Posts Tagged ‘film’
Custodial Interference
If you want a sharp little thriller, take The Lookout to the bank.Kristian Lin
Saying that The Lookout is a terrific little film may sound patronizing, but it’s actually high praise.
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Big TicketFor all of you who were outraged when Pan’s Labyrinth lost the Best Foreign Film Oscar to The Lives of Others, you can see the latter film this week and take comfort in the fact that it’s pretty good, too. And if that doesn...
Men With Choppers
Wild Hogs is bad enough to make you trade in your motorcycle for an SUV.KRISTIAN LIN
Some years ago, political satirist Mark Russell observed that guys caught in mid-life crises tended to handle them in one of three ways: They bought motorcycles, cheated on their wives, or became spies for the Soviets. He wound...
What’s the Big Idea?
Three movies this week are dominated by men and their obsessions.KRISTIAN LIN
George Bernard Shaw once wrote, “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
The Way to Wonderland
It’s tough to bring a beloved fantasy novel to the screen, as this movie shows.Kristian Lin
An unusual number of people have come up to me in the last month or so to tell me how marvelous they found Pan’s Labyrinth.
A Lonesome Dove and a Yalid
KulturFilmmaker David H. Hickey is an oddity in these parts — he generally avoids making movies about dead teenagers.
Violation
Breaking and Entering makes hash out of big issues, and that’s a petty crime.Kristian Lin
Anthony Minghella made his name as the director of lush, cosmopolitan, epic literary adaptations with period settings, beginning with The English Patient in 1996 and continuing through The Talented Mr. Ripley and Cold Mountain.
Capturing Katrina
A local filmmaker’s forthcoming documentary on the storm’s aftermath is apolitical in a political way.Brian Abrams
David Redmon might be the most earnest documentary filmmaker around. His subject matter is always edgy, he finances all of his projects himself (to avoid any implied or explicit biases and to have complete artistic control), an...
Off the Island
Letters From Iwo Jima is an Oscar nominee, but it falls short of the hype.Kristian Lin
Clint Eastwood shot Letters From Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers as companion pieces.