Director Milos Forman and writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski make an ideal team. Forman makes movies so impossibly tasteful,…
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Frank is a London yuppie, roughly 30, who lives next door to a crackhouse. He’s kept the place for years,…
Woody Allen has a lot to answer for. His two great romantic comedies – Annie Hall and Manhattan – were…
From its plot, you’d think that Bertrand Tavernier’s It All Starts Today would be a chore. The tale of an…
Wong Kar-wei is best known in America for the vibrant, goofy visual pyrotechnics of Chungking Express and Happy Together. These…
Imagine the sales pitch. Giddy investors have gathered to hear the new idea from Lars von Trier, who is following…
Jane Campion is an exasperating filmmaker. She makes compelling – if uneven – films in a style so affected that…
culturevulture.net salutes Alfred Hitchcock (1899 – 1980) Twenty-one years after his death, Alfred Hitchcock remains the most imitated filmmaker who…
Steve Zahn makes a formidable idiot. No one plays stoned bemusement with such inspiration, such slow-on-the-uptake brilliance. In supporting roles…
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Detroit Rock City is the latest entry in a fine film genre with a distinguished pedigree: cheesy movies about rock…