Neil Jordan

Features

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Female

By PopMatters Staff

From the most sweetly nuanced performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh's career to Cate Blanchett's revelatory portrayal of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, the women of 2007 were stellar. [9 January 2008]

Reviews

The Brave One

By Cynthia Fuchs

For all the hubbub about the sensational girl shooter, The Brave One is almost more interesting for its flaws and omissions. [14 September 2007]

Breakfast on Pluto (2005)

By Cynthia Fuchs

As tends to happen in Neil Jordan's films about spirited outsiders, Kitten's sense of limbo doesn't limit him as much it inspires him to resist expectations. [16 December 2005]

The Good Thief (2003)

By Cynthia Fuchs

'I wanted to create a world that doesn't quite exist, you know, a world of nighttime clubs and nighttime criminality.'" [18 August 2003]

The Good Thief (2003)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Doubles all stakes of the original film, and more elaborately, of the remaking process. [17 April 2003]

The End of the Affair (1999)

By jserpico

This is a diary of hate, reads Maurice Bendrix (Ralph Fiennes) aloud as he simultaneously types these same words onto a page. Contrary to what you might expect following such a declaration, however, there is no violent emotion displayed in this introductory scene; no screaming, no violence, no melodrama. [1 January 1995]

The End of the Affair (1999)

By Cynthia Fuchs

On its surface, Neil Jordan's film of Graham Greene's The End of the Affair is about love. In particular, it appears to be about heterosexual love, or maybe the similarities and disjunctions between spiritual and physical manifestations of such love.