my friends,” he recalled in a...

The Science of Sleep (La Science des rêves) (2006)

by Jesse Hassenger

[20.Mar.07] :. This film revels in blurriness; not just in the line between director and fictional character, but between people, languages, and of course, between sleeping and waking, between living and dreaming.

Babel (2006)

by Jack Patrick Rodgers

[23.Feb.07] :. With a movie that encompasses international relations, broken families, personal epiphanies, romantic longings, painful secrets, and our constant aching need for human connection, Iñárritu might have bitten off more than he could chew.

The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.07] :. For many of the movies on PopMatters' 2006 list of the year's best films, it is clear that a heavy personal and professional stake was riding on the final product.

The Science of Sleep (La Science des rêves) (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Sep.06] :. Written and directed by the ever inventive Michel Gondry, The Science of Sleep is a gorgeous, weird, mesmeric movie, with adorable animated reveries to represent Stéphane's subjective state.

The King (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Jun.06] :. Though Elvis seems impelled by the memory of his dead Mexican mother and trained to deliver a certain calculated violence, his power is illusory.

Bad Education (La mala educación) (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Apr.05] :. Pedro Almodóvar's commentary is as seductive as his filmmaking.

Bad Education (La mala educación) (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Nov.04] :. Bad Education tweaks the lesson just enough so that it doesn't turn out to be what you expect.

The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Oct.04] :. During his youth, Ernesto Guevara was inquisitive, a gentle medical student in search of understanding and full of empathy.

El Crimen del Padre Amaro (2002)

by Josh Jones

[16.Jan.03] :. In El Crimen del Padre Amaro, the Catholic Church and its representatives are not immune from earthly corruption and desire.