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Articles tagged "samantha morton" Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 FeaturePart 5: Toy Story 2 to Titus (November - December 1999)by PopMatters Staff[27.Mar.09] :. On this final day of PopMatters' 1999 overview, awards season hype gives way to pure acting prowess and definitive directorial flair. Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999  Film DVD ReviewSynecdoche New Yorkby Evan Sawdey[20.Mar.09] :. Consumed with existential dread, this film captures the feeling of near-death angst remarkably well, enough to the point where it's not Caden that's feeling it -- it's the audience.  PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 FeatureThe New Classics - The 30 Best Films of 2008by PopMatters Staff[16.Jan.09] :. Unlike previous years, where classics came crawling out of the celluloid woodwork with regular reckless abandon, 2008 was more calm… and considered. That's not to say that choosing 30 top titles was hard. The difficulty in placing them in some manner of rank order suggests the actual depth of quality involved. PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008  PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 FeatureTough and Tender - The Top 20 Female Performances of 2008by PopMatters Staff[14.Jan.09] :. Twenty talented ladies, 20 performances worthy of multiple little gold men. Unfortunately, as in all years, someone has to come out on top. But after looking over this impressive list, picking the preeminent turn of 2008 seems almost impossible. PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008  Short Ends and LeaderKaufman’s ‘Synecdoche’ Is Complex, Compelling Quirkby Bill Gibron[18.Dec.08] :. Love isn’t easy. Neither is life. Both bring us so much sorrow and pain that it’s weird how obsessive we are over each one. We covet them both, loathe the times when we are without them,...  NewsCharlie Kaufman as director: On the whole, he’s up to the partsby Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)][6.Nov.08] :. TORONTO - “I don’t need to be mentored,” says Charlie Kaufman, a touch indignant, when asked if Spike Jonze helped out with advice on “Synecdoche, New York.” The film,... Synecdoche, New Yorkby Cynthia Fuchs[24.Oct.08] :. Much like protagonists in previous Charlie Kaufman scripts, Caden is an artist in search of his art. Identities in Fluxby Chris Barsanti[24.Oct.08] :. Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York is performance art as civilization-annihilating Godzilla, whereas Eastwood's Changeling is a film that wins the stranger than fiction category, hands-down. Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008by Bill Gibron[10.Sep.08] :. What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience. He’s Lost Controlby Jennifer Makowsky[25.Aug.08] :. The kids who grew up in the '90s had the haunted Kurt Cobain; my generation had the tormented Ian Curtis. Ode to Joy: Joy Division / Control (2007)by Bill Gibron[1.Jun.08] :. The most revolutionary thing about punk wasn’t the music, though it’s hard to imagine that ‘70s listeners were ready for the Ramones/Sex Pistols style of cacophonous crash and burn.... The Return of the Popcorn Circus: May 2008by Bill Gibron[28.Apr.08] :. In the first act of this four-part production, Tinsel Town decides to do some unbelievable front loading. Will there be room for independent offerings, or former HBO carnal comedy divas? Who knows? Without a doubt, it's an interesting way to start the season. Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Maleby PopMatters Staff[9.Jan.08] :. 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. Controlby Matt Mazur[12.Nov.07] :. What could have easily ended up as a humorless exercise in hipster excess turns out warm and snappy. Controlby Cynthia Fuchs[7.Nov.07] :. Despite occasional strange and impossibly intimate reveries, the film lapses frequently into biopickish shorthand. Geoffrey Rush gets his Rove on for ‘Elizabeth’ sequelby Stephen Becker [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)][12.Oct.07] :. TORONTO—Geoffrey Rush knows how to close the deal. It’s a skill he may have learned from playing Sir Francis Walsingham, the Karl Rove-like consigliere who serves as the monarch’s... Elizabeth: The Golden Ageby Cynthia Fuchs[12.Oct.07] :. The movie feels more superficial than significant, like it's stuck behind a pane of glass. The Libertine (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[22.Aug.06] :. Rochester is "a beaten man," observes writer-director Laurence Dunmore, "Whilst he sort of knee-jerks the defiance." The Libertine (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[10.Mar.06] :. John Wilmot, the Second Earl of Rochester (Johnny Depp), is always the smartest guy in the room. Code 46 (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[17.Jan.05] :. According to screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce, 'The 20th century was the Freud century, and the 21st century's going to be the genetics century.'" Enduring Love (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[11.Nov.04] :. Samantha Morton's face seems a perfect object for gazing on. Code 46 (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[5.Aug.04] :. William's seeming gift of empathy is a deception: anyone could do his job, if properly infected. In America (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[17.May.04] :. The semi-autobiographical tale of director Jim Sheridan considers the many complicated ways that 'America' works as idea and experience, the ways it engulfs, consumes, and produces its subjects. Morvern Callar (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[15.Mar.04] :. Morvern is a puzzle the film picks at but never quite solves, the focus of its probing but also respectful attention. In America (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[4.Dec.03] :. Everything in In America turns magical once Mateo appears. Morvern Callar (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[20.Mar.03] :. Morvern is a puzzle the film picks at but never quite solves, the focus of its probing but also respectful attention. Minority Report (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[20.Jun.02] :. Based on a story published by Philip K. Dick in 1956, 'Minority Report' is science-fiction of the sort that Dick preferred to write -- set in the future, but all wrapped up in concerns that are immediately relevant to the present moment (that the same concerns were relevant back in 1956 is not a little unnerving, as will become clear). Sweet and Lowdown (1999)by Josh Jones[3.Dec.99] :. Even though Sean Penn brings a phenomenally hysterical freshness to Emmett Ray (and he played a similarly mustachioed maniac in Hurly Burly, without the artistic genius), Sweet and Lowdown is familiar ground for Woody Allen, replete with his usual themes. |
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