Friday, April 10 2009
Lymelife
Lymelife features frustrated, confused kids, and frustrated, self-obsessed adults.
Thursday, October 16 2008
Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 3
Day Three - The final ten, a cross-culture collection teeming with big ideas, larger than life visions, and perhaps the greatest documentary on rugby you've probably never heard of.
Friday, August 4 2006
The Night Listener (2006)
Tapping into recent public outrages over writers who lie, The Night Listener's indictments are drearily unsubtle.
Friday, March 17 2006
The Zodiac (2006)
The Zodiac so altered our consciousness that we can now easily imagine a serial killer with no motivation other than achieving a public spectacle.
Wednesday, January 26 2005
Mean Creek (2003)
'This shot here... is like a window opening up onto this kid's world,' says Jacob Aaron Estes.
Friday, August 27 2004
Mean Creek (2003)
The crisis doesn't produce good and bad behaviors, so much as it challenges such moralistic definitions, exploring the pressures that lead to kids' seeming deviance.
Sunday, January 1 1995
You Can Count on Me (2000)
In fact, when Terry describes Scottsville as a town full of 'dull, narrow people... with no perspective, no scope,' he might have been describing the film's characters.
