Email Author Michelle Orange

2010 Stories by Michelle Orange

• Hamlet Meta-Treated Twice Over in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead

  published June 1, 2010

  Hamlet gets the meta-treatment in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead, a hipster vampire farce that layers genre goofs over a... More >>

• The Tyranny of Attraction in Mademoiselle Chambon

  published May 25, 2010

  Discretely drawn and elegantly photographed, Mademoiselle Chambon gives a French, working-class love triangle the Brief Encounter... More >>

• Entre Nos, Tribute to an Immigrant Mother's Survival

  published May 11, 2010

  The postscript reveal that Entre Nos, which follows a newly single immigrant mother as she ekes out a living on the streets of New York,... More >>

• Looking for Eric Takes a Village

  published May 11, 2010

  What might strike American viewers as the most quizzical thing about Looking for Eric, Ken Loach's humble ode to soccer heroes and... More >>

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  OSS 117: Lost in Rio, A Spy Film Parody

  published May 4, 2010

  In gleefully ripping on both classic spy movies and T&A-obsessed Frenchmen, OSS 117: Lost in Rio reasserts the primary definition of... More >>

• Kieran and Michele Mulroney's Drab Paper Man

  published April 20, 2010

  An artist-in-crisis piece run through a drab but quirk-conscious indie processor, Paper Man is everything a film like Lost in... More >>

• Disney's Visually Stunning Oceans

  published April 20, 2010

  An almost miraculously photographed showcase of some of the seven seas' least seen and most incredible specimens, Disney's Oceans (a... More >>

• Documenting Our Crooked Educational System in The Cartel

  published April 13, 2010

  A union-busting doc with an adamant—if not quite apolitical—focus on the children slipping through the cracks, The Cartel... More >>

• The Impressively Shot, Incoherent Pornography: A Thriller

  published April 13, 2010

  Ambitiously layered and almost completely incoherent, Pornography: A Thriller is a somber thesis film buried under a host of... More >>

• The Oddly Inert Indie Thriller, Don McKay

  published March 30, 2010

  A strange, largely inert indie thriller, Don McKay has got good bones (inspired by Blood Simple, it has a solid cast and a strong... More >>

• The Sun Behind the Clouds Charts Impasse of Tibet's Struggle

  published March 30, 2010

  Documenting both the largest Tibetan uprising since the 1959 Chinese takeover and the Dalai Lama's pre–Beijing Olympics diplomatic tour,... More >>

• Lbs.: It's Definitely Hard to Make a Film About Being Fat

  published March 24, 2010

  A couple of days into their cold-turkey detox in the woods of Upstate New York, childhood friends Neil (Carmine Famiglietti), a compulsive... More >>

• Anne Bass's Dancing Across Borders

  published March 24, 2010

  When 16-year-old Sokvannara Sar, a charismatic Cambodian with a gift for his native folk dances, arrived in New York City in 2001 as the... More >>

• Kornél Mundruczco's Incest Movie, Delta

  published March 9, 2010

  A strangely elegiac incest movie, Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczo’s Delta relies so heavily on ellipses and atmospherics... More >>

• For My Father, Old-School Social Melodrama (Plus Bombs)

  published January 26, 2010

  Israel seems to have its own form of prestige cinema, where tortured suicide bombers and rending intergenerational conflict signal what period... More >>

• Amos Gitai Puts His Life on Film (Again) in Carmel

  published January 12, 2010

  Much is taken for granted in Carmel, Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai's highly—almost exclusively—personal film collage. An... More >>