Features
Tuesday, September 9 2008
Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008
From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.
Columns
Friday, October 3 2008
In the Land of the Blind
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.
Reviews
Friday, October 3 2008
Blindness
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.
Tuesday, August 30 2005
The Constant Gardener (2005)
That might be the film's most potent insight, that the white guy cannot save the day.
Monday, June 7 2004
City of God (Cidade de Deus) (2002)
The film's most profound understanding is that the moral confusions shaping its protagonists are not particular to them, but surrounding all of us.
Friday, January 31 2003
City of God (Cidade de Deus) (2002)
Delves into daily traumas and fears, the bleak hierarchies of power, race, and desire that structure life in the projects.
Thursday, January 23 2003
City of God (Cidade de Deus) (2002)
A longtime director of commercials, Meirelles is a consummate showman. Therein lies the problem.
Blogs
Thursday, October 2 2008
Fable Feels 'Blind' to its Own Illogic
Before Star Wars, serious science fiction survived on the allegorical. Take a typical situation, instill it with some sort of out of this world premise,…
