Features
Tuesday, March 24 2009
Part 2: The Virgin Suicides to The Blair Witch Project (May - August 1999)
In Part Two of our look at the most memorable films of 1999, we experience music, foul-mouthed mayhem, and a late, great auteur's final cinematic statement.
Columns
Thursday, June 14 2007
The Lisbon Bunch
Purposefully ending one's life is often seen as a last act of personal desperation. But in Jefferey Eugenides' poignant, bewitching novel, it may actually be a form of salvation.
Reviews
Friday, December 24 2010
'Somewhere': You Be My Reader
Detailed and lovely, patient and observant, Somewhere's look isn't just how a girl might see, though it is that. It's how most movies don't take the time to see.
Friday, December 24 2010
'Somewhere': No There There
Sofia Coppola's swoony critique of Hollywood emptiness trips dangerously close to being a pretty, vacuous nothing.
Thursday, April 19 2007
Marie Antoinette (2006)
Marie Antoinette's veneer is so impregnably varnished, so buffed to such an imposing sheen, that any attempt at critical ingress either bounces off of or slides down its glossy façade.
Friday, October 20 2006
Marie Antoinette (2006)
A girl made queen by the peculiar forces of 18th-century statecraft, Marie is by turns amused, alarmed, and pissed off, mercurial and imperious as only a teenager can be.
Monday, February 23 2004
Lost in Translation (2003)
Lost in Translation one-ups its peers with better music, prettier shots, and a more charismatic lead, but its racism is all the more insidious for being wrapped in a pleasing package.
News
Tuesday, April 19 2011
Sofia Coppola's 'Somewhere' comes to DVD
LOS ANGELES — Sofia Coppola, daughter of director Francis Ford Coppola, was looking for a smaller project after making the big-budget period film "Marie Antoinette"…
