I listed Minority Report as my #1 film of 2002, and ten years later the thing I find most surprising about that fact is how brave I felt and counter-cultural I thought I was being. In …
Sometimes in doing these retrospectives, ten years seems like no time at all. At other times, it seems like forever. Here is what Catherine Zeta-Jones has done since nabbing an Academy Award for Best Supporting …
Sometimes in doing these retrospectives, ten years seems like no time at all. At other times, it seems like forever. Here is what Catherine Zeta-Jones has done since nabbing an Academy Award for Best Supporting …
I have been busy podcasting over at Film Geek Radio. New episodes include discussions with Todd C. Truffin about Blue Like Jazz, Primary Colors, and Love Free or Die. Click on any of these links …
Girl Model is the most starkly depressing movie I’ve seen since… Well, see, that’s an interesting question. At a scant seventy-eight minutes, it lacks the sheer mass of Eugene Jarecki’s The House I Live In or …
“Make your own work.” While that is not the sum total of Alberto Tihan’s advice to aspiring actors nor a comprehensive summary of his own strategy for success in a difficult profession, it does provide a …
Admittedly, my two favorite moments in Bess Kargman’s First Position happened when nobody was dancing. In the first, eleven year-old Aran Bell, who has arrived in New York City for the finals of the Youth America Grand …
Big Boys Gone Bananas!*, aside from having the distinction of the hardest title in awhile to spell correctly, is the kind of film of which every documentary film festival needs at least one. It’s not exactly a feel good story, but it is a feel better story.
Not just one of the best documentaries at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Lauren Greenfield’s The Queen of Versailles deserves to be in the conversation as one of the best films of 2012. What begins …
About a decade ago, in another place, another time, I met with the rector at the Episcopal church I was attending. “It’s just hard to motivate yourself to go to work,” I said, “when you …