Rueful and bleak, obsessed with memory, bad faith and failure, Jean-Luc Godard’s In Praise of Love is a doggedly serious…
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TV film version with Richard Chamberlain: The Bourne Identity (1988) VHS The Bourne Identity has an absurd premise that’s as…
As Time Out begins, middle-aged white collar worker Vincent (Aurelien Recoing) has been out of work for weeks. He spends…
Alejandro Amenabar’s The Others opens in darkness, with a lulling, disembodied voice addressing the audience as children gathered for a…
Y Tu Mama Tambien opens in mid-grunt, as a young couple frantically makes love. Ana (Ana Lopez Mercado Ortega) is…
Wes Anderson’s films are all or nothing propositions. If you don’t give yourself over to their peculiarities, they may seem…
As the credits rolled at the close of No Man’s Land, Danis Tanovic’s scabrous satiric fable about the Bosnian war,…
Unsettling and audacious, Richard Kelly’s debut feature Donnie Darko is, without question, this year’s best apocalyptic time travel movie featuring…
You won’t miss the point of Life as a House, since the filmmakers have helpfully explained the metaphor in the…
As his own filmmaking curdles into empty virtuosity – Bringing Out the Dead, The Age of Innocence and Casino are…
Our Lady of the Assassins is Death in Venice with 9mm Berettas, the creeping decay of a fading city replaced…
the novel on which the film is based "Everything that is new is automatically traditional," a character says in Jean-Luc…
While several hundred graduating seniors yell and throw their mortar boards into the air, two girls skulk out of school….