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How Acclaimed Indie Director Gus Van Sant Finally Got Milk A tale of two movies
Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, 1992 to be exact. Gus Van Sant, the filmmaker who had just thrilled the world with his... More>>
Published: November 27, 2008
Milk: Proposition Hate Biopic recaptures Californian intolerance at exactly the right time
Gus Van Sant has never been what you’d call a risk-averse filmmaker, but he directs his Harvey Milk biopic so carefully, there might be a... More>>
Published: November 27, 2008
Australia: Somewhere Over the Dateline Baz Luhrmann's not quite marvelous land of Oz
You don’t have to have been raised on colonial Brit Lit, classic melodramas, Westerns, war movies, or Gone With the Wind to predict the... More>>
Published: November 27, 2008
TV REVIEW: Suspicious Eyes — One Muslim Family, Two Views of Terrorism in Britz on BBC America
Plus, The Joy of Crooking: Leverage on TNT
Sometimes it seems that the only Muslim characters in contemporary drama are either Islamic extremists (no!) or nonthreatening friends of the... More>>
Published: November 27, 2008
Bad Girls Club: Cheap Perfume and Boozy Breath
New, for season three, a full hour of crazy-chick eroticism
It is useless to ignoreThe Bad Girls Club, starting its third season on Tuesday. It is the crack cocaine of unhinged party-girl... More>>
Published: November 27, 2008
Movie Reviews: Ben X, Four Christmases, Special, Transporter 3 Also, Fix, Lake City, The Matador and more
THE BEAUTIFUL TRUTH Writer-director Steve Kroschel’s documentary preaches (and preaches and preaches) the gospel of Dr. Max Gerson, who, in... More>>
Published: November 27, 2008
Bolt's Leashed Lightning Disney's latest toon is a starry dog story
With his blazing white coat and pig-pink ears, to say nothing of the zigzag of lightning cut into his flank, the eponymous canine lead of... More>>
Published: November 20, 2008
Catherine Deneuve: Belle De 50 Ans The actress on her new film, A Christmas Tale, and her long, glorious non-career
Siren. Icon. Muse. You can apply any or all of those labels to Catherine Deneuve but trying to make any one of them stick is trickier than... More>>
Published: November 20, 2008
David Thomson: Notes On Canons, Pantheons and a Century of Cinema
An exclusive excerpt from “Have You Seen ... ?” A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films
Choosing their top 10 is a game most film critics are accustomed to — and one that allows depressives to ask, “Are there really 10... More>>
Published: November 20, 2008
Kitchen-Sink Experimentalism (Re-)Discovering Coleen Fitzgibbon
One of the gratifying side effects of contemporary media overload and its frequent inanity is a keen hunger of viewers for challenging,... More>>
Published: November 20, 2008
Joan Crawford: The Eyes Have It UCLA salutes the brilliant, misunderstood actress
No actress in movie history was more ambitious and got a bummer rap because of it than Joan Crawford, née Lucille Fay LeSueur, who would... More>>
Published: November 20, 2008
Political Theater
The strange spectacle that is Hugo Chavez’s presidency
Somewhere between Barack Obama’s plan for direct YouTube communiqués to the people (“firewall” chats, you could call... More>>
Published: November 20, 2008
Movie Reviews: Twilight, Dostana, Eden Also, The Dukes, Toots, I Can't Think Straight and more
GO DOSTANA Carefully established as womanizing wolves trolling Miami, male nurse Sameer (Abhishek Bachchan) and photographer Kunal (John... More>>
Published: November 20, 2008
Fall Film: Delta Blues, in Black and White How Lance Hammer earned his beautiful new film Ballast
When the lights came up after the first screening of Ballast at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, an audible murmur of surprise rolled... More>>
Published: November 13, 2008
Fall Film: A Christmas Tale Arnaud Desplechin comes home for the horror days
Pick a film by Arnaud Desplechin, and likely as not you’ll find a house full of labile French hobgoblins stewing volubly over old wounds... More>>
Published: November 13, 2008
Fall Film: From Manchester to Mumbai with Danny Boyle A Filmmaker Less Ordinary
I’m telling Danny Boyle over coffee that his new film, Slumdog Millionaire, is his best by far. “I hope it comes across that I had a... More>>
Published: November 13, 2008
Fall Film: Robert Downey, Sr. — A Prince Like Son, Like Father
Before his son and namesake grew up to be the edgiest Hollywood actor of his generation, Robert Downey Sr. enjoyed a small measure of celebrity... More>>
Published: November 13, 2008
Fall Film: Quantum of Solace James Bond, neither shaken nor stirred
Those of us who adored Casino Royale, the 2006 reboot of the haggard, self-parodic James Bond franchise, had some trouble trying to decide where... More>>
Published: November 13, 2008
Fall Film: Slumdog Millionaire: Game Show Masala Bollywood Meets Hollywood
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Well, who wouldn’t in this economy, even if the currency in question is rupees and winning the loot means... More>>
Published: November 13, 2008
TV Review: HBO's Summer Heights High, Starring Chris Lilley, King of Gestalt Comedy Three characters, one actor — high school musical chairs
What do an up-talking, status-obsessed, private-school queen bee named Ja’mie; an excitable, if power-mad, drama teacher called Mr. G,; and... More>>
Published: November 13, 2008
Home Is Where the Gore Is Cinefamily gives amateur splatter kings their due
Even gore ain’t what it used to be in this digital age, when the cheapest horror remakes and sequels are as polished as they are soulless.... More>>
Published: November 13, 2008
The Decency Chronicles
Filth and parental control, 1960s-style
Britain’s most famous umbrage-taker in its culture wars was a churchgoing, priggish art teacher/housewife who swung right back at swinging... More>>
Published: November 13, 2008
Film Reviews: Antarctica, The First Basket Plus, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, The Alphabet Killer and more
THE ALPHABET KILLER Any number of TV shows in recent years has depicted an out-of-the-ordinary investigator who either talks to ghosts, sees what...