The very best movies of this ilk inevitably evoke the spirit of their protagonist with the very sinews and bones of their structure. Hence a movie on Mishima that’s wild with heavily striking mise en scene. A Brian Wilson story that is empathetic, hallucinatory, and musical to the nth degr...
The very best movies of this ilk inevitably evoke the spirit of their protagonist with the very sinews and bones of their structure. Hence a movie on Mishima that’s wild with heavily striking mise en scene. A Brian Wilson story that is empathetic, hallucinatory, and musical to the nth degr...
Livingston counters that her film burlesques the power structure through slick footage of affluent images spliced into the film to contrast with the dreary ballroom. In fact, the jumps between Harlem and Fifth Avenue are sometimes so fast that, for a comic moment, the viewer might mistake societ...
Nick Nolte, American actor known for playing dysfunctional leading roles, often cast as characters with tough exteriors and secret complex sensitivities. His notable movies included North Dallas Forty, 48 Hrs., Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Cape Fear, T
A moustachioed Mancunian angel of death with a mouth like a Salford sewer and a mind teeming with useless information, Thewlis guarantees the film’s central place in our cultural pantheon for another century at least. Tom Huddleston Arts and culture journalist Advertising 13. The 39 Steps (...
For all its racial and cultural issues, though,Angel Heartis still a compelling, hauntingly atmospheric mystery with some “press Pause and think about it” twists that make you want to give it a pass — like that casually racist uncle who always gives you the best birthday presents. ...
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Her face is imperturbable--”a saucer of cream” somebody once said--but she cuts the serenity with a startlingly intense gaze like the one she used to snooker poor Annabella Sciorra in “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.” A good girl, bad girl. Or is it the other way around?
” Documentary cinema may have been in its infancy (this was the same year asNanook of the North), but writer-director-star Benjamin Christensen was already aware of the value of its appropriation, opening the film with background, acknowledgements, and history, wrapping his dramatizations of ...
“Guillermo del Toro was unquestionably the most visible and voluble directorial presence on the fall festival circuit this season, and the beautiful film he brought with him provided a lot to talk about. A traditional fairy tale mated with a Cold War monster movie, it also features a mute ...