Monday, September 19 2011
Shakespeare Bites Back: Stratford Takes on Hollywood
Eminent Shakespeare scholars present their argument in response to the upcoming release of Roland Emmerich's Anonymous.
Thursday, April 3 2008
Atonement
There are so many perspectives to be considered in this film, that it might be said director Joe Wright had one too many cooks in the English country estate’s proverbial kitchen.
Thursday, January 24 2008
Gone and Not Forgotten: The PopMatters DVD Wish List
A lot of good movies are still missing from DVD. Here is a list of 25 that PopMatters feels have been unceremoniously left to simply fade away.
Friday, December 7 2007
Atonement
The lingering deaths of soldiers and the lost causes they embody serve as tragic backdrops to the less compelling plot points embodied by Briony and her characters.
Friday, July 6 2007
Evening (2007)
More troubling than Evening's technical failures, the film suffers from a host of cynical political and social themes that undercut the drama throughout.
Friday, January 20 2006
The White Countess (2006)
The final Merchant/Ivory collaboration is set in 1936 Shanghai and revisits the filmmakers' usual concerns -- loss, desire, and nostalgia for a moment that never quite existed.
Wednesday, January 26 2005
Wetherby (1985)
Crippled by their past and unable to function in the present, these characters represent what David Hare calls 'the part-emotional landscape that is England.'"
