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2005 Stories by Michael Atkinson

• Film

  published February 15, 2005

  In 1962, beloved and controversial poetess Forugh Farrokhzad went to Azerbaijan and made this short film on the grounds of a leper colony,... More >>

• Film

  published February 15, 2005

  Four years after May '68, Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin examine the wreckage: fading workers' empowerment, media fatuity, capitalist... More >>

• Pimp, Prostitute Crazy in Love in Korean Drama

  published February 8, 2005

  Although wildly antithetical, Kim Ki-duk's The Isle and his faux-Buddhist breakout Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter . . . and Spring... More >>

• Film

  published February 8, 2005

  BAM's month of creep-out Mondays and Tuesdays is a variety pack of genre extremes. The trad gory gothic is represented by Lamberto Bava's... More >>

• Pulp and Circumstance

  published February 1, 2005

  For the fifth year in a row, the staff of America's leading—make that only—non-academic magazine about movies reassembles its... More >>

• 200 Days of Solitude

  published January 25, 2005

  Maven of the pensive in-between, Hirokazu Kore-eda has landed firmly on earth as we know it since the high-concept metaphysics of 1998's After... More >>

• X, Lies, and Videotape

  published January 18, 2005

  Traditionally, the post-New Year's months are a dumping ground for half-baked horror boondoggles, and in the narrowest sense, Nicolas Winding... More >>

• Couped Up: Self-Regard Trivializes Chilean Historical Memoir

  published January 11, 2005

  A new Chilean film that touches down in urban/suburban Santiago mere days before the September 11, 1973, coup d'état that murdered Salvador... More >>

• Film

  published January 4, 2005

  For those who think they've got Takashi Miike pegged as a slapdash, taboo-targeting pulp pope, consider this monstrously neglected 1998 beauty, an... More >>

• Film

  published January 4, 2005

  A zippy, nasty 1998 Dutch film that only hit U.S. screens in small festivals, Robert Jan Westdijk's low-life melodrama seems ripe for an American... More >>

• Film

  published January 4, 2005

  Already ranking with the Japanese absurdist-comic likes of Miike, Kurosawa, and Sabu after only a handful of films, Toshiaki Toyoda is a restless... More >>