Friday, August 19 2011
TV Highpoints and Lowpoints of 2010-2011… Number 2
The 2010-2011 TV season saw an unprecedented number of major film directors work in TV, while Charlie Sheen's meltdown was an embarrassment both to him and to those who fixated on his demise.
Friday, September 14 2007
The Brave One
For all the hubbub about the sensational girl shooter, The Brave One is almost more interesting for its flaws and omissions.
Friday, December 16 2005
Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
As tends to happen in Neil Jordan's films about spirited outsiders, Kitten's sense of limbo doesn't limit him as much it inspires him to resist expectations.
Monday, August 18 2003
The Good Thief (2003)
'I wanted to create a world that doesn't quite exist, you know, a world of nighttime clubs and nighttime criminality.'"
Thursday, April 17 2003
The Good Thief (2003)
Doubles all stakes of the original film, and more elaborately, of the remaking process.
Sunday, January 1 1995
The End of the Affair (1999)
This is a diary of hate, reads Maurice Bendrix (Ralph Fiennes) aloud as he simultaneously types these same words onto a page. Contrary to what you might expect following such a declaration, however, there is no violent emotion displayed in this introductory scene; no screaming, no violence, no melodrama.
The End of the Affair (1999)
On its surface, Neil Jordan's film of Graham Greene's The End of the Affair is about love. In particular, it appears to be about heterosexual love, or maybe the similarities and disjunctions between spiritual and physical manifestations of such love.
