One of the most respected figures in world cinema today, Hungarian film auteur Bela Tarr- known for his distinctive highly stylized black and white long takes, apocalyptic stories and melancholic rhythm enhanced by a dramatic score from Mihaly Vig- delights his audience with one last hypnotizing cinematic experience The Turin Horse (2011). Embodying the cinematic […]
I’m sorry to do this guys. I really tried not to care. After the first installment saw exactly one major female character, and she was constantly clad in a miniskirt, I really did try. I loved the movie so much. It was moving and beautiful and geeky and cool and fun. But it bummed me […]
When I first saw Rushmore, alone at the Franklin Mall AMC Cinema 6, it was both an effort to ditch my Friday afternoon Intro to Philosophy class and a need to see what the “Bottle Rocket Guys’ would do next. I enjoyed Bottle Rocket, but had sort of dismissed it as a kind of offbeat, […]
In many ways, Baz Luhrman was the perfect director to adapt The Great Gatsby. He really gets the idea of spectacle that covers up inner emotional turmoil (hell, that was pretty much the point of Moulin Rouge). And The Great Gatsby is all about the way the excess of the roaring 20s belied an inner […]
To say that I love Ender’s Game would be an understatement. It is one of the books (along with The Giver, Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy, and The Prydain Chronicles) that really defined books to me back when I was a young budding nerd and JK Rowling was still an unemployed single mom living on the dole. […]
Take a box of tissues and leave your grandparents at home, Michael Haneke is in town! The Austrian writer/director who brought us The Piano Teacher (2001), Cache (2005), and the critically acclaimed 2010 Golden Globe Best Foreign Film winner The White Ribbon (2009), makes a return with another darker-than-ever psychological family drama, Amour (2012). The film- […]
Director and Co-writer of the latest Iron Man installment Shane Black was handed an unenviable task: after a massive critical and financial success in the Marvel-verse, he got to follow it up. His smartest move was in creating an entire movie based on answering a question posed by Captain America in that expectation-busting flick, “Big […]
Derek Cianfrance, director of Blue Valentine and his debut film- the unreleased/unseen Brother Tied- has just released his third film, The Place Beyond the Pines. After the phenomenal performance of Ryan Gosling in Blue Valentine, the two teamed up again to take audiences to the place beyond the pines, where issues of morality are ever present […]