Tuesday, August 3 2010
Laura Huxley Has Her Say About Laura Huxley in ‘Huxley on Huxley’
Aldous Huxley's second wife discusses her life before, during and after her marriage to the eminent author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception.
Thursday, August 14 2008
Life Into Art: Strange Culture and the Measure of Documentary Film
Strange Culture is a critical entry point into the current discussion of what makes a documentary a documentary, most notably because it announces its own subjectivity in a clear and provocative way.
Wednesday, October 31 2007
Commune
Commune's most irritating habit is to render quaint the complicated elements of the commune’s history, while leaving the most dramatic issues unexplored.
Tuesday, October 9 2007
Strange Culture
Strange Culture presents Kurtz's bizarre legal and political predicament within layers of context, having to do with fears of terrorism and art, the Patriot Act and U.S. prosecutorial zealousness.
Tuesday, July 12 2005
The Inside
It's hard not to hope that The Inside will be a replacement for Buffy, especially since creator Tim Minear is connected to the Buffyverse.
Monday, January 3 2005
The 4400: The Complete First Season
The 4400 intimates that most of the returnees' integration problems boil down to fear approximating a post-9/11 'dread of difference'.
Wednesday, November 24 2004
The Hebrew Hammer (2003)
The Hammer remains confused and conflicted, almost apologetic for who he is.
Monday, November 1 2004
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election (2003)
Under these conditions, the film suggests, another Florida is not only likely, but probable.
Thursday, July 24 2003
Northfork (2003)
Challenges U.S. myths of enduring national identity, corporate good will, and westward-ho expansions.
Thursday, November 7 2002
Femme Fatale (2002)
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos' central function is looking great and so, confounding various men around her.
