Articles tagged "ian holm"

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

Part 1: The Thin Red Line to Star Wars Episode I (January - May 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[23.Mar.09] :. The first part of PopMatters' look back at the films of 1999 is bookended by the long awaited return of two cinematic auteurs of wildly different styles, Terrence Malick and George Lucas.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

TV DVD Review

The Anton Chekhov Collection

by Jennifer Kelly

[25.Sep.08] :. A superbly acted, exhaustively complete summary of the great Russian’s dramas that provides real depth of insight into the plays and their possibilities.

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Film DVD Review

The Treatment

by Jason B. Jones

[17.Jan.08] :. Four forms of love: a teacher's love for his students, a son's love for his father, a man's search for a sexual partner, and an analysand's love for his analyst.

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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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Stand-up comic rats on the making of ‘Ratatouille’

by Barry Koltnow [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[2.Jul.07] :. Unlike his namesake, Patton Oswalt is an unlikely candidate for military glory. Then again, Oswalt is not a retired Marine colonel like his father, who named his son after the legendary World War II...

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Ratatouille (2007)

by Bill Gibron

[29.Jun.07] :. Like the gourmet food it so exquisitely renders, one fears that the sensational Ratatouille will end up being a decidedly acquired commercial taste.

Ratatouille (2007)

by Daynah Burnett

[29.Jun.07] :. The exuberant voice performances in Ratatouille immerse the audience in its world, one enhanced by richly-colored, sophisticated animation and a lively score.

The Treatment (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Jun.07] :. Just as you're questioning your own capacity for sympathy, the best reason to keep watching The Treatment shows up: Famke Janssen.

Part 4: Challenging Convention

by PopMatters Staff

[21.Jun.07] :. As cinema went completely commercial, abandoning art for artifice, true aesthetic acumen was hard to come by. Luckily, for the movies included herein, it was their difference, as well as their diversity, that helped them stand out from the rest of the high concept hackwork.

Future Shock: The Death of Serious Science Fiction

by Bill Gibron

[29.May.07] :. 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.

Monkey Business (Part 2: June)

by Bill Gibron

[2.May.07] :. Apparently, as the sun's strongest rays finally settle over the movie going public, sequels are the remedy to cool down an overheated demographic. This month alone holds five examples of such redux refreshment. The rest of the choices are a variety pack of genres, ideas and possibilities.

Renaissance (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Sep.06] :. Illusion is frequently the threat in noir (the dark alley hides a killer, the femme is fatale), but the SF angle in Renaissance tweaks the possibilities.

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.

Wetherby (1985)

by Kevin Jagernauth

[26.Jan.05] :. Crippled by their past and unable to function in the present, these characters represent what David Hare calls 'the part-emotional landscape that is England.'"

Garden State (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Dec.04] :. Natalie Portman brings to this sad, strange, vibrant girl her own remarkable, brilliant energy.

The Aviator (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Dec.04] :. The Aviator portrays Hughes as a rebel and a genius, a dashing young man with ambition, hope, and nerve.

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Oct.04] :. Even as it lays down a scary geopolitical scenario and a few partisan gauntlets, The Day After Tomorrow aims to please.

Garden State (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Jul.04] :. 'As far back as I can remember,' Large sighs, 'I've been medicated.'"

Day After Tomorrow (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.May.04] :. As the 'eye of the storm' speeds across the screen, instantly freezing everything in its path, Jack looks up to see a flag, turned spastically solid in a second. Here it is, the money shot: the emblematic United States, stuck in time, blind to consequences, fixated on its own reckless self-love.

Joe Gould’s Secret (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Joe Gould (Ian Holm) is what they used to call a 'character.' You see him early in Stanley Tucci's film, scuttling into a diner where New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell (Tucci) is having coffee.

From Hell (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The real subject is the street, or rather, the street as a cultural concept, simultaneously brutal and beautiful.

From Hell (2001)

by F.L. Carr

'From Hell' is the story of a disturbed man on the trail of a madman -- an exploration of the minds of killer and the man sent to stop him.

Bless the Child (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Cody's special in a very particular way -- in a second-coming kind of way -- which, in movie-logic, makes her the prime target for a slew of Satan's minions.