Features
Friday, January 11 2008
A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007
From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007.
Wednesday, January 9 2008
Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male
From the tender and eerie precision of Sam Riley's depiction of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Control to yet another superlative performance by Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, PopMatters highlights the best male actors of 2007.
Reviews
Tuesday, April 8 2008
There Will Be Blood
However fictional, Daniel Plainview is like history come to life -- more Frankenstein's monster than wax doll.
Friday, January 4 2008
There Will Be Blood
Land, oil, blood. There will be lots of all in Paul Thomas Anderson's stunning new movie.
News
Monday, January 4 2010
An epic for an epoch: Day-Lewis gives the performance of the decade
"I believe in plain speaking," says the man, sincerely, to a group of people whose land is hiding something he wants. Then you remember: Those…
Sunday, February 24 2008
There will be confusion: Deliberately vague films leave critic cold
Walking out of a press screening of Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood" in early November, I turned to a fellow critic in the…
Friday, January 4 2008
To his latest director, Daniel Day-Lewis is 'the man'
"Maybe it's presumptuous to say this, but from a director's point of view he's the Holy Grail of actors, isn't he? At least he always…
