Email Author Manohla Dargis

1998 Stories by Manohla Dargis

• Cinephobia

  published April 30, 1998

    I have been trying to get a picture that is worth reviewing, for the last two weeks, an... More >>

• All the King’s Men

  published April 16, 1998

  In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. —Pauline Kael... More >>

• Oy!

  published April 2, 1998

  Being Jewish on the American screen has always meant suffering indignities, whether historical, as in The Life of Emile Zola, or... More >>

• The Man

  published March 26, 1998

  Japanese director Takeshi Kitano's Fireworks is a funny, strange, elliptical, sentimental, intensely moving story about the absurd and... More >>

• Passion Play

  published March 19, 1998

  MEAN STREETS Directed by MARTIN SCORSESE Written by SCORSESE and MARDIK MARTIN Produced by JONATHAN T. ... More >>

• The Brothers Freak

  published March 12, 1998

  THE BIG LEBOWSKI Directed and written by JOEL COEN Produced and written by ETHAN COEN StarringJEFF BRIDGESJOHN GOODMANJULIANNE... More >>

• In the Flesh

  published March 5, 1998

  The "queen of the nudies" buttons her green suede coat and orders the photographer back another 10 feet: After a lifetime behind the camera,... More >>

• Vengeance Is His

  published February 26, 1998

  Best known here for Black Rain, his devastating shocker about the catastrophe visited on Hiroshima, Shohei Imamura is one of the greatest... More >>

• Bad Girl

  published February 19, 1998

  Before there was Sundance, before there was sex, lies and videotape, Harvey and Bob and Quentin, there was exploitation cinema - the original... More >>

• Days for Night

  published February 5, 1998

  Before: Although most of the Sundance Film Festival takes place in the small resort town of Park City, Utah, festival films are shown in the... More >>