Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, October 12 2009 The new Ricky Gervais film, THE INVENTION OF LYING, postulates a world in which no one has ever told a lie. We know this because the hero tells us all about it in an opening voice-over. It is the first, small warning sign that the movie may […]
It’s now even easier to access the film archives of Canada’s National Film Board, provided you have an iPhone (or iPod Touch): the NFB have just released their very own iPhone app. Most of the films that are available on the NFB website have been encoded for iPhone, with rest becoming available soon. You can […]
Through her paintings and contemporary installation art, Natalie Ball deconstructs known narratives of the Native American past and reconstructs them, intersecting her own stories with history by considering the authenticity of belonging, especially as defined by blood quantum, tribal binds, and ethnographic portraiture.
I ran across this spectacular review of Sorrentino’s recent Il divo, which much like Sokurov’s The Sun is a visually arresting psychological brief of a controversial political figure. I guess that is putting it too mildly, isn’t it. There is a formal anarchy to Il divo that outstrips Tarantino similar use of the same set […]
Unspoken Cinema has posted a nice new review of Tarr’s Werckmeister Harmonies full of great sentences like: From what can be seen as an adversarial position, Béla Tarr’s Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) chillingly exposes the other side of the loudspeaker – a film that is to the ordinary documentary what Goodfellas (1990) is to The Godfather […]
Among the things I have never really been able to shake are the few pages in the middle of Where the Wild Things Are that don’t even have words. There are just big, fat and feathery beasts cavorting, swinging from branches, and tumbling about in a stylized forest – and then the book gets back […]
Just Tweeted by Roger Ebert: Hitchcock and Tom Snyder, 1973, one hour long, long-lost interview, rediscovered. Droll. Good quality video. http://j.mp/4uqEPa
I was going to do my best to ignore the latest package of excrement labeled “American comedy”… the “film” called Couples Retreat. But then The Onion made it worth mentioning, by taking this opportunity to speak out more truthfully than any other film-review source on the sorry state of big-screen comedy in America. Vince Vaughn […]
Not all New Yorkers live in glitzy apartments and spend endless hours in martini bars or coffeeshops.