As long there as there are young people living out their dreams in cities, there will always be young filmmakers eager and willing to follow them around churning out Bohemian anomie portraiture. Kids in urban settings constitute a broad enough arena of exploration that we'll always have the good (P...
Read More »EDITOR'S NOTE: This review was originally published as part of indieWIRE's coverage of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "Amreeka" opens this Friday.
Read More »This review was originally published as part of indieWIRE's coverage of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
Read More »This review was originally published as part of indieWIRE's coverage of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "We Live In Public" is being released in theaters this Friday.
Read More »This review was originally published as part of indieWIRE's coverage of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "We Live In Public" is being released in theaters this Friday.
Read More »About five minutes into R.J. Cutler's "The September Issue," an almost-expose of the production of Vogue magazine's annual fall spectacular, electroclash act Ladytron's icy "Destroy Everything You Touch" spikes on the soundtrack. By this point Cutler's already established his hands-off nonfiction f...
Read More »Hirokazu Kore-eda's films are haunted by the specter of death -- from the exquisite undercurrent of loss infusing "Maborosi"' to the explicitly gimmicky conceptualization of the hereafter in "After Life" to the looming danger hovering over the abandoned children of "Nobody Knows". His latest, "Still...
Read More »Although frequently identified as America's quintessential national pastime, baseball contains an undeniable global component that has become commonplace in movies about the sport. Look no further than this year's sleeper hit "Sugar," a bittersweet story of Dominican players drafted for American tea...
Read More »You've seen this empty canal before. Some boys and a dog were running around here, across the street and into it, just a few minutes ago. But you're not prepared, five minutes into "The Headless Woman," with a sunny pop song on the car radio, for the protagonist to hit something. Yet you'll spend th...
Read More »This review was originally published as part of indieWIRE's coverage of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival
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