The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006

By PopMatters Staff

For many of the movies on PopMatters' 2006 list of the year's best films, it is clear that a heavy personal and professional stake was riding on the final product. [11 January 2007]

The Science of Sleep (La Science des rêves) (2006)

By Jesse Hassenger

This film revels in blurriness; not just in the line between director and fictional character, but between people, languages, and of course, between sleeping and waking, between living and dreaming. [20 March 2007]

The Science of Sleep (La Science des rêves) (2006)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Written and directed by the ever inventive Michel Gondry, The Science of Sleep is a gorgeous, weird, mesmeric movie, with adorable animated reveries to represent Stéphane's subjective state. [29 September 2006]

French director Gondry would rather play with paint than pixels [21 June 2007]