Articles tagged "viggo mortensen"

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Slacker Uprising

by Anthony Henriques

[28.Oct.08] :. With substandard picture quality and a lack of true eye-opening material, this will be regarded as a minor work in an otherwise impressive film canon.

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Short Ends and Leader

Serious Flaw Threatens ‘Appaloosa’s’ Excellence

by Bill Gibron

[2.Oct.08] :. When the Western died, it did so because of two distinct reasons. First, the media had so saturated the audience with as many warmed over oaters as possible that even fervent devotees screamed...

Short Ends and Leader

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Appaloosa

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Oct.08] :. Men are weathered in Appaloosa, a one-saloon town in 1882's New Mexico Territory.

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The Films of Lech Majewski

by Erik Hinton

[24.Sep.08] :. These are the really artsy films that anyone who has ever wanted to parody experimental cinema has been waiting for.

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: November 2008

by Bill Gibron

[11.Sep.08] :. Like the sainted sigh of relief that comes after another shriek-filled All Hallow's Eve, November usually means the start of the 'nominate me' process for the proposed prestige pictures of 2008.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008

by Bill Gibron

[9.Sep.08] :. From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview

A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007

by 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.

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male

by 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.

‘Eastern Promises’ reteams Mortensen and Cronenberg

by Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[21.Sep.07] :. Scorsese and De Niro. Fellini and Mastroianni. John Ford and the Duke. And now ... David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen? After working on only two films together, the partnership of...

Viggo Mortensen, director Cronenberg reunite for gangster movie

by Dixie Reid [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[17.Sep.07] :. Viggo Mortensen was busted the other day for smoking at the Ritz-Carlton, one of the city’s fine hostelries. “It could be God, and he couldn’t do it,” sniffed one of the...

Part 5: The Return of the Auteur

by PopMatters Staff

[22.Jun.07] :. That noise you heard near the start of the new millennium was the creative din of a brash new breed of filmmakers tearing down the traditions of mainstream moviemaking. Their motion picture mission statements -- including the ones featured on this list -- remain the rulebook for new generations of anxious film artists.

A History of Violence (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Sep.05] :. This slippage between myth and realism, or maybe expectation and consummation, is precisely the genius of A History of Violence.

Witness: Special Collector’s Edition (1985)

by Nikki Tranter

[14.Sep.05] :. Bemused at times, Detective John Book is nonetheless captivated by the Amish community's simplicity, its decency, and its ability to thrive despite its antiquities.

Hidalgo (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Aug.04] :. 'Being out in the middle of the Arabian desert,' says Mortensen, 'you could easily imagine what it must have been like.'"

Hidalgo (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Mar.04] :. Hidalgo is the story of this horse and his man.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Dec.03] :. No in-betweeners in this reductive view of the world: characters and choices are good or evil.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Dec.02] :. It's useful to remember that, offscreen, both good and bad tend to be tricksy.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[18.Dec.01] :. What is potentially most urgent about 'The Fellowship of the Ring' is how it reflects the tenor of our time.

28 Days (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The pleasure Gwen takes in all this chaos -- not to mention Bullock's signature sunniness -- makes this introductory sequence look like the opening to a broad Farrelly brothers-style comedy.