I’ve spent the last decade staying away from the films of M. Night Shyamalan. I loved his early ones, even the much-maligned The Village, with its insane double twist and loopy ...
The director of Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian talks in depth about styles of acting and expressing a sense of displacement Last fall at the New York Film Festival, the filmmaker Arnaud ...
Without presuming to know or explicate the “reasons” for the off-and-on hard drug use that apparently killed Philip Seymour Hoffman at age 46, it’s safe armchair-psychoanalyzing to say that he ...
Since the days of Napster, Hollywood films have been readily available online. Conversely, the Internet has been seeping into Hollywood films since the Eighties. Twin teenage comedies—WarGames (83) ...
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The more things change: Ava DuVernay offers a sometimes indirect portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. at a crucial moment Selma begins with the camera squarely framing Martin Luther King Jr. (David ...
Vox populi: Peterloo shows the perilous struggle behind an 1819 democratic protest for voting rights in an era of crushing inequality Three-and-a-half years in the making, and just about two centuries ...
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