More spiritual conjurer than filmmaker, Thailand’s Apichatpong (“Joe”) Weerasethakul has built an astonishing body of work in a short time….
Read More
Perhaps it’s fitting that Townes Van Zandt never fully broke into the big time. Had he made it as big…
Read More
Neil Jordan’s career is marked by an impressive number of risky ventures. Perhaps none was more risky than refusing the…
Read More
Bob Wake’s review of the Masterpiece Theatre version It’s a commonplace that directors like Woody Allen and Roman Polanski, still…
Read More
At various points in Fade to Black, last year’s stellar concert film documenting Jay-Z’s sold-out show at Madison Square Garden,…
Read More
Much of the actual wedding crashing that gets done in the new movie of the same name takes place in…
Read More
Ordinarily, when a guy follows a girl around obsessively in a movie, it’s not a good sign. But when the…
Read More
When it comes to war documentaries, Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov doesn’t exactly leap to mind. Sokurov, a disciple of the…
Read More
Known for his glacial pacing and deliberate, opaque storytelling, Russian director Alexander Sokurov would seem to be the ideal candidate…
Read More