Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, for whatever elegance and classiness it has, is an homage to the kind of movie represented…
George Wu
George Wu holds a masters degree in cinema studies from NYU. He eats, drinks, and sleeps movies. Fortunately, he lives in New York City, the best place in the country for disorders of this type. He also works on the occasional screenplay when inspiration strikes, but his muses don't slap him around enough.
The New Directors/New Films series is one of the most anticipated film events on the calendar in New York City,…
Israeli media called Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s documentary The Inner Tour “subversive and treacherous” according to press notes. Watching this relatively low-key…
Son of the Bride opens with a young boy discovering that his ball has been slashed apart in the shape…
Knowing that The Mars Canon is a Japanese film, the title might bring to mind an anime actioner with some…
In person, Todd Solondz could be a character from one of his movies. Not terribly well dressed with a nerdy…
Last Orders has a lot in common with Robert Altman’s latest, Gosford Park. Both feature an all-star cast of Brits…
Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr is known, if he is known at all, for Satantango, an astounding 7-1/2 hour long black-and-white…
The Devil’s Backbone is a welcome addition to the resurgence of films trying to capture the feel of classic horror….
In legal terms and in terms of voluntary restrictions enacted by the media on itself, American society is now as…
Like other Tsai Ming-Liang films, What Time Is It There? is tonally odd, light in dialogue, unconventional in its photographic…
After seeing the comedy Warm Water Under a Red Bridge, the title itself becomes a joke. Coming from Shohei Imamura,…
In The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Woody Allen plays CW Briggs, insurance investigator for slipping company Northcoast in early…