An immaculate realization of clichés, a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit transmuted into a low-stakes male weepie, a bunch of college-movie stereotypes at play in a world of cruelly precise images—that
No film review will be read more eagerly this week than Scott Foundas's piece for the cover of the September/October issue of Film Comment. Facebook, he writes — and he's not on it, by the way
As I write, the city I live in, Berlin, is throwing a party for itself. As it should. Few events in the lifetimes of most of us deserve to be celebrated as heartily as the fall of the Wall. And while
*** The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’s world looks painted—like a painting, it’s a selective recreation of reality, history designed to the frame, with light traced in neat, neoclassical lines
What to do with an idiotic script? Douglas Sirk replied, “I realized maybe Jane Wyman could be right, and this goddamn awful story could be a success. And it was. My immediate reaction to Magnificent
I'm mad as hell, and I'll take it a little longer! One of the most basic, but most defining features of David Fincher's short filmography is the relegation of melodrama essentially to a one-note psychic