In this art exhibit and interview, Tim Lowly invites us to challenging stories by painting his daughter Temma as an icon of sorts, pointing us outside our selves and our comfort zones, toward God and the other.
How do you “rate” movies? Or do you? Should we even bother?
Hughes has begun uploading his thoughts on the San Francisco International Film festival, starting with Bluebeard and Adoration. (I don’t think I have ever heard someone say: God bless you, Catherine Breillat. I have no greater love/hate relationship with any director but her.) And Michael Guillen is on home territory again, with lots of thoughts […]
It’s an undeniable fact that CGI has changed the face of animation. Whether you’re talking about the style and aesthetic, the production methods, or simply the time and effort involved, the impact of computer animation has been huge. In fact, I daresay that it’s becoming difficult for some folks to think of animation as anything […]
If you haven’t had a chance yet to see Nuri Bilge Ceylan‘s acclaimed new feature Three Monkeys, don’t work too hard to catch up with it. The movie is coming to you… tomorrow. Three Monkeys will stream on Sunday, April 26, on www.theauteurs.com. And if that’s not enough Ceylan for you, you can make it […]
Just posted at Poetry Daily. Not sure what the copyright situation here is, so just a few lines: And I would reach out in the post-apocalyptic dark of the movie theater for those handles grafted in between the other animals, those ones that used to eat one another, the handles that marked my place in […]
In all these references in the essay to process, Abrams is talking about mystery for mystery’s sake, which doesn’t parallel art for art’s sake as much as it bisects it at an inopportune angle.
The lineup for the 2009 Festival de Cannes was released today. Many notable entries here, but I know I and at least one other Filmwell critic have been rejoicing that Pixar’s Up is opening the festival – the first animated film to ever do so. Other fabulously notable directors with work at Cannes will be […]
Despite coming out over a decade ago, the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion remains a potent cultural force in Japan. In fact, while traveling through Japan a few weeks ago, I was amazed at the number of advertisements for the new Evangelion movie — which comes out June 27, 2009 — as well as the […]