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Backstage at the Oscars: ‘Milk’ screenwriter speaks out

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

[23.Feb.09] :. HOLLYWOOD - “Milk” screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, who gave a politically tinged acceptance speech on stage, continued his political bent backstage, calling on President Obama to repeal...

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

The New Classics - The 30 Best Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[16.Jan.09] :. Unlike previous years, where classics came crawling out of the celluloid woodwork with regular reckless abandon, 2008 was more calm… and considered. That's not to say that choosing 30 top titles was hard. The difficulty in placing them in some manner of rank order suggests the actual depth of quality involved.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

Tough and Tender - The Top 20 Female Performances of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[14.Jan.09] :. Twenty talented ladies, 20 performances worthy of multiple little gold men. Unfortunately, as in all years, someone has to come out on top. But after looking over this impressive list, picking the preeminent turn of 2008 seems almost impossible.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

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Woody Allen’s “Asian” Problem

by Jennifer Tang

[10.Oct.08] :. Hollywood has rarely offered Asians opportunities to be anything other than karate heroes, geishas, wartime prostitutes, or sinister "yellow peril" villains.

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Extasis

by Emma Simmonds

[11.Sep.08] :. Javier Bardem sometimes appears a mere hair’s breadth away from growling and licking the lens.

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Woody weird? His new star begs to differ

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[21.Aug.08] :. Rebecca Hall wants to debunk some Woody Allen myths. All the A-listers and ingenues who have gasped about how the bespectacled auteur appears aloof and indifferent on the set, proffering little in...

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Javier Bardem, living the impossible life

by Stephen Becker [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)]

[15.Aug.08] :. On film, Javier Bardem is a direct guy. In his Oscar-winning turn in “No Country for Old Men,” he shows no hesitation in shooting people in the head with a cattle gun. And in Woody...

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Aug.08] :. Maria Elena (Penélope Cruz) is the figure least obviously dictated by the Woody Allen template. And for that, you are eternally grateful.

‘Barcelona’ Betrays Allen’s Stifled Storytelling

by Bill Gibron

[15.Aug.08] :. Vicky Christina Barcelona is really nothing more than rich people bitching. Now where exactly is the fun in that?

How to play at being a villain: Bardem, Ledger reignite media interest in craft of acting

by Joe Williams [St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT)]

[14.Aug.08] :. The verdict is nearly unanimous: As the Joker in “The Dark Knight,” Heath Ledger gives a great performance. But what exactly does that mean? As we watch a movie, the mysterious alchemy...

Javier Bardem makes acting look like child’s play

by Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[11.Aug.08] :. Javier Bardem remembers the time from his childhood when he realized he was a performer. “I was playing make-believe like any other kid,” the 39-year-old actor recalled in a phone...

Goodbye, Woody

by Bill Gibron

[4.Aug.08] :. The divorce has been coming for some time now. We’ve been separated for years, but it’s only recently that I’ve even considered taking the final step. Lord knows I’ve tried to...

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: August 2008

by Bill Gibron

[1.May.08] :. Talk about a crowded schedule. There are more offerings scheduled this month than in the previous two combined.

There will be confusion: Deliberately vague films leave critic cold

by Christopher Kelly [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[24.Feb.08] :. Walking out of a press screening of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” in early November, I turned to a fellow critic in the hopes that he might explain a plot point that...

Joel and Ethan Coen’s ‘No Country for Old Men’ is favored for the Oscar

by John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)]

[22.Feb.08] :. LOS ANGELES - On a Sunday night this past January, as the filmmaking brothers Ethan and Joel Coen were picking up one of several New York Film Critics Circle Awards for “No Country for Old...

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.

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jan.08] :. From the tender and eerie precision of Sam Riley's depiction of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Control to yet another superlative performance by Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, PopMatters highlights the best male actors of 2007.

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Nov.07] :. Fermina remains a cipher, an object in Juvenal's possession and of Florentino's endless affection without an emotional life of her own.

Sex and violence are not always gratuitous, directors say

by Duane Dudek [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)]

[12.Nov.07] :. What has more sex and violence than an episode of “The Jerry Springer Show”? The multiplex. You can pass through any neighborhood in America and not know what goes on behind the closed...

Q&A with ‘No Country for Old Men’ makers Joel and Ethan Coen

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

[9.Nov.07] :. Joel and Ethan Coen are in almost constant motion. Three days after completing photography in New York City on their upcoming spy comedy “Burn After Reading,” in the lull before beginning...

‘Goya’s Ghost’ director witnessed parallels to the Inquisition

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[26.Jul.07] :. Miloš Forman first heard about the Spanish Inquisition when he was a student in Prague. “It was probably my first shock as a citizen,” says the 75-year-old, two-time Oscar winning...

Goya’s Ghosts (Los Fantasmas de Goya) (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Jul.07] :. If Miloš Forman's movie doesn't take up his distinctive visual style, it does embrace his broad satire, ferociously targeting religious, state, and financial leaders.

Collateral (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Aug.04] :. Michael Mann's new film shows what anyone who's paid attention to Jamie Foxx has known for some time: he is excellent.

The Dancer Upstairs (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Sep.03] :. John Malkovich and Javier Bardem shed welcome light on their thinking about this sophisticated meditation on terrorism, trust, and desire.

Mondays in the Sun (Los lunes al sol) (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Aug.03] :. As Mondays in the Sun begins, Santa is finding it increasingly difficult to maintain his sense of humor and optimism.

The Dancer Upstairs (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.May.03] :. Both the terrorists and the administration, ironically, invest in a paradoxical faith -- in the power of seeing and remaining unseen.

Before Night Falls (2000)

by Lucas Hilderbrand

A faithful filmic adaptation of Arenas' memoir could easily take six hours and still not capture the full impact of the book. Painter-turned-director Julian Schnabel ('Basquiat') consciously diverges from the traditional school of literary adaptation.