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Articles tagged "michael pitt" Film DVD ReviewSilkby Jake Meaney[26.Mar.08] :. A beautiful movie. So very, very beautiful. Achingly beautiful, excruciatingly beautiful, tear-inducingly beautiful.  NewsMichael Haneke offers an English version of ‘Funny Games’by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][14.Mar.08] :. When directors decide to remake one of their own films, it is usually because there was something about the first version that they felt could be improved. Alfred Hitchcock gave his 1934... Film ReviewFunny Gamesby Cynthia Fuchs[14.Mar.08] :. Michael Haneke's scene for scene remake of his own 1997 film, Funny Games, appears to be premised on displeasure.  Film DVD ReviewJailbait (2004)by Brian Holcomb[19.Apr.07] :. Trapped in a cell / trapped in stage-to-film translation.  Film ReviewLast Days (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[5.Aug.05] :. A mediation on sadness, desire, lack of direction... and yes, Kurt Cobain, Last Days seems almost to stretch out its minutes.  Film DVD ReviewThe Village (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[10.Jan.05] :. 'I have to keep doing things that scare me, and this certainly scares me,' says M. Night Shyamalan. The Village (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[5.Aug.04] :. Noah is so wrapped up in his own emotions that he seems, at first, the most literal embodiment of the film's critique of a post-9/11 American isolationism. The Dreamers (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[12.Jul.04] :. 'At the beginning, says Bertolucci,' the characters are a bit unshaped, and day after day, you can see them becoming something new, something that didn't exist before. The Dreamers (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[5.Feb.04] :. The frustration of The Dreamers lies in its easy lapsing into such unimaginative nostalgia, as if recalling the moment is enough. Murder by Numbers (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[18.Apr.02] :. 'Murder by Numbers' isn't about solving the case; it's about solving Cassie (Sandra Bullock). Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)by Cynthia Fuchs...reminds us that rock per se has a long history of celebrating alienation and ambiguity. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)by Todd R. RamlowHedwig and the Angry Inch's insight into the fluidity of gender is made all the more powerful by Hedwig's own attempts to puzzle through these conundrums. The film doesn't moralize, or try to give set answers. |
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