We’re halfway through the American Cinematheque’s wonderful Fassbinder retrospective, and if it’s demonstrated one thing, it’s that a Fassbinder double bill is a hell of a lot of cinema. His work rate was so prolific that one would assume a film here and there to have been merely tossed off. Some of them were, […]
Movies
Film Rant: Hide Away (Dir. Chris Eyre 2011)
Hide Away is the simple story of a man who buys an old ship and fixes it. Even the main characters are simply named the Young Mariner (Josh Lucas), The Ancient Mariner (James Cromwell), and The Waitress (Ayelet Zuerer). The movie is not so much concerned with complicated plot lines as it is with the […]
‘Moonrise Kingdom’ Further Secures Wes Anderson’s Auteur Status
With familiar faces and deadpan comedic moments, Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom is full of the lovable craziness you expect from this auteur.
Film Rave: Hysteria
Tanya Wexler’s Hysteria makes its point as a lighthearted comedy about the invention of the vibrator once a woman breaks out into an aria from “La Traviata” after receiving hands-on stimulation from her doctor. Hysteria is not the average romantic comedy, nor is it a biographical account of how the vibrator was invented in London, […]
Film Rave: Lovely Molly
A hand-held camcorder accepts the task of portraying the first-person account of an event. It records the action, and by doing so records to memory what happened on a specific day, at a specific time. Lovely Molly‘s director Eduardo Sanchez pioneered the use of the first-person camera, commonly called found-footage, in his debut film alongside […]