Articles tagged "jake gyllenhaal"![]() PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 FeatureA Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007by 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 ![]() Film DVD ReviewZodiac-The Director’s Cutby Brian Holcomb[8.Jan.08] :. Even though Zodiac attempts to achieve a sort of documentary-like reality, there is an underlying surrealism, a poetic and nightmarish vibe that hangs over the whole film. ![]() NewsToday’s foreign wars are Hollywood hellby Lewis Beale [Newsday (MCT)][9.Nov.07] :. This is not your grandfather’s war. This war is unpopular and controversial, seemingly endless. But that hasn’t stopped Hollywood from releasing a series of films about Iraq and its evil... ![]() NewsHollywood becomes an unlikely - but effective - teacherby John Crewdson [Chicago Tribune (MCT)][25.Oct.07] :. A young woman goes to see “Blood Diamond” because she admires Leonardo DiCaprio. Later, she and her fiance stop by a jewelry store to pick out their engagement rings. “No blood... ![]() Film ReviewRenditionby Cynthia Fuchs[19.Oct.07] :. Rendition is worried about torture. Specifically, it's worried about Americans torturing other people while saying they're not. PopMatters Pick![]() Film DVD ReviewZodiacby Emma Simmonds[15.Aug.07] :. Bonds are fleetingly forged then broken, comradeship and honour are largely absent and, like the Zodiac himself, everyone emerges as a rather lost and damaged soul. ‘Zodiac’ filmmaker David Fincher recalls wave of panicby Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][3.Mar.07] :. The phrase “From the director of `Seven’” conjures up a certain expectation, especially when it’s plastered on the posters for “Zodiac,” a movie about the... David Fincher talks ‘Zodiac’by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)][2.Mar.07] :. “So, which side are you on? ” asks director David Fincher, beginning the interview with a question. “Which side of what?” “The length of the movie. Are you on the `too... PopMatters Pick![]() Film ReviewZodiac (2007)by Cynthia Fuchs[2.Mar.07] :. David Fincher's excellent new movie winds clues and pursuits into an intriguing, often witty mix of causes and effects. In so doing, it rejiggers the police procedural. The PopMatters ‘Short Ends & Leader’ Spring Film Previewby Bill Gibron[2.Mar.07] :. In order to separate the worthy from the worthless, PopMatters' "Short Ends & Leader" editor is highlighting 10 new films he's looking forward to this spring. Brokeback Mountain (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[12.Apr.06] :. While the movie's poetry is often stunning, the DVD docs are decidedly and disappointingly banal. Proof (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[17.Feb.06] :. As John Madden says, the film's central issue is 'validation', in emotional and familial, as well as mathematical and metaphorical, frameworks. Brokeback Mountain (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[9.Dec.05] :. It's Alma's silence that makes Brokeback Mountain feel so serious. Her pain is neither exquisite nor elegiac. It is only hard. Jarhead (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[4.Nov.05] :. Jarhead doesn't lose sight of this basic truth of war. More effective weapons only deepen its despair. Proof (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[16.Sep.05] :. And yet, for all the potential nuance in this knotting, the film leaves the sisters caught up in a familiar conflict. Donnie Darko: Director’s Cut (2001)by Cynthia Fuchs[17.Feb.05] :. The problem embodied by Donnie is at once mundane and painfully special, the dilemma of fate vs. free will, laced though with unanswered questions of identity and responsibility. 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. 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. Moonlight Mile (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[3.Oct.02] :. Fits a little too neatly with the recent popularity of media considering grief and death rituals. The Good Girl (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[9.Aug.02] :. Into Justine's black hole of a routine walks Holden glowering, self-consciously poetic, urgent. Lovely & Amazing (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[18.Jul.02] :. Even as the girls in Holofcener's world have their own problems, they provide acutely recognizable reflections. |
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