Monday, April 11 2011
A Truly ‘90s Cultural Artifact: ‘Goosebumps: Escape From HorrorLand’
Jeff Goldblum and Isabella Rossellini collaborated with Steven Spielberg on a Goosebumps video game and somehow it never became an Internet meme.
Monday, February 16 2009
Two Lovers
A wall of family photos, glimpsed briefly in an early scene of Two Lovers, lays out Leonard's too conventional dilemma.
Thursday, February 12 2009
Two Lovers: All Your Choices Are Bad Ones
What James Gray bravely does in Two Lovers is return the idea of pain, and the threat of bad decisions, to the American film romance.
Thursday, May 1 2008
The Return of the Popcorn Circus: August 2008
Talk about a crowded schedule. There are more offerings scheduled this month than in the previous two combined.
Thursday, August 23 2007
The Architect
Anthony LaPaglia delivers a brilliantly understated performance as a man who has the ability to build, but not maintain, and the desire to reconstruct, but not renovate.
Friday, October 13 2006
Infamous (2006)
When Truman quite gleefully describes his plan to use 'fictional techniques' to tell his nonfiction story, to shape the Clutter murders as an emblem of cultural malaise, Nelle insists on a knowable distinction between fact and fiction.
Monday, November 15 2004
The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
'There are tears for things, there are tears of things, there are tears from things,' says Guy Maddin.
Thursday, May 13 2004
The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
Guy Maddin's film is swirling with scraps of movie and other recent history.
Thursday, December 5 2002
Empire (2002)
Of the many crazy clichés in Empire, Isabella Rossellini's big fat hair has to be the loony-tunesiest.
