Features
Tuesday, August 2 2011
The 100 Essential Directors Part 1: Chantal Akerman - Bernardo Bertolucci
Neurotic New Yorkers, Queer Mavericks, Swedish close-ups and the art of putting a microphone on every person on set are but a few of the themes explored in PopMatters' first group of ten essential directors, Chantal Akerman through Bernardo Bertolucci. Please note that any perceived omissions were likely on purpose...
Thursday, October 16 2008
Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 3
Day Three - The final ten, a cross-culture collection teeming with big ideas, larger than life visions, and perhaps the greatest documentary on rugby you've probably never heard of.
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, June 22 2007
Part 5: The Return of the Auteur
That noise you heard near the start of the new millennium was the creative din of a brash new breed of filmmakers tearing down the traditions of mainstream moviemaking. Their motion picture mission statements -- including the ones featured on this list -- remain the rulebook for new generations of anxious film artists.
Reviews
Tuesday, April 8 2008
There Will Be Blood
However fictional, Daniel Plainview is like history come to life -- more Frankenstein's monster than wax doll.
Friday, January 4 2008
There Will Be Blood
Land, oil, blood. There will be lots of all in Paul Thomas Anderson's stunning new movie.
Monday, June 23 2003
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
Deftly rearranges any number of generic conventions, from romantic comedies, musicals, and melodramas with happy endings that can't make sense but seem inevitable and necessary.
Friday, October 18 2002
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
Deftly rearranges any number of generic conventions, from romantic comedies, musicals, and melodramas with happy endings that can't make sense but seem inevitable and necessary.
Blogs
Wednesday, August 3 2011
100 Essential Directors - Paul Thomas Anderson
100 Essential Directors celebrates directors of distinct vision, who have honed their respective crafts, who have brought something new and exciting to the medium, and who continue to push the boundaries of the form.
Tuesday, January 11 2011
There Will Be... Bud? What WILL the Next Paul Thomas Anderson Project Be?
Paul Thomas Anderson's follow-up to his brilliant There Will Be Blood was to be an original tale of a fictional religious organization entitled The Master,…
News
Sunday, February 24 2008
There will be confusion: Deliberately vague films leave critic cold
Walking out of a press screening of Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood" in early November, I turned to a fellow critic in the…
Friday, January 4 2008
To his latest director, Daniel Day-Lewis is 'the man'
"Maybe it's presumptuous to say this, but from a director's point of view he's the Holy Grail of actors, isn't he? At least he always…
