Tuesday, August 30 2011
The True Call of Slacker: 20 Years Later
Richard Linklater's Slacker commemorates its anniversary and finds an audience outside of twenty-somethings.
Wednesday, January 23 2008
Physical Evidence: Selected Film Criticism by Kent Jones
What matters isn’t whether you or I agree with Jones, of course, but whether his writing offers new insights into the films and directors at hand.
Thursday, March 8 2007
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (2006)
This was never intended to be a conventional movie, but more like a personal industrial film illustrating the process that brings the corpse of a cow to your dinner table.
Thursday, November 16 2006
Fast Food Nation (2006)
Unabashedly didactic, Fast Food Nation points out the cruel lot of immigrant laborers without rights.
Thursday, July 20 2006
Dazed and Confused: Criterion Collection (1993)
Criterion's DVD appreciates the film itself, without trying too hard to analyze or understand it, thank god.
Thursday, July 6 2006
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Simultaneously strange and familiar, not himself, Bob lives inside an ooky, unsolvable world that mirrors our own ongoing fears, of surveillance, loss, and forgetting.
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
The suits make for images so fascinating they feel nearly "addictive," appropriate given that the film is about (among other things), viewing, reality, and addiction.
Wednesday, December 14 2005
Bad News Bears (2005)
The DVD extras are mostly valuable for the access they grant to Richard Linklater, who is a terrific storyteller and articulate filmmaker.
