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Crazy Horse
For a documentary film about a subject as titillating as the Parisian club Crazy Horse’s nude show, a filmmaker has two obvious choices, metaphorically linked to the camera itself: does he zoom in and
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A Separation
Playing out in the hallways and backrooms of crowded municipal courts, A Separation is a movie held up by words, which in this world have a sort of incredible power, capable of destroying the
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The Adventures of Tintin
It’s good to have Steven Spielberg back. It’s been a while since we had a proper picture from the man – while 2005′s surprisingly gritty Munich showed off a surprisingly grown-up Spielberg devoid of
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
We live in the Information Age, and David Fincher has become its prophet. Increasingly, his protagonists engage foremost in pursuing and processing information, but even before that, his stylistic signature displayed a hyperawareness of
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Carnage
After another critical comeback of sorts with The Ghost Writer, Roman Polanski has made a decidedly smaller picture, adapting Yasmina Reza’s Tony-winning play God of Carnage for the screen, trimming this comedy of ill
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The Muppets
It says quite a lot about the enduring ability of Jim Henson’s menagerie of puppets to control our emotions and affections that, when told I was going to an early screening of The Muppets,
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Hugo
Delmore Schwartz’s short story “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities” depicts a young man’s dream of entering a movie theater, sitting down to watch the film and realizing that he’s seeing footage of his parents’ courtship.
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Rediscover: Harakiri
Revisit: Harakiri Dir: Masaki Kobayashi 1962 Rediscover is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that have flown under the radar and now deserve a second look. Masaki Kobayashi’s Harakiri begins as a wandering
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Melancholia
{Melancholia}’s prologue allows Lars von Trier to indulge in floridly vivid imagery that piles abstraction on to the literal at such length it begins to feel as if the entire film will be presented
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Into the Abyss
In the later portion of his career, Werner Herzog has become one of our most important documentarians, carrying a worldview equally weary and wide-eyed from the fictional milieu to stranger-than-fiction realities. In the past
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