Features
Tuesday, August 30 2011
The True Call of Slacker: 20 Years Later
Richard Linklater's Slacker commemorates its anniversary and finds an audience outside of twenty-somethings.
Tuesday, October 14 2008
Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 2
Day Two - A demanding Decalogue overflowing with everything: from fascinating international fare, misbegotten masterworks, some out of the blue bafflers, and that seminal show about “nothing”.
Thursday, June 21 2007
Part 4: Challenging Convention
As cinema went completely commercial, abandoning art for artifice, true aesthetic acumen was hard to come by. Luckily, for the movies included herein, it was their difference, as well as their diversity, that helped them stand out from the rest of the high concept hackwork.
Reviews
Monday, December 19 2011
'Dazed and Confused' Is Perfectly Sincere
The success in representing the fluidity of identity, social boundaries, and power in youth culture makes this film an open-ended text, able to sustain a multiplicity of viewings, viewing modes (casual, formal), and interpretations.
Tuesday, December 8 2009
Me and Orson Welles
Me and Orson Welles is a fresh breeze of a film that does its best to avoid mundane complications.
Thursday, March 8 2007
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (2006)
This was never intended to be a conventional movie, but more like a personal industrial film illustrating the process that brings the corpse of a cow to your dinner table.
Thursday, November 16 2006
Fast Food Nation (2006)
Unabashedly didactic, Fast Food Nation points out the cruel lot of immigrant laborers without rights.
Thursday, July 20 2006
Dazed and Confused: Criterion Collection (1993)
Criterion's DVD appreciates the film itself, without trying too hard to analyze or understand it, thank god.
Blogs
Wednesday, November 25 2009
Me and Orson Welles dir. Richard Linklater (trailer)
Me and Orson Welles, starring Zac Efron and Claire Danes, is releasing today, November 25th. Efron plays a teenage actor who nabs a minor role…
Tuesday, August 25 2009
Me and Orson Welles dir. Richard Linklater (trailer)
Me and Orson Welles Director: Richard Linklater Cast: Zac Efron, Claire Danes Opening: 25 November Let's get this out of the way right off the…
