In Fernando Eimbcke's film, a young man goes on a quest to fix his car, finding a human connection when he desperately needs it. At first glance "Lake Tahoe," the second feature by the 39-year-old Mexican director Fernando Eimbcke, looks very much like your standard minimalist import. Laconic characters, a fixed camera and unhurried rhythms amount these days to a lingua franca for international...
Pierre-Narcisse Guerin, The Return of Marcus Sextus , Oil on canvas, 217 x 243 cm, 1799 ( source ) "The characters in a tragedy, the places; the air one breathes-these are sometimes more fascinating than the tragedy itself, the moments preceding tragedy and those that follow it, when the action is firm and speech falls silent." - Michelangelo Antonioni
Style icons? David Bowie, Dennis Hooper & Fred Astaire Personal style quirk? Always leave room for assumption! Also, my accessories - I have my signature pieces made for me, and wear them all at the same time or not at all. If I have a business meeting I may not wear any accessories other than overstated cuff links. Any accessory must be a focal point, and really say something. Favorite designers...
8220;Are you staying or going?” That question, put to the brooding, itinerant Aldo (Steve Cochran), resounds through Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1957 film “Il Grido,” which screens at BAM on Nov. 9. It remains one of his least recognized films but also one of his most . . .
Image via Tom Sutpen. A flat expanse of landscape on the Po delta. A village of low, colored houses. The sidewalk continues beyond the end of the street. No more houses flanking it, only the sidewalk proceeding all by itself toward the embankment. At night there’s always a small empty truck, as though it’s owner lived there, [...]
Cortázar's vividly experimental, uncanny tales are among the best work of 'el boom' in Latin American writing Since his death in 1984, Argentine novelist, poet and short story writer Julio Cortázar 's reputation in the English-speaking world has fluctuated, the trend heading more towards a waning than a waxing. Known-of rather than widely read, some recognition is still afforded him...
This is art. While conducting interviews for his newest picture, Spike Jonze was pleased when I called his work a children's art film, stating that art films are considered a "dirty word" to studios. He thanked me. He didn't need to. We should thank him. Jonze's masterstroke, Where the Wild Things Are isn't just a children's art film, it's an art film in itself. It's...
Photo: Director Jack Arnold ( right ) shows star Grant Williams how to handle a giant prop used in the making of The Incredible Shrinking Man . If director Jack Arnold were alive today, he would be 93. A former stage actor and also a writer who occasionally co-authored his screenplays, Arnold was an underrated master of genre (science fiction, horror, westerns, film noir) and of film form, the only...
Films by Tim Burton will be screened at 1:30 p.m. Saturdays all month in the Film Vault of the KC Central Library. The lineup: •<strong>“Beetle Juice” </strong>(Saturday): Wacky f/x-driven film with Michael Keaton as a ghostly anarchist hired by a recently deceased couple (Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis) to rid their former home of its new owners. With Winona Ryder....
At Jil Sander, Raf Simons took the concept of deconstruction that has been creeping into the collections this season (ripping forms apart and putting them back together in a different way), and made it entirely his own. A clip from...
DVD Video Review: Alain Resnais's Muriel is a complex weave of past and present. Gary Couzens reviews Eureka's Masters of Cinema release of this influential film.
I caught and very much liked Tom Ford's A Single Man this morning. It's basically about passing through grief and despair and coming out alive on the other side. We're speaking of a very lulling and haunting thing to settle into. I can't rouse myself into full-on review mode, but the thoroughly readable feelings in the features of star Colin Firth -- longing, grief, numbness, curiosity, contentment...
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