Recent Film Features

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Monday, April 20 2009

Full Circle: Béla Fleck, Paul Simon & America’s Return to the World Community

By Jeffrey Pinzino

Béla Fleck didn't ask to be the Avatar of the New American Culture (avatars never do). He happened to be in the right place at the right time with a banjo and a digital recorder. The remaining dots are ours to connect, and we've begun to connect them.

Friday, April 17 2009

On Evas and Angels: Postmodern Fantasy Devotion to Neon Genesis Evangelion

By Cyrus Fard

More than a decade after its debut, Neon Genesis Evangelion continues to reign as a cultural icon in Japan. Understanding how it made such a lasting impact gives us a window onto Japanese social history and fandom.

Monday, April 13 2009

All the Faith in the World: Holiday

By Kerrie Mills

Holiday is the sort of movie that gives those who do know it the satisfyingly superior glow of being in on something really good.

India Shining?: America’s Indian Moment

By Derik Smith

Perhaps Slumdog Millionaire is an elaborate, cinematic version of Bobby Jindal. Perhaps Western audiences have so deeply appreciated Boyle's film because it subtly reiterates a symbolic order that is as familiar as colonial conquest.

Sunday, April 12 2009

Paul Ben-Victor

By PopMatters Staff

We learn at PopMatters 20 Questions that in addition to his acting skills, Ben-Victor has a knack for doing wild makeup designs and body art.

Wednesday, April 8 2009

To Kill the Sunflower: An Interview with Cory McAbee

By Justin Dimos

Space is a lonely town, but there's only room for one song-and-dance sheriff in these parts, and his name is Cory McAbee, writer and director of the new space-western musical Stingray Sam.

Thursday, April 2 2009

The Aesthetics of Absorption: Truffaut’s ‘The 400 Blows’

By Chadwick Jenkins

In Truffaut, the camera works not to keep the viewer out of the constructed reality of the film but rather to draw the viewer into the artifice, to make the viewer complicit in its feigned reality

Sunday, March 29 2009

The Power of Nines

By Bill Gibron

1999 wasn't the only banner year in moviemaking. Believe it or not, you can go back to the years 1959, 1969, 1979, and 1989 and find fabulous film classics in abundance.

Friday, March 27 2009

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

By PopMatters Staff

On this final day of PopMatters' 1999 overview, awards season hype gives way to pure acting prowess and definitive directorial flair. Day Five: Toy Story 2 to Titus (November - December 1999)

Thursday, March 26 2009

Confess, Fletch

By Peter Swanson

The Chevy Chase films shouldn't deter you from reading Gregory McDonald's masterful and often hilarious Fletch mysteries

Wednesday, March 25 2009

Perfect Storms: The 11th Annual D.C. Independent Film Festival

By Renee Scolaro Mora

On the first Saturday, I saw some 15 films, surviving on popcorn and a gallon of Diet Coke, bleary-eyed from taking notes by the light of my cell phone. By the time it was over, I had seen 35 -- a rewarding whirlwind.

Thursday, March 19 2009

An Auteur’s Touch of Evil

By Shaun Huston

The auteur is dead, long live the auteur: Orson Welles and Touch of Evil, 50 years on.

Wednesday, March 4 2009

‘This Is Not the Culture I Signed Up For’: Alan Moore and Hollywood

By Ben Hamilton

Who will watch the Watchmen? Not their creator, Alan Moore. And while he seems to be alone in his condemnation with the latest adaptation of his work, Moore's steadfast position deserves some real attention.

Monday, March 2 2009

John Cassavetes’ Faces: The Authenticity of Discomfort

By Chadwick Jenkins

The camera always gets too close in Cassavetes’ films. These aren’t close-ups; they are invasions of private space.

Monday, February 23 2009

100 Essential Female Film Performances

By PopMatters Staff

PopMatters concludes our 100 Best Female Film Performances feature with extremely insightful, generous anecdotes from Liv Ullmann about three of the performances on this list, one of her personal choices, and a once-in-a-lifetime addendum by the glorious Bergman super trouper Bibi Andersson herself.

Wednesday, February 18 2009

Mike Leigh and His Affinity for Writing Brilliant Female Characters

By Matt Mazur

The director of Happy-Go-Lucky tells PopMatters: “…Each of us is the center of his or her universe. Everybody is as valid as everybody else.”

Tuesday, February 17 2009

The Way of All Flesh: Notes on the 2009 Victoria Film Festival

By Josh Timmermann

In non-Hollywood cinema, there’s less emphasis placed on svelte figures and chiseled cheekbones. But that doesn’t mean the physical form can’t play just as significant a role on-screen.

Friday, February 13 2009

State of the Slasher Address 2: We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

By Stephen Graham Jones

Stephen Graham Jones revisits the slasher film genre in the wake of My Bloody Valentine 3D to show how we may just be on the verge of another slasher renaissance.

Wednesday, February 11 2009

Urban Fairytales and Political Ghosts

By Abby Margulies

With the setting shifting from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, recent Israeli films are showing an evolution in storytelling away from nationalism and war and towards the fantastic and the interiority of everyday life.

Tuesday, February 3 2009

Rossellini and the Filter of Neo-Realism

By Chadwick Jenkins

These films flaunt their artifice and yet there are moments when something else emerges -- some rarefied emotion that we connect to reality.

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