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The International

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Feb.09] :. Tom Tykwer's thriller shrewdly introduces Lou (Clive Owen) as he observes rather than acts.

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Michael 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...

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Funny Games

by 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.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.08] :. From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jan.08] :. From the tender and eerie precision of Sam Riley's depiction of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Control to yet another superlative performance by Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, PopMatters highlights the best male actors of 2007.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

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Viggo Mortensen, director Cronenberg reunite for gangster movie

by Dixie Reid [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[17.Sep.07] :. Viggo Mortensen was busted the other day for smoking at the Ritz-Carlton, one of the city’s fine hostelries. “It could be God, and he couldn’t do it,” sniffed one of the...

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Time Encapsulating: The Best DVDs of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[10.Jan.07] :. From solid single issues to amazingly complete film and television compilations, the works highlighted here argue for DVD's continued importance.

The Painted Veil (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Jan.07] :. The Painted Veil uses its narrative limits to make its political case, that privilege breeds ignorance.

King Kong (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Dec.05] :. Jackson's film makes Ann's admiration for Kong an earnest distraction from her eventual, proper coupledom with Jack (who, even with Brody's Men's Health coverboy abs, can't compete with the potent spectacle of Kong).

Stay (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Oct.05] :. Often evocative, sometimes audacious, and finally undone by an inelegant close, Stay is less interested in story than in impressions.

I Heart Huckabees: 2-Disc Special Edition (2004)

by Bill Gibron

[23.Mar.05] :. The Special Edition is loaded with so much self-referential material and 'oh so clever' concepts that they threaten to make the movie into its own cult object.

The Ring 2 (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Mar.05] :. Rachel misses the fact that she's living in a horror movie sequel, which ordains that she's not anywhere near 'starting over' in the usual sense.

I Heart Huckabees: 2-Disc Special Edition (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Feb.05] :. As hard as he tries, Albert can't quite keep up with the Jaffes' questions, let alone their answers.

The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Jan.05] :. With remote in hand, monitor glare on his face, Sam is suitably horrified when the TV reflects his own sense of disarray.

I Heart Huckabees (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Oct.04] :. Albert is again faced with basic questions: Are we really 'all connected'? How can 'everything be the same even if it's different'?"

We Don’t Live Here Anymore (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Aug.04] :. We Don't Live Here Anymore gives weight, indirectly, to the kids' belief that their parents form a unit.

Ned Kelly (2003)

by Daniel Mudie Cunningham

[7.Jun.04] :. Ned might have been a criminal in the eyes of the law, but to working class Australians he was a hero wrongly accused.

21 Grams (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Dec.03] :. In 21 Grams, the fragmentation is pronounced, chaotic to the point of mathematical precision.

Le Divorce (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Aug.03] :. Like previous Merchant-Ivory productions, Le Divorce concerns culture clashes, disruptive expatriates, and squabbles over stuff.

The Ring (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Oct.02] :. Gore Verbinski's The Ring is relentlessly disquieting and incoherent, and sometimes trite in ways it doesn't need to be.

Mulholland Drive (2001)

by Kirsten Markson

Like many of his other works, 'Mulholland Drive' has a dream logic, whereby characters morph, metaphors are made literal, and a stylistic fluidity juxtaposes with a disjointed narrative structure.