Features
Friday, January 8 2010
The Best DVDs of 2009
Let's face it, when the content inside is less than meaningful, how better to market your particular movie than with plenty of digital packaging bells and whistles. Many of our 2009 choices reflect this strategy. Others are great all by themselves.
Reviews
Wednesday, July 15 2009
Zabriskie Point
You will not see a better distillation of the '60s and everything the decade stood for than this uncompromising artistic overview.
Wednesday, November 23 2005
The Passenger (1975/2005)
He is introduced as a human being in the process of existing rather than any particular person engaged in any particular struggle.
Saturday, May 28 2005
Eros (2004)
Wong Kar-Wai's section follows Miss Hua (Gong Li in some of the most gorgeous dresses ever photographed), a sultry but also wistful Hong Kong call girl.
Sunday, January 1 1995
The Mystery of Oberwald (Mistero di Oberwald, Il) (1980/2001)
Set in 1903, 'Oberwald' is an adaptation of a Jean Cocteau play called 'The Two-Headed Eagle'. The play and subsequent video are both premised on the kind of everyplot that evokes many common narratives at once.
Blogs
Thursday, February 9 2012
ReFramed No. 19: Michelangelo Antonioni’s 'Zabriskie Point' (1970)
What happens when an admitted auteur makes a grand -- and quite insular -- artistic statement? Critics are dumbfounded, which means it's time for our preservationist pair to break out the accolades.
Thursday, July 2 2009
Zabriskie Point (1970)
Legend has it that when Italian maestro Michelangelo Antonioni came to America to make his second English language film (after the monster success of Blow-up),…
