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Articles tagged "tommy lee jones" NewsHow to play at being a villain: Bardem, Ledger reignite media interest in craft of actingby Joe Williams [St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT)][14.Aug.08] :. The verdict is nearly unanimous: As the Joker in “The Dark Knight,” Heath Ledger gives a great performance. But what exactly does that mean? As we watch a movie, the mysterious alchemy...  TV ReviewPOV: The Ballad of Esequiel Hernándezby Cynthia Fuchs[8.Jul.08] :. Much like the corrido that opens it, The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández means to remember Esequiel and the circumstances of his murder.  NewsThere will be confusion: Deliberately vague films leave critic coldby Christopher Kelly [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][24.Feb.08] :. Walking out of a press screening of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” in early November, I turned to a fellow critic in the hopes that he might explain a plot point that...  NewsJoel and Ethan Coen’s ‘No Country for Old Men’ is favored for the Oscarby John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)][22.Feb.08] :. LOS ANGELES - On a Sunday night this past January, as the filmmaking brothers Ethan and Joel Coen were picking up one of several New York Film Critics Circle Awards for “No Country for Old...  PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 FeatureA Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007by PopMatters Staff[11.Jan.08] :. From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007. PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 FeaturePerformance 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. PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Iraq War-themed films can’t find an audienceby Soren Andersen [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][2.Jan.08] :. What if they made a war movie and nobody came to see it? No biggie. Individual films fail all the time for all kinds of reasons. Filmmaking is a crapshoot. Always has been. Always will be. The... Sex and violence are not always gratuitous, directors sayby Duane Dudek [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)][12.Nov.07] :. What has more sex and violence than an episode of “The Jerry Springer Show”? The multiplex. You can pass through any neighborhood in America and not know what goes on behind the closed... Q&A with ‘No Country for Old Men’ makers Joel and Ethan Coenby Colin Covert [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)][9.Nov.07] :. Joel and Ethan Coen are in almost constant motion. Three days after completing photography in New York City on their upcoming spy comedy “Burn After Reading,” in the lull before beginning... PopMatters PickFilm ReviewNo Country for Old Menby Cynthia Fuchs[9.Nov.07] :. The desolate landscape and moral layout evoke old Westerns, but the film, based on Cormac McCarthy's novel, also reconsiders the genre's conventions, comparing now and "the old times." A new script for Hollywood war moviesby Carrie Rickey [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)][11.Oct.07] :. Anti-war demonstrators storm the Pentagon in the movie “Across the Universe.” A career soldier protests the Iraq conflict in “In the Valley of Elah.” The tactics of an elite... Hollywood goes to war: Mainstream movies focus on Iraq, terrorismby Cary Darling [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][1.Oct.07] :. Writer Matthew Michael Carnahan makes a living pounding out movie scripts, where flights of fantasy and retreats from reality are the daily stock in trade. But a couple of autumns back, while... Tight-lipped Tommy Lee Jones on ‘In the Valley of Elah’by Howard Gensler [Philadelphia Daily News (MCT)][21.Sep.07] :. TORONTO—Oscar-winning actor Tommy Lee Jones, likely to be nominated again for one or both of his fall movies, “In the Valley of Elah” (opening Friday) and “No Country for Old... In the Valley of Elahby Cynthia Fuchs[20.Sep.07] :. Paul Haggis' film posits Hank as an old-school man of honor, both punished and revered for his traditional "values." Part 4: Challenging Conventionby PopMatters Staff[21.Jun.07] :. As cinema went completely commercial, abandoning art for artifice, true aesthetic acumen was hard to come by. Luckily, for the movies included herein, it was their difference, as well as their diversity, that helped them stand out from the rest of the high concept hackwork. A Prairie Home Companion (2006)by Michael Buening[16.Oct.06] :. That a down home jamboree could be interesting to heavy-metal loving middle school students speaks to its wide. A Prairie Home Companion (2006)by Matt Mazur[9.Jun.06] :. A Prairie Home Companion combines typical Altman strategies, like overlapping dialogue and converging multiple storylines, as well as his fanatical appreciation for the process of creating art. A Prairie Home Companion (2006)by Cynthia Fuchs[9.Jun.06] :. You might call A Prairie Home Companion an unlikely Lindsay Lohan movie. You could also call it the best work she's done, the best work she's likely to do, or the best chance she's had to do good work. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[5.Jun.06] :. 'If you read the script,' Tommy Lee Jones tells his two actors, 'really, it doesn't look like anyone is saying anything that actually matters.'" The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[9.Feb.06] :. The American West, in the new Tommy Lee Jones-directed film, resembles that memorialized in movies by John Ford, John Huston, and Sam Peckinpah. The Big Town (1987)by Kevin Jagernauth[23.May.05] :. In Cullen's rise to the top, he summarily steps on everyone who tries to help him or slow him down. The Missingby Cynthia Fuchs[23.Feb.04] :. At the first moment you see Maggie (Cate Blanchett) on screen in Ron Howard's The Missing, you know this is one of those Cate Blanchett tough-girl projects. The Missingby Cynthia Fuchs[20.Nov.03] :. Maggie's toughness is surely enhanced by Blanchett's fabulous cheekbones and icy eyes. The Hunted (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[11.Aug.03] :. 'For me,' declares Friedkin, just hearing the Dylan lyric spoken by Johnny Cash is worth making a film for. The Hunted (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[13.Mar.03] :. Benicio Del Toro looks appropriately haunted in The Hunted. Men In Black II (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[8.Jul.02] :. What the sequel does make abundantly clear is that the apparently accidental harmonies of the first can -- indeed must -- be turned into calculation. Space Cowboys (2000)by Cynthia FuchsThe aging Clint Eastwood may act like a cantankerous old coot, but everyone knows that he’s still the great American Hero, fiercely loyal, exceedingly courageous, and wily like a fox. In his... Space Cowboys (2000)by Paul VarnerClint Eastwood, I guess, will always see himself as the ultimate icon of masculinity for his generation. The young Eastwood saved the Western film genre in the 1964 with the ultra-hip postmodern... Rules of Engagement (2000)by Mike WardTwo years ago, many critics praised Saving Private Ryan as a new kind of war film that brought the horrors of war home with an unprecedented, visceral intensity.. Double Jeopardy (1999)by Cynthia FuchsThere's something satisfying about watching a beleaguered woman get revenge on a lowdown-scumsucker of a husband. True, there's also something satisfying about substantive characters and plots without whopping big holes in them. But you can't have everything. |
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