Stalker pushes the limits of contemporary cinema, certainly of the narrative kind, past the point of normal accessibility. To break down physical spaces, colors, and textures of this film into…
Here is a film, of which there are not a few in Hithcock’s oeuvre, that strikes one throughout as much more than the sum of its parts while presenting itself…
Edited/revamped 3/23 I’m not sure if there’s a way to say anything substantial about Duplicity without giving away a lot of its story, which one really shouldn’t know before watching…
Hitch may or may not be any good, but watching a movie like this on your honeymoon guarantees it a certain thumbs-up status (he said shamelessly).
It’s refreshing to come across a “postcolonial” film that is about much more than postcolonialism (or “neocolonialism,” if you prefer). Tomás Guttiérrez Alea had a clear and legitimate political bent…
If Begotten does anything well, it’s showing the interconnectedness of abjection with suffering. Very little in this unusual piece doesn’t evoke ideas connoting the death drive: repulsion, disgust, horror, confusion,…
Apparently the time of cholera was a simpler time, a time in which men only had the brains to think of one thing through the duration of their lives and…
Without the perfected scenery or lovely cinematography of the recent Pride and Prejudice, Emma stands on Gwyneth Paltrow’s own very skinny two feet with enough personality and warmth—not to mention…
Precious Bodily Fluids 