Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/PopMatters Picks/Short Ends and Leader A Gaggle of Ghosts, a Brace of Bamboo, ‘A Touch of Zen’ By Michael Barrett / 12 July 2016 King Hu's martial arts masterpiece is a long, moody, beautiful, unpredictable film.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Short Ends and Leader ‘The Daughter of Dawn’ Is a Rare Native American Romance By Michael Barrett / 8 July 2016 The Comanches are the bad guys; the Kiowas are the good guys, and love conquers all in this previously lost film from the '20s.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/PopMatters Picks/Short Ends and Leader That’s Keaton, Buster: The Complete Silent Shorts By Michael Barrett / 7 July 2016
Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Short Ends and Leader ’99 River Street’ Feints and Punches By Michael Barrett / 28 June 2016 This noir throws several clever misdirections at the viewer.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Short Ends and Leader ‘The Magnetic Monster’ Lacks Magnetism By Michael Barrett / 20 June 2016 Something borrowed, something blah.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/PopMatters Picks/Short Ends and Leader When Words Aren’t Necessary on ‘The Naked Island’ By Michael Barrett / 16 June 2016 Kaneto Shindo's 1960 movie made a splash, disappeared, and has now resurfaced with Criterion.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Short Ends and Leader ‘Gold’ Shivers Rather Than Glitters By Michael Barrett / 15 June 2016 'Gold' sees Hitler's Germany working out the psychology of power within a bland sci-fi narrative weighed down by leaden acting -- and an excess of feathers.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Short Ends and Leader ‘Crimson’ Tests Even Those Most Committed to Eurotrash Film By Michael Barrett / 14 June 2016 The best thing about the Crimson DVD is the commentary by historian Richard Harland Smith.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Short Ends and Leader Fellini Doesn’t Want to Leave the ‘City of Women’ By Michael Barrett / 9 June 2016 The master incorporates every auto-critique in his exuberantly maestro-batory self-analysis.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/PopMatters Picks/Short Ends and Leader You Still Haven’t Seen ‘Clouds of Sils Maria’? By Michael Barrett / 8 June 2016 This beautiful film explores women's issues and relationships with depth and lightness, and nods to high art and popular art.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/PopMatters Picks/Short Ends and Leader Jodie Foster’s First Great Performance: ‘The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane’ By Michael Barrett / 25 May 2016 Why has this low-budget Canadian-French production flown under the radar?
Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Short Ends and Leader From Hungary to Hollywood: “The Undesirable” By Michael Barrett / 24 May 2016 At just over an hour, a lot happens in this broadly gestured, melodramatic story set in Transylvania.