Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008

By Bill Gibron

From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one. [9 September 2008]

In the Land of the Blind

By Chris Barsanti

Fernando Meirelles’ adaptation of Jose Saramago’s Blindness fails because the source material doesn’t easily lend itself to cinema, and because the filmmaker is clearly out of his depth. [3 October 2008]

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Blindness

By Cynthia Fuchs

If its political metaphor is plain, the aesthetic allusions are more intriguing, as Blindness works to show what can't be shown, to find a visual language for what's not visual. [3 October 2008]

The Constant Gardener (2005)

By Cynthia Fuchs

That might be the film's most potent insight, that the white guy cannot save the day. [30 August 2005]

City of God (Cidade de Deus) (2002)

By Cynthia Fuchs

The film's most profound understanding is that the moral confusions shaping its protagonists are not particular to them, but surrounding all of us. [7 June 2004]

City of God (Cidade de Deus) (2002)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Delves into daily traumas and fears, the bleak hierarchies of power, race, and desire that structure life in the projects. [31 January 2003]

City of God (Cidade de Deus) (2002)

By Elbert Ventura

A longtime director of commercials, Meirelles is a consummate showman. Therein lies the problem. [23 January 2003]

Short Ends and Leader: Fable Feels ‘Blind’ to its Own Illogic