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Monday, November 23 2009

Hitting ‘The Road’ with Director John Hillcoat

By Matt Mazur

Director John Hillcoat talks to PopMatters about the hazards of being intimidated by legends, the funny side of cannibalism and Viggo Mortensen's sweet tooth as his adaptation of the seminal apocalyptic novel The Road hits theaters.

Friday, November 20 2009

Director Spotlight: Pedro Almodóvar

By PopMatters Staff

Today: Viva Pedro: The Almodovar Interview -- What could possibly be better than getting face time with one of the most legendary filmmakers of all-time? Almodóvar talks to PopMatters about his new film, Broken Embraces and much more.

Friday, November 6 2009

Eclipse Series 17: Nikkatsu Noir

By Alistair Dickinson

These five films from the golden-era of the legendary Nikkatsu studio shows off the never-ending ways Japanese filmmakers were able to combine the best elements of pulp and epic Japanese storytelling.

Friday, October 30 2009

Agonies of an ‘Antichrist’: Lars von Trier in the Forest of Unreason

By Stephen Rylance

Despite the efforts of some to dismiss it as a prank, Antichrist is a serious film and its disturbing extremes speak of broad and deeply felt moral, social, and ultimately, political anxieties.

Monday, October 26 2009

Bored New World: How the Zach Braff Prototype Is Slowly Killing American Music

By Chris Milam

Natalie Portman popped headphones onto Zach Braff's head and said, "This song will change your life." The resulting sound was not only that of carefully composed dullness, but of a million wealthy white kids investing in dull acoustic music to soundtrack their own romantic melodrama.

Sunday, October 25 2009

The 47th Annual New York Film Festival

By Michael Buening

There were plenty of films in the New York Film Festival that captured similar redemptive moments and there is nothing esoteric, depressing or arduous about that.

Friday, October 23 2009

PopMatters @ 10

By PopMatters Staff

PopMatters celebrates its birthday this week with a series of essays on cultural changes over our 10-year lifespan. Today: Mark Reynolds on "The Long and Short of Long-Form Journalism" and Nikki Tranter on "Exit from Nowheresville: My 10 Years with PopMatters".

Thursday, October 22 2009

“They’re All My Children”: An Interview with Ennio Morricone

By Drew Fortune

The legendary Italian maestro is responsible for some of the most iconic film scores in history, and at 81 years old is still going strong.

Monday, October 19 2009

One of Those Faces You Can’t Help Believing: Anthony Perkins in Psycho

By Aaron Knier

The "shower scene" in Hitchcock's Psycho has become woven into our pop cultural backdrop, but it's the “dinner scene” that shines a narrow light on the character of Norman Bates.

Sunday, October 11 2009

Aziz Ansari

By PopMatters Staff

Named Entertainment Weekly’s top 12 future stars of comedy, Aziz Ansari has a voracious appetite for performing, eating, and… just about anything else that is subject to an appetite.

Friday, October 9 2009

“Paranormal Activity” and the Pinocchio Complex

By Stephen Graham Jones

Author and horror enthusiast Stephen Graham Jones explains how in mixing a range of sub-genre conventions into one film, Paranormal Activity could be this generation's Exorcist.

Thursday, September 17 2009

Princess Tiana’s Blues

By Claire Shefchik

Princess Tiana could get Disney out of the race-relations doghouse, but only if they’re true to their vision.

Friday, September 11 2009

Feast or Famine: The 2009 PopMatters Fall Movie Preview

By Bill Gibron

Today: December 2009: The big guns -- James Cameron, Clint Eastwood, Peter Jackson, Terrence Malik -- are still putting the finishing touches on their over the top treats. As usual, it looks like the Hollywood heavyweights are once again saving some of the best for last.

Friday, August 28 2009

Hellboy Sweet Sixteen

By PopMatters Staff

PopMatters offers an in-depth cultural analysis of the Hellboy phenomenon. Today: "The Devil You Know: Mignola's Hellboy in the Chapel of Moloch and the Old Debate" AND "The Horror of Science and Magic in Hellboy".

Monday, August 17 2009

Remaking History: An Interview with Quentin Tarantino

By Rene Rodriguez

Tarantino talks about his decision to rewrite world history with Inglourious Basterds and the critical reaction to his recent films.

Thursday, August 13 2009

‘Funny People’ and the Advent of the Social Network Narrative

By Thomas Britt

If the public prefers disposable, computer generated product about man-babies to dramas about human relationships, then Funny People may be plugged directly in to the zeitgeist.

Wednesday, August 12 2009

Perfect Moments of Escape

By Mollie Wells

Are the girls of John Hughes' films feminists? Does it matter? For '90s girls like me, Hughes' female leads were less reflections of ourselves than welcome respites from a teen culture much rougher around the edges.

Thursday, August 6 2009

Blood Work: Park Chan-wook Revamps a Western Myth

By Matt Mazur

Korean director Chan-wook's killer new action-dramadey borrows heavily from Emile Zola's Therese Raquin, successfully setting it apart from the current proliferation of watered-down vampire stories.