Email Author Nicolas Rapold

2011 Stories by Nicolas Rapold

• David Cronenberg Interview

  published November 17, 2011

  "They were experimenting on themselves," says David Cronenberg, with no small amount of satisfaction, about the psychoanalytic all-stars of his... More >>

• Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu Review

  published October 6, 2011

  For a long while, Andrei Ujica's darkly ironic compilation film about dumpy, disastrous Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauescu feels like a... More >>

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  Life in a Day Review

  published July 28, 2011

  Kevin Macdonald's edited compilation of 80,000 donated YouTube videos is billed as a snapshot of the world on July 24, 2010, whatever that would... More >>

• Son of Anarchy, Father of a Critic: A Tribute to Jean Vigo at UCLA

  published April 7, 2011

  Luce Vigo, the French critic and daughter of the beloved Jean Vigo, finds it funny: At 80 years of age, she's asked to reminisce about her father,... More >>

• Certifiably Jonathan

  published March 31, 2011

  CERTIFIABLY JONATHAN An uncanny mimic and quick-change improviser, Jonathan Winters is one of those great performers who sweep... More >>

• The Last Lions

  published February 17, 2011

  GO  THE LAST LIONS As aficionados of the Puppy Bowl can attest, attaching stories to the comings and... More >>

• The Housemaid

  published January 27, 2011

  THE HOUSEMAID Fifty years after Kim Ki-young's postwar hothouse original, Im Sang-soo attempts a sleek, breathless update to... More >>

• Bruce Dern, Udo Kier, M. Emmet Walsh

  published January 13, 2011

  Rudolf Arnheim wrote, "The character actor shows man as he is; the heroic actor shows man as he would like to be." The German... More >>

• Summer Wars

  published January 6, 2011

  SUMMER WARS An apocalyptic take on the social network comes from, of all places, Mamoru Hosoda's childlike, yay-go-team... More >>