A collection of eleven comic sketches filmed over a period of almost two decades by Jim Jarmusch, all of them involving, if not actually revolving around, coffee and cigarettes (or in one case, tea and cigarettes) and the various restaurant tables on which these are arrayed. Each takes place in …
Jeff Hann's documentary profile of Sasa, a coffee crusader.
James Ward Byrkit completes his journey from storyboard artist (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest) to story man (Rango) to writer-director with this overextended but mostly enjoyable trip into the Twilight Zone. (The writing is sharp and clear; the direction tends toward jittery-jumpy, with frequent fades to black thrown …
Angels visit the site of an elementary school hostage crisis.
Underworld comedy, veering between deadpan and stone cold dead, about a dweeby bookie who gets promoted to hitman and, under the caring tutelage of an old pro ("Remember. Guns don't kill people. We kill people"), discovers hidden natural talent. A crush on his lactose-intolerant yoga teacher steers the comedy down …
Erik Nelson takes 16mm outtakes from William Wyler's 1943 war documentary, The Memphis Belle and filters the footage through the spoken recollections of nine veterans, among the last survivors of the War in Europe.
Dag Hammarskjöld died in a plane crash on September 17, 1961 while traveling to negotiate a ceasefire in Katanga. Danish journalist and documentarian Mads Brügger concludes that had he lived, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations’ mandate that Africans live their lives in full independence would have put an …
Difficult to put a finger on why this is so much more cold than comfort. The premise, from Stella Gibbons's "beloved" novel, seems promisingly amusing: Miss Flora Poste, just orphaned at age twenty-three, means to live off the charity of relatives until, thirty years or thereabouts hence, she gets around …
If Mike Figgis, following his string of digital-video experiments, wanted simply to prove he could still make a regular movie, then the present project might be termed a success. It could hardly be more "regular," an obvious and overwrought thriller about a New York family (Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, and …
Well and deservingly known as cinematographer for such people as Chantal Akerman (Jeanne Dielman, News from Home) and Yvonne Rainer (Lives of Performers, Film about a Woman Who...), Babette Mangolte takes over the director's seat for this study of a young female painter trying to find her bearings in the …
Under pressure from his traditionalist grandfather, a Japanese junior executive revises his vacation plans (golfing in Hawaii) so as to perform the proper memorial ritual for his long-gone parents at the site of their accidental deaths: Iceland. (The image in the opening scenes in Japan is compressed to boxy TV …
What kind of movie — what genre of movie — is this, anyway? It starts out as a classical but lurid mystery thriller; then wanders off on a search for a shared border between horror/fantasy and honest-to-God religious art; then takes a final superhuman broad jump into the purview of …
A hard-working family man (Michael C. Hall, given a distinct mullet and Billy Bob Thornton makeover) kills an unarmed home invader only to face exacted terrible retribution from the boy’s recently paroled psycho-daddy (Sam Shepherd). Cape Fear meets 8mm in this thriller that never quite wrenches the gut enough to …
Star Henry Cavill is gonna play Superman! But not here.