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The Candy Colored Darkness of Full Grown Men
Thursday June 26, 2008
Unlike the man-children currently swarming the multiplexes, David Munro's Full Grown Men is "a cautionary tale" about the pathology of a man-child named Alby on a Florida road trip—and whether a thirty-something guy can eventually become a man.
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Angelina Jolie: America's Most Wanted
Thursday June 26, 2008
Angelina Jolie: she's an enigma, an idea, the "sexiest woman in the world." But what is it about her charisma that makes her so necessary to Hollywood? Why do kinetic thrill rides like Wanted utilize her better than buttoned-up Oscar-bait?
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Fighting Fires with Finding Amanda
Tuesday June 24, 2008
If you spend any time with Finding Amanda, the debut feature from Emmy Award winning screenwriter Peter Tolan, you might draw the conclusion that he likes to start fires as much as fight them.
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The Personal is Political in Brick Lane
Thursday June 19, 2008
Sarah Gavron's adaptation of Monica Ali's best-selling novel Brick Lane is a familiar tale of a repressed woman empowering herself to make choices, rendered vividly new through the eyes of a Bangladeshi immigrant in London.
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Ballad of a Lonely Traffic Cop
Tuesday June 17, 2008
In a city of sunny weather and spit-clean sidewalks, Expired explores the other side, the beleaguered world of Los Angeles traffic cops, that special breed of police officer who are treated like the scum of the earth.
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The Reelist: The Sweet Science of Swagger
Wednesday June 11, 2008
Feeling some superhero fatigue? Looking for a creation myth that doesn't involve the touching story of how CGI effects find themselves? What you need is a film with swagger.
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O Canada: My Winnipeg and Guy Maddin
Wednesday June 11, 2008
Canadian director Guy Maddin wrestles with the old ball and chain—his hometown—in his newest work, 2008 Festival alum My Winnipeg.
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An Invitation to Visit CrushedPlanet.com
Thursday June 05, 2008
Crushed Planet, the new website by documentarians Harry and Joe Gantz, is giving filmmakers artistic and financial freedom. Check out the new online portal for edgy and exciting film.
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Review Stew: The Edge of Heaven
Thursday May 29, 2008
Might the German-Turkish film director Fatih Akin be a major filmmaker? If the reviews for his fifth fictional feature, The Edge of Heaven, are any indication, the Golden Bear-winning talent is very much one to watch.
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Growing Up Alongside Sex and the City
Wednesday May 28, 2008
Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samatha make their big-screen debut this week, but what sort of legacy are they leaving behind to the girls in their wake? Abby McDonald explores the past ten years of Sex.
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Through the Looking Glass with Ed Lachman
Tuesday May 13, 2008
Over the past thirty years, cinematographer and director Ed Lachman has established a fascinating and eclectic oeuvre. As BAM celebrates him this month, we talk to the trained painter about paying tribute to Douglas Sirk and catching Madonna on the Lower East Side.
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Will Oldham is Missing and 'Special' in The Guatemalan Handshake
Monday May 05, 2008
"I set out to make a movie just a little weirder and more beautiful than maybe it ought to be," says first-time director Todd Rohal. "And really,” he adds, “I just set out to make a film I could call The Guatemalan Handshake.”
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Writing on the Walls
Thursday April 17, 2008
Jon Reiss' sensational documentary Bomb It! (TFF '07) examines the long history, global reach, and complicated politics of contemporary graffiti culture.
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Catholic Guilt
Wednesday April 09, 2008
The gripping new documentary Constantine's Sword examines former Catholic priest James Carroll's personal struggles against the backdrop of centuries of religious intolerance, in an effort to understand why people think they can kill in the name of God.
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The Reelist: Coming to America
Immigrant stories are a familiar cinematic trope, but what about the ones that happen behind the screens? In light of Michael Haneke and Wong Kar-wai's stateside debuts, this Reelist looks at other foreign directors' first American films.
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Revenge, Revised
Tuesday March 25, 2008
With his new feature Shotgun Stories (TFF ’07), first-time director Jeff Nichols offers a fresh twist on the classic revenge narrative.
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The Many Faces of David Gordon Green
Tuesday March 11, 2008
The indie auteur's latest, Snow Angels, may be a snowbound tragedy, but the film's many moments of awkward humor and adolescent yearning reveal its maker's underlying eclecticism.
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Festival Lineups Announced for World Narrative, World Documentary, and Encounters Sections
On Tuesday, the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival announced the lineups for its World Narrative and World Documentary Feature Competitions, as well as its Encounters section, bringing together a group of 45 films that are international in scope, yet deeply personal in their concerns.
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Screen Grabs: Bad Behavior
Eliot Spitzer's downfall feels like something out of the movies, and there was plenty of bad behavior unfolding on movie screens last week. It showed up in the conclusion of The Wire, the return of Harold and Kumar, the remake of Funny Games, and plenty of other places.
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Review Stew: Chicago 10
Here's what the critics have to say about Brett Morgen's bold new documentary/animation Chicago 10, which marries rotoscoping and archival footage to retell the events that followed the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
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