The lavish flashbacks towards the end are aesthetic counterpoints to his vanishing flesh, part of a quiet rhythm that winds down refusing to tell us whether Sands was a fool or not. He simply moulders in these synecdoches of mortality.
The Silver Anniversary edition of the Chicago Latino Film Festival gets underway this week in the Windy City, featuring over one-hundred films from more than a dozen countries across Latin America, Spain and Portugal.
“For years, we were living in a dream.”
When my wife saw me pick JCVD off the video store’s shelf, she gave me a look that was part confusion, part disapproval, and part disdain. Not that I blame her, mind you. After all, is there anyone who, as a result of such cheesy action titles and direct to video flicks as Death Warrant, Maximum […]
Several works by the world-renowned artist Damien Hirst that confront the boundaries between art, pop culture, science, and our views on life and death.
Which movies have, from the very first frame, given you the sense you’re being guided by a masterful artist? Which opening shots are worthy of close study?
Eric Severson explores the neglected day of Christianity’s Holy Saturday by way of Plato’s concept of khora, offering a perspective on Sabbath that includes the darkness and despair of the “middle day.”
Reports are spreading that Abbas Kiarostami is directing Juliette Binoche in a French-language romance.
In the face of imminent disclosure, a mocking irony is often the shield of choice to defend one’s fragile sense of self-worth. That’s what makes SPECIAL so special (might as well get that out of the way): the filmmakers absolutely refuse to treat their hero (that, too) as an object for the viewer to feel superior to.