Friday, May 25 2012
Cannes 2012: Day 8 - ‘On the Road’ + ‘Post Tenebras Lux’
Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas' Post Tenebras Lux is the most visionary film of this year's Cannes festival. Meanwhile Walter Salles takes on Jack Kerouac’s cult coming-of-age novel, On the Road.
Monday, August 25 2008
He’s Lost Control
The kids who grew up in the '90s had the haunted Kurt Cobain; my generation had the tormented Ian Curtis.
Wednesday, January 9 2008
Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male
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.
Monday, November 12 2007
Control
What could have easily ended up as a humorless exercise in hipster excess turns out warm and snappy.
Wednesday, November 7 2007
Control
Despite occasional strange and impossibly intimate reveries, the film lapses frequently into biopickish shorthand.
