Friday, April 2 2010
The Thorn in the Heart (L’épine dans le coeur)
The film watches mother and son looking back, their interconnected but also disparate processes made visible in interviews, home movies, and reenactments.
Wednesday, April 22 2009
Tôkyô!
Taken together, the three movies in Tôkyô! create a frightful, smart, and lingering impression.
Thursday, June 19 2008
Be Kind Rewind
Uneven and a little muddled, Be Kind Rewind might be a prime candidate for the very fan remixing it portrays.
Friday, March 21 2008
Various Artists: Be Kind Rewind
Sprawling, breezy lite-funk mixed with classics by Billy Preston and Booker T. & the MGs. Definitely worth rewinding.
Friday, February 22 2008
Be Kind Rewind
A set of relationships -- father and son, past and present, fiction and something like history -- forms the foundation of Be Kind Rewind, another gently antic film by Michel Gondry.
Thursday, April 26 2007
Short Ends & Leader Recent Highlights
Day in and day out, SE&L offers up insightful and in-depth film criticism, covering a wide range of cinematic issues from the historical to the front page entertainment headlines. Here are some recent highlights...
Tuesday, March 20 2007
The Science of Sleep (La Science des rêves) (2006)
This film revels in blurriness; not just in the line between director and fictional character, but between people, languages, and of course, between sleeping and waking, between living and dreaming.
Friday, September 29 2006
The Science of Sleep (La Science des rêves) (2006)
Written and directed by the ever inventive Michel Gondry, The Science of Sleep is a gorgeous, weird, mesmeric movie, with adorable animated reveries to represent Stéphane's subjective state.
Friday, March 3 2006
Dave Chappelles Block Party (2006)
Block Party sustains a balance between good-natured light-heartedness social commentary.
