Monday, December 3 2007
Awake
Though Awake makes a vague case against playing god in the operating room, it also argues for other sorts of manipulations, none convincing.
Monday, April 24 2006
Casanova (2005)
This would be the cleaned-up, wearisome, supposedly romantic version of the notorious Casanova.
Friday, January 6 2006
Casanova (2005)
Gaudy and giddy, this Casanova is full of energy but also strangely limp.
Tuesday, April 26 2005
Darkness: Unrated Version (2004)
Ooky ambiguity is one thing. Incoherence is another.
Wednesday, September 8 2004
The United States of Leland (2003)
Leland meets a teacher who's been tending to young hard cases for too long.
Thursday, April 1 2004
The United States of Leland (2003)
Leland will come to be instructive and redemptive for others, just as he has tried to find instruction and redemption in others.
Tuesday, October 7 2003
Hollywood Homicide (2003)
My intention was to make a picture that on one level was a genre movie, summer movie, kind of a cop movie, whatever that genre is, and at the same time, to serve different gods.
Thursday, June 19 2003
Hollywood Homicide (2003)
Short version: Joe's hardheaded and eats cheeseburgers, K.C.'s into fluidity and bean sprouts.
Queen of the Damned (2002)
In 'Queen of the Damned', there's something more than a little obvious about the vampire Lestat as goth rock superstar.
