Features
Tuesday, January 22 2013
The Best Independent / International Films of 2012
When you think outside the box, it's amazing how novel and inventive your thoughts become. Same applies in film. These examples of beyond the mainstream moviemaking shine as creative and experimental entertainments.
Columns
Monday, May 7 2012
International Beats: The Desire for the Foreign in Kerouac's 'On the Road'
With the film adaptation of On the Road just a month away, it's important to once again define what characterized the Beat movement: an infatuation with the foreign.
Reviews
Friday, December 21 2012
'On the Road': Writing as a Way of Life
Instead of generalizations about the Beat generation, On the Road offers a look at postwar youth-and-arts culture that hadn't yet been galvanized (or mainstreamized) by the introduction of rock and roll.
Thursday, December 20 2012
'On the Road' Burns, Burns, Burns
Walter Salles’ hypnotic riff on Kerouac’s American hymn to raw freedoms captures the texture of boho lives, and remembers that deep down, it’s a love story between two men.
Thursday, January 5 2006
Dark Water: Unrated Widescreen Edition (2005)
'I'm attracted by the unknown, by the unexplainable,' says director Walter Salles.
Friday, July 8 2005
Dark Water (2005)
The more anxious Dahlia becomes, the more the dark, soppy, unruly apartment resembles her state of mind.
Friday, October 1 2004
The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
During his youth, Ernesto Guevara was inquisitive, a gentle medical student in search of understanding and full of empathy.
Blogs
Friday, May 25 2012
Cannes 2012: Day 8 - 'On the Road' + 'Post Tenebras Lux'
Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas' Post Tenebras Lux is the most visionary film of this year's Cannes festival. Meanwhile Walter Salles takes on Jack Kerouac’s cult coming-of-age novel, On the Road.
News
Thursday, May 24 2012
It’s been an epic ride to the screen for ‘On the Road’ director Walter Salles
CANNES, France — Walter Salles carefully raises the fingers of his right hand and gently strokes the back of his left. “These are characters,” he…
