Tuesday, October 14 2008
Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 2
Day Two - A demanding Decalogue overflowing with everything: from fascinating international fare, misbegotten masterworks, some out of the blue bafflers, and that seminal show about “nothing”.
Thursday, September 6 2007
Space: 1999: 30th Anniversay 17 DVD Megaset
It wanted to be a Me Decade meditation on all things cosmic and considered. Yet thanks to a 'force' outside its control, it became the lamentable last word.
Wednesday, May 2 2007
Brando
Brando is most original and inspiring when it looks at Brando's other work. As Bobby Seale remembers, "If I said, 'Constitutional democratic civil human rights,' I mean, it lit him up."
Wednesday, March 29 2006
The Evidence
The introduction of a running metanarrative that links all the episodes upsets the underlying sense of justice this formula typically provides.
Thursday, February 24 2005
Shanghai Ghetto (2002)
As survivor Henry Meisel observes in one of the supplemental, extended interviews: 'It's amazing how people can improvise.'"
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.
Wednesday, May 28 2003
Nevada Smith (1966)
Walking away from violence, especially in a film set in the violent old West, delivers a powerful message.
Sunday, January 1 1995
Ready to Rumble (2000)
Ready to Rumble is ostensibly a simple comedy of bumbling bumpkins - in this case lovers of professional wrestling - along the lines of Farrelly brothers' films like Dumb and Dumber and Kingpin.
