Spruced-up reissue of the 1994 Wong Kar-wai film of the same name minus the Redux. The changes consist principally of a new musical score showcasing the plangent, pensive cello of Yo-Yo Ma. They have not, however, amended the confusion and disappointment in an arty, abstract, almost actionless martial-arts period piece …
From Sergei Paradjanov (The Color of Pomegranate, The Legend of Suram Fortress): more of the same, only less. There is the customary treasure chest of clothes and artifacts from another time and place. (Period: Once upon a Time. Setting: Fairy Land.) And a moment, early on, when a photographed still-life …
Qiao (Tao Zhao) is, and will remain, a woman in control, even after serving a 5 year stretch for possession of an illegal firearm. (The gun belonged to her gangster beau.) According to Qiao, “Anything that burns at a high temperature is made pure.” A boat trip up the Yangtze …
Those who knew Adam Goldstein — a pioneering plate-mate remixer who survived an airplane crash only to die of a drug overdose — called him a “digital shaman,” a DJ who assumed rock star status. He no more invented mashups than he did the wheel, but he was the first …
Directed by Jhett Tolentino, starring Dante Basco, KC Concepcion, Kevin Kreider, Geneva Carr, and Paolo Montalban.
A world-class Swedish symphony conductor (Michael Nyqvist, a big, strong Richard Burton-y pocked face) moves back to his native village with a bad heart, whips the church choir into competitive shape, upsets the local bluenoses, shelters abused women, wins the heart of the budding Jezebel, draws out the village idiot, …
Before Dr. Phil, Dr. Drew, and Dr. Laura began their careers as radio and TV advice dispensers, Ruth Westheimer was the pioneering therapist with whom Americans were on a strictly first-name basis. Who better to broach the subject of sex in graphic yet straightforward and wholly non-threatening terms than someone …
Depression-period romance, written and directed by Robert Towne, in a largely dark, nocturnal, unsunny Southern California, a star-crossed affair between a gringo and a Chicana, or more disparagingly a "dago" and a "spic," an impoverished young novelist taken under the wing, at long distance, of H.L. Mencken (whose voice in …
Two buds on the peaks, the slopes, the dangerous curves. The cute one wants to be a writer someday, but he's "got to live first," meet people, read books, be the hero in a featherbrained movie. Paul Gross, Peter Berg, Finola Hughes; written and directed by Patrick Hasburgh.
A young paramedic is paired with a seasoned partner on the night shift in New York revealing a city in crisis. Discovering the chaos firsthand, he is tested with the ethical ambiguity that can be the difference between life and death. Directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, starring Sean Penn, Tye Sheridan, …