Hilarious and quintessentially French, Audrey Tautou and Gad Elmaleh sparkle, shine, and maximize the power of the romantic comedy in the glitzy world of golddigging on the Riviera, with him…
No matter how detached or aloof any of us pretends to be, there’s a thumbs-up and thumbs-down part in all of us. Herein lies an irony in the person of…
An affront to humanity and art that doesn’t deserve any more time or space than this (but if you must, this and this are recommended).
Peter Sellers’ trademark quirkiness, this time manifest through an uptight factory manager with a tight but not tight enough reign on his voluptuous daughter, rules I’m All Right, Jack, a…
He may be known more for his music (justifiably) and his dancing (damn, could he dance), but some of my earliest memories of Michael Jackson had to do with his…
While in Bookshop Santa Cruz the other day, I noticed a placard with the following quotation from Oscar Wilde (which captures the spirit of the line if not the exact…
Yeah, it may not be that one, but this effort – adaptation, really (it is a play, people) – from Sydney Pollack that captures some of the most comedic performances…
It would be very easy to see It Happened One Night only through the spectacles of conventional gender theory (yawn). This kind of interpretation would blab about male superiority, female…
Cute enough to be endorsed by and viewed with the namesake of this blog, Son of Rambow‘s strengths flourish in its first half, when its story’s spontaneity is driven by…
Many have said that Adaptation. is simply an artsy-fartsy exercise in pretentious (read: self-reflexive) filmmaking. Indirectly, then, many have said the same about most of Charlie Kaufman’s efforts (Being John…
Another work from Godard; this one comes after Passion, and clearly follows its style and themes. This time, however, narrative elements are stolen from Godard’s own Pierrot Le Fou, but…
With recent stuff like Ratatouille and Wall-E, Pixar has set the bar so high for itself that no one bothers to hold others to its standard. (Like poor Dreamworks; did…
