Email Author Nicolas Rapold

2010 Stories by Nicolas Rapold

• The Last Action Heroes

  published November 11, 2010

  Video-store fetish, Hollywood's shot in the arm, exotic staple of rep houses — Hong Kong action movies became synonymous... More >>

• COOL IT

  published November 11, 2010

  COOL IT The science of global warming is tough enough to evaluate without the sort of hard sell Ondi Timoner pushes on behalf... More >>

• Desperate Housemaids

  published November 4, 2010

  Come for the housemaids gone wild, stay for the trenchant sociological commentary. In a double bill spanning Korean history... More >>

• THE TEMPTATION OF ST. TONY

  published September 30, 2010

  THE TEMPTATION OF ST. TONY Estonian filmmaker Veiko Õunpuu follows the lead of Bosch and other painters in taking St.... More >>

• Movie Review: THE SICILIAN GIRL

  published September 9, 2010

  THE SICILIAN GIRL The facts are more gripping than the filmmaking in Marco Amenta's routine docudrama about tenacious teen... More >>

• Soul Kitchen: Fed Up

  published September 2, 2010

  Moving in just six years from critic-approved discovery (Head-On) to state-of-the-union melodrama (Edge of Heaven), with a... More >>

• Show Us Your Tatis

  published September 2, 2010

  Was any comic as fixated on (mis)perception as Jacques Tati? "Sight gag" doesn't begin to cover the worlds Tati designed: a... More >>

• Ken Russell: The Naked-Nun Theory

  published August 19, 2010

  "There really is no difference between nuns with no clothes on and tap dancers in goggles. It is all material," said Ken Russell. For the... More >>

• Mad Men

  published August 12, 2010

  Ultimately opting for Brakhage over butchery, this surprising horror debut, I Can See You, hits us where it hurts, by turning vision... More >>

• "Fuller at Fox": Weird Wars

  published August 5, 2010

  "What are your influences?" the potbellied video-store manager in Noah Baumbach's 1995 Kicking and Screaming asks... More >>

• Here Comes the Sun

  published June 3, 2010

  The sun, burning a hole in the sky, recurs in the opening montages of Donald Cammell's shape-shifting films. As shorthand for an ­everyday... More >>

• Critical Mass

  published April 15, 2010

  The 2009 Oscars "In Memoriam" tribute yielded a wonderful alternate-universe moment: In the obit roll call naming Charlton... More >>