Articles tagged "james urbaniak"

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

 

TV Review

Independent Lens: Chicago 10

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Oct.08] :. Opening the Fall 2008 season of Independent Lens, Chicago 10 revises old ideas -- about what constitutes history and documentary.

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Film DVD Review

Chicago 10

by Stuart Henderson

[15.Oct.08] :. Where is our Chicago Ten? Where are our “conspirators”? Is Obama really supposed to fix everything? Can we really pretend that things are still getting better all the time?

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Film Review

Chicago 10

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Feb.08] :. You can't make this stuff up: Bobby Seale, bound and gagged in a Chicago courtroom. But there it is, again, in big, brightly colored animation, in Brett Morgen's Chicago 10.

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

All Around the World: The Best International/Indie Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[10.Jan.08] :. Beginning and ending with the superlative filmmaking of Jia Zhang-ke, traversing the nooks and crannies of the globe, PopMatters presents the 20 best international and indie films of 2007.

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

 
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Film Review

Fay Grim (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.May.07] :. Fay Grim is less concerned with the details of contemporary spy-craft and global deception than with broader moral questions.

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The Girl from Monday (2004)

by Rob Horning

[29.Jul.05] :. In the film's America, the government has been replaced by an advertising firm.

 

The Venture Brothers

by Michael Abernethy

[24.Aug.04] :. The boys are so moronic that it's hard to care what happens to them.

 

Teknolust (2002)

by Daniel Mudie Cunningham

[4.Mar.04] :. Tilda Swinton is perfectly suited to Leeson's cyberfeminist project.

 

American Splendor (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Aug.03] :. Is there a finer actor on the planet than Hope Davis?"

 

Sweet and Lowdown (1999)

by Josh Jones

[3.Dec.99] :. Even though Sean Penn brings a phenomenally hysterical freshness to Emmett Ray (and he played a similarly mustachioed maniac in Hurly Burly, without the artistic genius), Sweet and Lowdown is familiar ground for Woody Allen, replete with his usual themes.