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    REVIEW | Sweatin' to the Oldies: Darryl Roberts's "America the Beautiful"

    by Michael Koresky on July 31, 2008

    Opening with "vintage" black-and-white footage of women from the Fifties huffing and puffing through antiquated exercise routines, set to Bruce Channel's "Hey, Baby," the ostensible investigative documentary "America the Beautiful" establishes its de-facto glibness within seconds. Throughout the cou...

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    REVIEW | Soft Shoe: Alex Holdridge's "In Search of a Midnight Kiss"

    by Kristi Mitsuda on July 29, 2008

    From "Sunset Boulevard" to "Mulholland Drive" and beyond, most movies revolving around Hollywood hopefuls portray the greater Los Angeles area as a soulless cesspool into which the hordes can't help but sink. But in his Tinseltown-set feature "In Search of a Midnight Kiss," Alex Holdridge reimagine...

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    REVIEW | Dropped Ball: Paul Weiland's "Sixty-Six"

    by Leo Goldsmith on July 28, 2008

    There is a certain class of British film -- for which John Boorman's "Hope and Glory" is perhaps the prototype -- which follows an adolescent boy's coming of age during a notable or sentimentality-laced period of twentieth-century English history. Invariably in such films, there is a female object o...

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    REVIEW | Carnival of Old Souls: Margaret Brown's "The Order of Myths"

    by Michael Koresky on July 24, 2008

    It may come as something of a shock to most that in Mobile, Alabama, a culturally sanctified segregation still exists. And documentary filmmaker Margaret Brown must be relying on that shock from viewers of her exacting new film "The Order of Myths," even if it resolutely avoids sensationalism or pol...

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    REVIEW | Walking in the Air: James Marsh's "Man on Wire"

    by Michael Koresky on July 22, 2008

    A blow-by-blow account of how, in 1974, the impish French performance artist, and ludicrously appropriately named Philippe Petit achieved (and survived) the seemingly otherworldly when he walked on a tightrope situated 1350 feet in the air, anchored between the World Trade Center's twin towers, Jame...

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    REVIEW | Disconnect Four: Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass's "Baghead"

    by Michael Koresky on July 19, 2008

    A refreshingly high-concept low-budget outing, the Duplass Brothers' "Baghead" is an immensely likeable and surprisingly well-executed genre hybrid. The difficulty one finds in trying to categorize it is part of its charm, and this is not just whether one sees it as horror, comedy, or relationship r...

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    REVIEW | Post Traumatic Stress: Aditya Assarat's "Wonderful Town"

    by Michael Koresky on July 17, 2008

    In many ways, the debut feature from Bangkok-born, American-educated Aditya Assarat, "Wonderful Town," has all the hallmarks of a workshopped Sundance indie: an eminently tasteful romance between two ingratiatingly sweet people burgeoning against a backdrop of recent tragedy, buoyed by delicate guit...

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    REVIEW | Sympathy Strike: Charles Oliver's "Take"

    by Leo Goldsmith on July 15, 2008

    Like Lee Chang-dong's 2007 "Secret Sunshine," Charles Oliver's debut feature "Take" deals with the awkward moral quandaries of infanticide and the subsequent, touchy relations between a killer and his victim's mother. That Lee's film remains unreleased in this country is no doubt due in part to the ...

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    REVIEW | Dear Johns: Jacques Nolot's "Before I Forget"

    by Michael Koresky on July 11, 2008

    The catchwords for "Before I Forget" would seem to be direct, intimate, unsparing; yet, conversely, it also feels cavernous and, in its seeming brutal frankness, slippery and elusive. Either drenched in unyielding shadow or flooded with harsh light, "Before I Forget" follows the sixty-something Pier...

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    REVIEW | The Material World: Silvio Soldini's "Days and Clouds"

    by Kristi Mitsuda on July 9, 2008

    In its detailing of a couple's financial freefall after the loss of a job, Silvio Soldini's "Days and Clouds" -- recently featured in the Film Society of Lincoln Center's annual roundup of new Italian cinema -- couldn't ask for a more fittingly precipitous point in time for its American theatrical r...

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