Dark City: The Director’s Cut
In the final few years of the 20th century, a heady sort of trend emerged ...
Summertime DVD Break
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No Laughing Matter
The Dark Knight touches a collective nerve with its relentlessly bleak vision
It has broken numerous box office records, has ...
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The Wackness
An audience award-winner at Sundance, The Wackness is a rather ambitious feature-length debut.
Not only did writer/director Jonathan Levine ...
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Summer LOL-in'
The Fist Foot Way and The Promotion
There’s an important bit of screenwriting wisdom stressing the odd but undeniable ...
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No lawyer jokes, please: Terror’s Advocate on DVD
Having made an up-too-close-for-comfort and way-too-personal documentary back in 1974 on the horror known as Idi Amin Dada, Barbet Schroeder ...
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Standards and Practices
Standard Operating Procedure
One of our greatest filmmakers tackles one of our greatest shame
“When you’re in war, things change.”
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"The Thief of Baghdad"
Criterion recently released a beautifully restored edition of 1940’s charming and still spectacular The Thief of Bagdad. Producer Alexander Korda ...
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On Ugliness
The horror of The Strangers is all-too effective, but to what end?
What are the terms of the contract ...
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"Son of Rambow"
What is it about a child’s mind that turns the countryside into a rolling symphony of righteous, invisible explosions when ...
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Film Notes (May 15, 2008)
David Mamet has gotten more press over his recent muddleheaded Village Voice essay renouncing liberalism (If you haven’t yet read ...
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