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LARRY FLYNT: THE RIGHT TO BE LEFT ALONE
Fascinating, Funny — Necessary Everyone is familiar with the term “embedded journalists” — reporters living with units of soldiers in Iraq, going everywhere they go, up to and including battle. But...
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ZENTROPA (aka EUROPA)
Zentropa is literally a mesmerizing film. As it begins, a hypnotist’s voice (Max von Sydow) directs you to go “deeper and deeper” as he counts to ten. You are watching train tracks disappear faster...
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12
“12″ is a very Russian version of Sidney Lumet’s TWELVE ANGRY MEN directed by Nikita Mikhalkov, whose BURNT BY THE SUN won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1994. It’s a stunning...
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BIG MAN JAPAN
BIG MAN JAPAN is the most hilarious movie I have seen in a long time. It is also original, imaginative, deeply Japanese and, in a delicate, yet mass-market way, universal. It is co-written, directed...
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LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD
Disclosure: I agreed to review this release months ago. I was swayed by memories of youth and rococo hotel rooms. In college, I studied French and Italian – and everything those supple languages...
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HITCHCOCKED
What’s the quickest and most painless way to learn to write a screenplay? No, it’s not the Robert McKee bonding weekend, which I have always thought must have been based on the brainwashing chapter in...
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Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy: ROME OPEN CITY/ PAISAN/ GERMANY YEAR ZERO
Of the many ways in which The Criterion Collection fulfills its mission of being the world’s de facto cinematheque, none is more important than its recent restoration and release of Roberto...
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SCANDINAVIAN BLUE: THE EROTIC CINEMA OF SWEDEN AND DENMARK IN THE 1960S AND...
And now for a book named, appropriately, after cheese – Scandinavian Blue, a scholarly study of the era of increasingly no-holds barred sex in Scandinavian film that made the names “Sven” and “Inge”...
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