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Articles tagged "jeffrey wright" Film ReviewChicago 10by 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.  Film ReviewThe Invasionby Bill Gibron[19.Aug.07] :. With 2007’s oft-delayed The Invasion, there is simply no more symbolic juice left.  Film ReviewThe Invasion (2007)by Cynthia Fuchs[17.Aug.07] :. Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel (who made the impressive Downfall), the film goes from sharp paranoid thriller to noisy action flick.  Film ReviewSyriana (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[23.Nov.05] :. This Middle Eastern spy thriller is complex and earnest, a film that repays close attention.  Film ReviewBroken Flowers (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[5.Aug.05] :. A sort of minimalist male melodrama, Broken Flowers tracks a journey through regret and hope.  Film DVD ReviewThe Manchurian Candidate (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[22.Dec.04] :. Demme's movie reasserts that the fabled U.S. political landscape isn't transparent or democratic, but instead, corrupted by the individuals who manage it. The Manchurian Candidate (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[30.Jul.04] :. The Manchurian Candidate draws a line between the corporation and the government, sustaining a hope that the U.S. system might be salvaged by an honestly free election. Ali: The Director’s Cut (2001)by Cynthia Fuchs[7.Jun.04] :. The bravest thing Ali does is to gesture toward, wonder at, and celebrate Muhammad Ali, and then let go of him. Angels in Americaby Todd R. Ramlow[22.Dec.03] :. By far the most resonant aspect of Angels in America today is its exposure of simplistic struggles over definitions of 'good' and 'evil'. Ali (2001)by Cynthia FuchsAli embodies a kind of car-wreck charisma -- arrogant and self-conscious, beautiful and fierce, even on twenty-year-old tape, he can take your breath away. This ability to mesmerize makes Ali who he is, or more accurately, who everyone wants him to be. He's a cipher and a screen onto which viewers might project themselves. Hamlet (2000)by Cynthia FuchsI confess to feeling a certain dread when I first heard that Ethan ('I have this planet of regret') Hawke was starring in Michael Almereyda's updated-and-abbreviated Hamlet. Hamlet (2000)by Beth ArmitageHamlet often speaks in a voice-over or directly to the video camera that he is rarely without. Sometimes we see the results of these 'video diaries' as he rewatches them on his monitor -- his own Real World confessional. Ride with the Devil (1999)by Cynthia FuchsRide With the Devil dares to bring yet another version. Directed by Ang Lee and written by Lee and his usual collaborator James Schamus (who adapted Daniel Woodrell's novel Woe to Live On, a novel inspired, says the author, by today's warfare in the Balkans), the film is rather surprising, and not only because it stars Jewel as a Southern widow. Telling stories that don't usually get told, Ride With the Devil focuses on some of the War's more disgraceful and outrageous aspects, both personal and public. Ride with the Devil (1999)by Todd R. RamlowRide with the Devil is essentially two films in one. The first is a story of loyalty - to family, community, and nation - tested in the social and political upheavals of civil war. The second is a story of male bonding and love in a homosocial order, the negotiation of male-male desire, and male domestication, all triangulated and enabled through the body of a woman. Syriana (2005)by Cynthia FuchsIf you come away with nothing else from Syriana, it's that this concept -- winning -- is an illusion, at least in any sort of long run. Shaft (2000)by Cynthia FuchsIt’s Isaac Hayes’s music, of course, that resonates. Whatever else you say about that “complicated man” named John Shaft, that whaa-whaa-whaa theme song identifies him... |
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