Features
Friday, August 12 2011
The 100 Essential Directors Part 4: Samuel Fuller - John Huston
On our fourth day, this journey through the 100 Essential Film Directors continues to twist and turn in unexpected ways. From bold, opinionated Hollywood voices to those who essentially created the language of cinema, today will shed light on kings of genre like Samuel Fuller, through lions like the legendary John Huston.
Thursday, January 6 2011
The Best DVDs of 2010
As the medium continues to struggle with significance in the steady "streaming" of the 21st Century, here are PopMatters' picks for the best the format(s) have to offer.
Wednesday, June 23 2010
Hitchcock, Haneke and the Psycho-Sexual Voyeur Apparatus
“The film knows that it is being watched, and yet does not know,” says Christian Metz. “The one who knows is the cinema, the institution..."
Friday, January 8 2010
The Best 30 Films of 2009
In one of the rarest rating periods ever, several on the staff could successfully argue for any of the Top 30 choices as a potential number one. While not all classics, they remain the consistent cream of 2009's crop.
Friday, January 8 2010
The Best Independent / International Films of 2009
Looking for something far off the well-beaten mainstream path? Well, step on over to some savory world and outsider independent cinema. It's here where the risks, the experimentation, and the true art lives.
Reviews
Tuesday, July 13 2010
The Tangled, Trailing Tale of 'The White Ribbon'
A la Village of the Damned, the children of this village are a strange breed, suspiciously always present at the scenes of the savage crimes.
Friday, March 14 2008
Funny Games
Michael Haneke's scene for scene remake of his own 1997 film, Funny Games, appears to be premised on displeasure.
Wednesday, June 28 2006
Caché (Hidden) (2005)
Michael Haneke's movies are never easy. Instead, they set out complex, multi-layered problems, encountered by ordinary-seeming characters, sometimes worked out but more usually left unresolved.
Friday, January 6 2006
Caché (2005)
Caché is Michael Haneke's latest unsettling look at the shaky foundations of bourgeois security.
Monday, February 7 2005
Time of the Wolf (Le Temps du loup) (2002)
In Michael Haneke's version of the end of the world, things are different.
Blogs
Friday, August 28 2009
The White Ribbon dir. Michael Haneke (trailer)
Germany's entry for the Foreign Language Film Oscar looks to be the amazing director's ticket to the gold. Funny Games, The Piano Teacher and Cache…
News
Friday, March 14 2008
Michael Haneke offers an English version of 'Funny Games'
When directors decide to remake one of their own films, it is usually because there was something about the first version that they felt could…
