Review: Caramel
Wednesday January 30, 2008
A comedy about women who work in a beauty parlor has the potential to be syrupy -- especially if the title is Caramel. But the titular hair removal substance used ... Read More
New on DVD: Rocket Science
Wednesday January 30, 2008
Jeffrey Blitz's Rocket Science belongs up there with the best of recent coming of age sagas – in the company of such teen classics as Wes Anderson's Rushmore and Terry ... Read More
Maggie Gyllenhaal Initiates Girl-on-Girl Threesome In Support of Writers
Wednesday January 30, 2008
The Golden Globes telecast was a fiasco. The Oscars are still in jeopardy. The Writers Strike goes on. Nikki Finke continues to provide comprehensive coverage of the situation, but ... Read More
Frozen River Wins Grand Jury Prize at Sundance
Sunday January 27, 2008
Courtney Hunt's debut film Frozen River won the dramatic grand jury prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. The film tells the story of a struggling single mother (Melissa Leo) ... Read More
Review: 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Friday January 25, 2008
Winner of the Cannes Festival's Palme d'Or, celebrated at festivals, and snubbed by the Oscars, Cristian Mungiu's devastating drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days arrives in American cinemas ... Read More
Sundance: Deals, Deals, and More Deals
Thursday January 24, 2008
The big payout of Sundance 2008 went to Hamlet 2, which was bought by Focus Features for ten million dollars. The reliably hilarious Steve Coogan (Tristam Shandy, Coffee and Cigarettes) ... Read More
New DVDs: Agnès Varda, The Kingdom II, Molière
Wednesday January 23, 2008
Out this week on DVD: the Criterion Collection's essential box set 4 by Agnès Varda, featuring films by the French New Wave filmmaker, including Vagabond and Cleo from 5 to ... Read More
The 2008 Oscar Nominations... Should Be
Tuesday January 22, 2008
Sundance Watch: Polanski Doc Sells, Sordid Tales of Swag
Monday January 21, 2008
If the reports are to believed, Christine Jeff's dark comedy Sunshine Cleaning is nothing like the perky Sundance sensation Little Miss Sunshine, but the film's star Emily Blunt (pictured with ... Read More
Sundance 2008 In Full Swing
Friday January 18, 2008
The Sundance Film Festival kicked off last night with a screening of Irish playwright Martin McDonagh's debut film In Bruges, a dark comedy about contract killers with a conscience. The ... Read More
Foreign Film Shortlist Snubs Critics' Favorites
Wednesday January 16, 2008
The shortlist of nine contenders for the foreign-language Oscar was announced Tuesday. Disturbingly absent were many of our favorites from 2007: Cristian Mungiu's riveting abortion drama 4 Months, 3 ... Read More
New on DVD: Syndromes and a Century
Tuesday January 15, 2008
The latest film by Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul (he has invited Western audiences to simply call him "Joe") arrives on DVD today. Released in the U.S. to much critical acclaim ... Read More
Atonement Wins Best Drama at Golden Globes Telecast
Sunday January 13, 2008
Due to the ongoing writers strike, the 2008 Golden Globes was reduced to a live telecast. No red carpets, no acceptance speeches, not even a classy press conference. Instead, NBC ... Read More
Review: Summer Palace
Friday January 11, 2008
Ye Lou's Summer Palace uses recent events in China's history as a backdrop for an intimate story about young lovers. Full frontal nudity (both male and female) and references to ... Read More
New DVDs: Smiley Face, Caterina in the Big City, Sunshine
Tuesday January 8, 2008
Stoner jokes, coming of age in Italy, and a gorgeous Benetton ad in space--it's a great week for new DVD releases. Make sure to check out Greg Araki's hilarious comedy ... Read More
Natasha Lyonne Returns With Mike Leigh Play
Sunday January 6, 2008
She was my favorite rising star: Natasha Lyonne, with that throaty voice, curly hair and big eyes. As the knowing teenage narrator in Woody Allen's musical Everyone Says I Love ... Read More
Kaurismaki's Star Markku Peltola dies at 51
Tuesday January 1, 2008
Finnish actor Markku Peltola died Monday at age 51. Peltola was best known for his role in Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without a Past (2002), the story of a down-and-out ... Read More