Showing posts with label film review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label film review. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Real American arthouse: The brilliance and beauty of Malick’s ‘A Hidden Life’

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In a season when Scorsese’s extra-long, extra-dramatic, CGI-tainted Irishman is the foremost topic of conversation among U.S. cinephiles...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Cinema in the time of computer graphics: De Niro’s “jaundice face” and other side-effects of The Irishman

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Two young actors not seen in The Irishman. I spent a good part of my adolescence and 20s worshipping Martin Scorsese as a filmmaker....
Thursday, November 30, 2017

Kaurismaki’s latest film brings ‘Hope” to adult viewers

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Tired of seeing movies made for children, teens, or urban hipsters? Then sink into the world of Aki Kaurismaki, where people smoke, drink, ...
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Friday, October 2, 2015

Lost and found: an unofficial trilogy of films by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

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Quiet, understated works, flawed though they may be, deserve to be praised in this louder-by-the-minute era. Thus my love for the work of...
Monday, October 27, 2014

Uncle Jean in three dimensions: 'Goodbye to Language'

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Older filmmakers are not big on innovation. Funhouse deity Jean-Luc Godard is not your standard older filmmaker, though. He’s an icon, a ...
Monday, May 12, 2014

His better half: Richard Ayoade's 'The Double'

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There is something inherently cinematic about a lot of the best recent “alternative” British comedy, and yet none of the most likely susp...