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Jesus' Son 11 Nov 2009 | 04:17 pm
Billy Crudup and Samantha Morton in Jesus' Son (dir. Alison Maclean, 1999). Billy Crudup and Jack Black. Denis Johnson's 1992 book of short stories Jesus' Son not only leaves its narrator unnamed, b...
Where the Wild Things Are 1 Nov 2009 | 03:41 am
A wild thing with James Gandolfini's voice and Max Records in Where the Wild Things Are (dir. Spike Jonze, 2009). J. Hoberman, in his Village Voice review, refers to Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Thin...
Drag Me to Hell 25 Oct 2009 | 06:34 am
Adriana Barraza, a goat, and Alison Lohman in Drag Me to Hell (dir. Sam Raimi, 2009). Commercial horror with the vicious glee and exuberant silliness of an EC comic. Sam Raimi appears, on the evidenc...
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 20 Aug 2009 | 07:12 am
Miyuki Takeda in Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 [Gokushiteki erosu: Renka 1974] (dir. Kazuo Hara, 1974). The intensity of some films makes one not only overlook their technical limitations, but...
Pit and the Pendulum 10 May 2009 | 07:48 am
Barbara Steele in Pit and the Pendulum (dir. Roger Corman, 1961). Larry Turner as the young Don Medina. Vincent Price. The second of Roger Corman's eight or so Poe adaptations (depending on which o...
The Wrestler 8 Feb 2009 | 01:44 pm
Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler (dir. Darren Aronofsky, 2008). Mickey Rourke has never been one of my favorite actors, and it's odd that this stale dirty-realist draaaaama should show him to best advan...
Top Ten Films of 2008 13 Jan 2009 | 01:28 pm
This year's list took some padding and slippery conceptualization before it would satisfy me. If it had been a list of just comedies, it would have been easy to complete: many of the top ten are comed...
Gran Torino 12 Jan 2009 | 05:35 pm
Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Brooke Chia Thao, Chee Thao, and Ahney Her in Gran Torino (dir. Clint Eastwood, 2008). The critical controversy surrounding Gran Torino is that Walt Kowalski (Eastwood) is a...
Synecdoche, New York 11 Jan 2009 | 05:04 pm
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Samantha Morton in Synecdoche, New York (dir. Charlie Kaufman, 2008). The heading for one of the message board threads at the IMDb page for Synecdoche, New York reads, "May...
Across the Bridge 5 Jan 2009 | 08:08 am
Rod Steiger in Across the Bridge (dir. Ken Annakin, 1957). A businessman (Rod Steiger) fleeing to Mexico to avoid prosecution for financial corruption throws a fellow passenger off the train in order...
