Features
Friday, August 19 2011
The 100 Essential Directors Part 6: Ernst Lubitsch to Vincente Minnelli
Today runs the gamut. Hollywood to indie art house, female perspective to male, screwball comedy to chamber drama. The odyssey from Ernst Lubitsch to Vincente Minnelli will provide illumination on how film's first special effects were used, how two brothers presciently preceded reality TV in the Hamptons, and why some directors prefer to work about once a decade on average...
Friday, January 11 2008
A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007
From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007.
Thursday, October 18 2007
Paul Newman's Influential, Classic Performances in The Hustler and The Verdict
In an era of relatively reserved American cinema, when most actors would be concerned with their images as leading men, Newman was not afraid to experiment and go with his artistic impulses.
Columns
Monday, April 23 2012
It's Deja Vu: 'Network' Still Has a Finger on the Pulse of Culture, 36 Years Later
If you were to tell women in 1976 that, 36 years later, women who work exclusively in the home and those who also work outside the home would be pitted against each other, they wouldn’t have believed it.
Reviews
Wednesday, April 28 2010
The Fugitive Kind
Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward, Tennessee Williams and Sidney Lumet make a boring movie. How is this even possible?!
Thursday, June 5 2008
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
What a quirky pair of brothers do Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke make.
Friday, October 26 2007
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Family tensions run high throughout Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.
Friday, March 17 2006
Find Me Guilty (2006)
You might find Vin Diesel guilty of any number of offenses in Sidney Lumet's new film. First, his hair.
Blogs
Friday, April 8 2011
Love Sidney: Sidney Lumet (1924-2011)
There wasn't just one dimension to what (Lumet) did behind the lens. The same could be said for him personally as well.
Monday, November 22 2010
A Bunch of Blu 5
On the high-def agenda this time around: The Last Airbender, Salon Kitty, The Wiz, Charlie St. Cloud, and The Kids Are All Right.
News
Thursday, April 14 2011
How Sidney Lumet fought the showbiz blacklist
LOS ANGELES — I'd almost forgotten what an unabashed liberal Sidney Lumet had been until I read an essay by New York Post critic Kyle…
Friday, November 9 2007
Sidney Lumet knows how to get some satisfaction
"It's not one of your average feel-good movies," says Sidney Lumet with a satisfied grin, speaking of his latest -- the ferociously dark, wildly entertaining,…
