Friday, November 16 2007
A Mighty Heart
At last, all we have is the horror we began with. Pearl will be beheaded, for nothing, and the world gets a little darker.
Friday, June 22 2007
A Mighty Heart (2007)
In images of the street and daily Karachi life, the movie finds drama that is "unfamiliar" but also crucial, suggesting the complexity of the task set before investigators in Danny's case.
Thursday, January 11 2007
The Road to Guantánamo (2006)
While the movie has been termed a "docudrama" for its mix of reenactments, interviews, and archival news footage, it is not nearly so easy or easygoing about "truth" as such a label suggests. The film's complex form corresponds to its story, in the sense that "truth" is precisely what troubles it.
Friday, June 23 2006
The Road to Guantánamo (2006)
The very illegibility of the movie's representational process, you imagine, approximates the assaults on the prisoners.
Friday, February 3 2006
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2006)
The film controverts various theories of writing and reading, production and reception.
Friday, January 13 2006
9 Songs: Unrated Full Uncut Version (2004)
Through sex, specifically the surrender and exposition of self through this oldest human hobby, Michael Winterbottom communicates the beauty and pain of a relationship.
Friday, July 29 2005
9 Songs (2005)
9 Songs knows the limits of its material, and doesn't test them.
Monday, January 17 2005
Code 46 (2004)
According to screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce, 'The 20th century was the Freud century, and the 21st century's going to be the genetics century.'"
Thursday, August 5 2004
Code 46 (2004)
William's seeming gift of empathy is a deception: anyone could do his job, if properly infected.
