Around the conventional sci-fi gimmick of time travel (post-WWIII), Chris Marker develops a love story and a meditation on memory that puts you in mind of Resnais. (He collaborated on some of Resnais's shorts in the Fifties, and was included, with Resnais, in the Left Bank group of the New …
Irrationally romantic remake of a South Korean film with the Italian name of Il Mare, set in a Lifetime Channel fantasyland where every romantic hero is an architect (the artistic businessman), every romantic heroine is a doctor (the nurturing career woman), and every dream house is on the water (the …
Gruesome but unconcernedly lighthearted monster movie featuring a thirty-foot Asian crocodile who has somehow migrated to backwoods Maine. The dialogue, by the TV writer-producer David E. Kelley, has some snap and crackle, and Bridget Fonda is especially funny as a paleontologist who has no field experience but is not hesitant …
Neil LaBute’s neighbor-from-hell thriller, no more than mildly provocative by his toughest standards (In the Company of Men, Your Friends and Neighbors, et al.), details the escalating ill will between a newly arrived interracial couple (Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington) and the long-ensconced, widowed black policeman next door (Samuel L. Jackson), …
Documentary directed by Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli, starring Phyllis Young, Henry Red Cloud, and Nick Tilsen.
Billed as a movie lover’s dream for a reason: the eye hasn’t seen this much color on screen since Vincente Minnelli passed. The songs and musical numbers are lively, the cast attractive, all attempts to transform city streets into expressionistically lit studio backlots successful, and the ending decidedly downbeat. And …
A large number of largely unknown actors and musicians (it's fairly easy and interesting to distinguish which are which) are plunked down in front of a camera to talk to it about their pursuit of the Hollywood success dream, with a lot of abrupt cutting in mid-thought, from one person …
A movie about a professional oral reader (Miou-Miou) does not promise to be much of a movie. And accordingly the moviemaker, Michel Deville, has made sure that her clientele conforms to a standard of eccentricity matching that of the clients in Belle de Jour. (Not an altogether inapt reference point: …
The comedy that scandalized Mexico! Mexico, if the ad copy can be believed, must be easily scandalized. A heavy-handed satire of the ruling political party, set discreetly -- to soften the blows -- fifty years in the past and in a puny backwards pueblo. The blows will make themselves felt, …
Aspiring cricketers are unfairly kicked off the team despite their talent. They must deal with and overcome this setback to achieve their dreams. Directed by Aishwarya Rajinikanth.