Olivia Lamasan co-writes and directs this story of a young man and a young woman seeking a new start — and perhaps a new love? — in a new place. In Filipino.
The story of Silverio, a Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles, who, after being named the recipient of a prestigious international award, is compelled to return to his native country, unaware that this simple trip will push him to an existential limit. The folly of his memories …
Barbet Schroeder, a tepid-blooded romantic with a trainbearer's attachment to society's runaways, has found here another recipient worthy of his attentions: a Charles Bukowski simulacrum named Henry Chinaski, full-time, round-the-clock drunkard who periodically rouses himself from a stupor to jot down some lines of lavatory-wall literature. Since Bukowski himself has …
On his pot gut and sagging shoulders, Paul Giamatti carries this wry, baggy treatment of Mordecai Richler’s last novel. A Montreal TV hustler, drinker, hockey gambler, and womanizer, Barney is a Jewish rebel devoid of cause or much excuse. But Giamatti doses the story in his caustic charm, even as …
Formulaic computer cartoon rounds up a group of pop-acculturated, smart-mouth, bipedal farm animals who all look like kitsch knickknacks from a souvenir shop, a menagerie of cream pitchers, salt shakers, piggybanks, paperweights, and toothpick holders; rubber, plastic, ceramic; felt-covered, feathered, frosted. The focal figure is a bovine party animal who …
The passive-aggressive daughter of a dead country singer (Allison Tolman) and her moneyed mother (JoBeth Williams) are living comfortably off the old man’s legacy until a headlong sister-from-another-groupie (Sophie Reid) comes along to claim her piece of the residuals pie. Half the fun of watching a movie like this is …
One of the earliest and still proudest examples of the Brazilian Cinema Nôvo, based on the celebrated Graciliano Ramos novel — a South American Grapes of Wrath — about a peasant family scratching out a living in the inclement Northeast. It offers a brutally materialistic vision of life, in the …
Kubrick's adaptation of the William Makepeace Thackeray novel -- the spiritual voyage of a naive Irish lad into face powder, lipstick, and ruination -- is after something quite far from Tony Richardson's adapatation of Tom Jones, low-born, crass, rowdy. Kubrick is after something high-toned, and he puts up numerous high-culture …
Melville's scrivener, and passive resister, transported into the present day and into a candy-colored burlesque. He remains recognizable, but loses much of his famous "humanity." David Paymer hits the right notes, at the right volume, as his bewildered boss. With Crispin Glover, Glenne Headly, Maury Chaykin, and Joe Piscopo; directed …
The Coen brothers (director Joel, producer Ethan, writers both) cut right to the heart of the role of the artist in Hollywood. They are too much artists themselves, however, to abide any idealizing or universalizing of their proxy on screen: a Broadway Bolshevik (modelled roughly and rudely on Clifford Odets) …