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Friday, January 16 2009

The New Classics - The 30 Best Films of 2008

Unlike previous years, where classics came crawling out of the celluloid woodwork with regular reckless abandon, 2008 was more calm… and considered. That's not to say that choosing 30 top titles was hard. The difficulty in placing them in some manner of rank order suggests the actual depth of quality involved.


Columns

Thursday, January 8 2009

Guerrilla Patton

Soderbergh's supersized retelling of the Che Guevara legend is an uncomfortable mix of war procedural and unabashed hero worship; ingenious but flawed.


Reviews

Friday, February 12 2010

Che: Part One and Two

'Che' draws together the contadictory tendencies of the revolution with those of an ambitious filmmaker who has visions of a better cinema while still firmly mired in a commercial system.


Tuesday, January 13 2009

Che

Che is about the dissemination of Che Guevara the icon, as it is also the saga of Che refashioned.


News

Thursday, February 26 2009

‘Che' director Steven Soderbergh's revolutionary filmmaking

It's a face recognized even by those who know nothing about the man behind it. He peers at us fromT-shirts and posters and magazines, a…


Thursday, January 22 2009

Behind the scenes of ‘Che' with Steven Soderbergh

"I can't sit here and tell you I think movies make any difference at all," director Steven Soderbergh says, halfway through a bowl of soup…


Thursday, January 15 2009

Fast chat with ‘Che' star Benicio Del Toro

You've seen the T-shirts. Everywhere. With that face - the beard, beret, eyes burning with revolution. Yet, few people know much about the man behind…


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