Features
Friday, January 11 2008
A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007
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.
Wednesday, January 9 2008
Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male
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.
Friday, January 4 2008
The Best Big Screen Eye Candy of 2007
When flipping through my mental catalog of the year's films, certain scenes stand out. This past year offered a veritable feast of visual goodies.
Reviews
Sunday, July 17 2011
When Time Twists Within Itself: 'Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies'
Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies explores the connections between the birth of the motion picture and the evolution of modern art, particularly Cubism.
Friday, November 30 2007
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le Papillon)
The movie follows the outline of Jean-Dominique Bauby's memoir, not only recounting his former, super-glam playboy life, but also reckoning with his current condition, asserting a self without speech or gesture.
Wednesday, November 28 2007
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Diving Bell feels like another world and visually, it looks like no other film.
Sunday, January 1 1995
Before Night Falls (2000)
A faithful filmic adaptation of Arenas' memoir could easily take six hours and still not capture the full impact of the book. Painter-turned-director Julian Schnabel ('Basquiat') consciously diverges from the traditional school of literary adaptation.
Blogs
Friday, July 15 2011
The Middling East; 'Miral'
(Miral) is a vague, overly ambitious wash that will leave both fanatics and the casual fan wanting more...and caring even less.
Friday, September 26 2008
Lou Reed's Berlin (2007)
Music is the most opened ended of mediums. Individuals can influence the reception of a song or a sonic cycle simply by using their own…
News
Tuesday, April 5 2011
Julian Schnabel makes a 'disruptive' movie about Palestinians in 'Miral'
MINNEAPOLIS — Painter-turned-filmmaker Julian Schnabel has the highest aims for his controversial new feature film "Miral." It tells the story of a disenfranchised Arab girl…
Friday, January 14 2011
Jewish artist-filmmaker falls for Palestinian orphanage tale, then for its writer
MIAMI — In the spring of 2007, shortly after famed artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel won best director at the Cannes Film Festival for "The…
Friday, January 18 2008
Julian Schnabel says he's made a film everyone can relate to
Julian Schnabel sees a different world than the rest of us. That was obvious from his paintings, "bold, confrontational" pieces of neo-expressionism, the critics raved…
Thursday, January 3 2008
Filmmaker as artist: With so much talent, what's a little ego?
It could be a Zen koan, what just came out of Julian Schnabel's mouth: "Nobody knows better than you what you need to do, even…
