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    Loony Bin: Terry Gilliam's "Tideland"

    by Indiewire on October 9, 2006

    It's amazing the mental leaps one will make in attempts to compensate for a trusted filmmaker's deficiencies. Delusions of mad, misunderstood genius fall away quickly in Terry Gilliam's "Tideland." Not to put too fine a point on it, but what Terry Gilliam's latest creation elicits from its first mom...

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    This Is Hardcore: John Cameron Mitchell's "Shortbus"

    by Indiewire on October 2, 2006

    "Shortbus," John Cameron Mitchell's first film since the raucous and more than a tad melancholic "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," opens with another decidedly masculine-featured diva transplanted to America from Europe: the Statue of Liberty. With bold, smooth glides, the camera caresses the faded green...

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    NYFF CRITICS NOTEBOOK: The Best, the Worst and a Festival Revelation

    by Howard Feinstein on September 29, 2006

    The best and worst lines of dialog from the first half of the "demanding, inflexible, and insanely selective" (per the trailer) New York Film Festival come from, respectively, Stephen Frears's amusing character study "The Queen" and Todd Field's facile "Little Children." "At the end, all Labour prim...

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    Slaughter Rule: Kevin MacDonald's "The Last King of Scotland"

    by Indiewire on September 26, 2006

    Call me a typically history-ignorant American, but before watching "The Last King of Scotland" I didn't know that much about Idi Amin's reign of terror as Uganda's dictator during the 1970s. I don't pretend to be proud of such an oversight -- nevertheless, that lack of knowledge worked to this viewe...

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    Dream Weaver: Michel Gondry's "The Science of Sleep"

    by Indiewire on September 20, 2006

    Michel Gondry's "The Science of Sleep" should have been the restorative after an unspectacular summer for movies -- a year, actually. One could put their blood into the profession if movies such as "Superman Returns," "Talladega Nights," or "Little Miss Sunshine" were abysmal or brilliant, extreme i...

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    Nature Boys: Kelly Reichardt's "Old Joy"

    by Indiewire on September 18, 2006

    There is a scene midway through American director Kelly Reichardt's "Old Joy," adapted from the novel by John Raymond, in which its two principals, Mark (Daniel London) and Kurt (Will Oldham), share a conversation beside a roaring bonfire. They are en route to a secluded hot-spring in the Cascade Mo...

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    Trivial Pursuit: Allen Coulter's "Hollywoodland"

    by Indiewire on September 5, 2006

    A concept in search of an intriguing tale to tell, "Hollywoodland" dredges up the true-life Hollywood scandal surrounding the death of TV's Superman, George Reeves in 1959. It's that old murky-glossy peek into the sordid flipside of fame, here coupled with wan commentary on American masculinity, the...

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    The Great Divide: Andrew Bujalski's "Mutual Appreciation"

    by Indiewire on August 28, 2006

    Is Andrew Bujalski the cinematic voice of a mumbling, inarticulate, moderately employable generation, or a talentless student filmmaker who's managed to spin a single badly done trick into an honest-to-goodness moviemaking career? There's not much I can say, and most certainly nothing in "Mutual App...

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    Silent but Deadly: Jamie Babbit's "The Quiet"

    by Indiewire on August 21, 2006

    Contemporary films taking "The Suburbs" as their setting and subject always make a point of poking holes in that wealthy, white facade of perfection that supposedly plagues America. The intended innovation of "The Quiet" is to present the obligatory collapse of this phony exterior from the perspecti...

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    Ham-Fisted: Bent Hamer's "Factotum"

    by Indiewire on August 14, 2006

    The effort necessary to excavate Henry Charles Bukowski from beneath the weight of his cult is significant; I've never been entirely convinced that it's worth the effort. At one time his might've been a rare voice that said exactly what a disgruntled few needed to hear -- reading a piece by Brendan ...

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