Articles tagged "john malkovich"

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Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place

by Michael Antman

[2.Apr.09] :. Charles Olson was above all a poet of place, and whatever one thinks of his verse, it is hard not to sympathize with his championing of the unique and the indigenous.

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Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 4: All About My Mother to Sleepy Hollow (October - November 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[26.Mar.09] :. Outsiders and oddballs make up Part Four's formidable filmmakers, an idiosyncratic collection of dreamers and visionaries.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

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Changeling

by Stephen Snart

[19.Feb.09] :. There’s a touch of Arthur Miller in the way the audiences emotions are played in this story of challenging authority.

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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

Iconic - The Top 20 Male Performances of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[14.Jan.09] :. Like the gladiators of old, 2008 resembles a battle of formidable acting gods, especially when looking over the 20 choices presented below. Indeed, if anything, choosing a winner requires more of a leap of faith than any amount of critical skill - they all were that good.

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

Burn After Reading (2008)

by Bill Gibron

[21.Dec.08] :. The Coen Brothers remains the most predicable unpredictable artists in Hollywood. You can be guaranteed that the minute you think you have them pegged - post-modern nostalgists, retro Hollywood...

Narrative Choices Challenge ‘Changeling’s Effectiveness

by Bill Gibron

[30.Oct.08] :. The Clint Eastwood renaissance has been a joy to behold. While many thought his 1992 Oscar for Unforgiven would mark the culmination of an amazing, four decade long career, the new millennium...

Changeling

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Oct.08] :. A movie made with awards season in mind, Changeling offers extravagant affects and overwritten speeches.

Identities in Flux

by Chris Barsanti

[24.Oct.08] :. Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York is performance art as civilization-annihilating Godzilla, whereas Eastwood's Changeling is a film that wins the stranger than fiction category, hands-down.

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 3

by PopMatters Staff

[16.Oct.08] :. Day Three - The final ten, a cross-culture collection teeming with big ideas, larger than life visions, and perhaps the greatest documentary on rugby you've probably never heard of.

Being John Malkovich brings many movie roles

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[18.Sep.08] :. TORONTO - John Malkovich is, well, being John Malkovich, although no portals affording entry to his mind seem to be in operation here at the Four Seasons Hotel. The actor, who starred as himself, of...

Burn After Reading

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Sep.08] :. Ozzie (John Malkovich) embodies the problem of the CIA, of the "intelligence community," which is that it reacts to data, then fashions a story about it to comport with the reaction.

Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008

by Bill Gibron

[10.Sep.08] :. What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience.

Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008

by Bill Gibron

[9.Sep.08] :. From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.

Klimt

by Mehera Bonner

[15.Jan.08] :. Klimt certainly led a life worthy of making into a movie, but we would have been better off with a more traditional biopic than this self-indulgent art-flick.

Art School Confidential (2006)

by Matt Mazur

[10.Oct.06] :. While director Terry Zwigoff seemed to have held the patent on this sort of offbeat tone in his past work, his kooky rudeness is his undoing, here

The Libertine (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Aug.06] :. Rochester is "a beaten man," observes writer-director Laurence Dunmore, "Whilst he sort of knee-jerks the defiance."

Art School Confidential (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.May.06] :. As much as Jerome's harsh appraisals of his peers and teachers appear to be warranted, Art School Confidential doesn't exactly endorse his aspirations.

The Libertine (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Mar.06] :. John Wilmot, the Second Earl of Rochester (Johnny Depp), is always the smartest guy in the room.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Oct.05] :. For all its possibilities -- and its crazily pleasant animations --the movie takes a more or less conventional narrative shape.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Apr.05] :. Ford Prefect (Mos Def) wanders into the film of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a little late, and in no hurry.

A Talking Picture (2003)

by Lester Pimentel

[21.Jan.05] :. A Talking Picture is marked lamentably by self-congratulation, cultural pretension, and Islamophobia.

Mulholland Falls (1996)

by Kevin Jagernauth

[8.Nov.04] :. Mulholland Falls resembles an episode of Law & Order with funny hats.

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.

I’m Going Home (2001)

by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece

[2.Sep.03] :. Explores the ageless, ceaseless, and fruitless desire to find a place of peace.

Johnny English (2003)

by Jesse Hassenger

[24.Jul.03] :. 'He may be a fool, but he's a fool who keeps showing up.'"

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.

I’m Going Home (2001)

by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece

[22.Aug.02] :. I'm Going Home not only retains its heart, but expands it until the film's emotional power is almost too much to handle.

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)

by Beth Armitage

Early on in the very long Luc Besson film, The Messenger, John Malkovich (playing Charles, Dauphin of France) wishes he could be someone else. It was the one and only time that I identified with anything in the film - I wished I could watch him be someone else! Like himself in Being John Malkovich. The Messenger is an unbelievably dull movie, which is a startling achievement given that the legend of Joan of Arc lends itself pretty well to storytelling of any type.

Being John Malkovich (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The new movie Being John Malkovich is about celebrity culture, as it inspires, frustrates and pummels you into such desire. It offers its protagonists and you the chance to imagine being a celebrity, with one small hitch: the only celebrity you can be is John Malkovich.