BETWEEN GENIUS AND UTTER ILLITERACY: THE BEST OF ESTONIAN ANIMATION
November 13 through 16, Two Boots Pioneer Theater
Estonian animation? Buckle... More>>
In this wan Christmas concoction, lumbering human Buddy (Will Ferrell) leaves the elfin toy-making community that raised him and heads south to... More>>
A still-kicking Soviet-era film studio produces a Russian ark's worth of iconoclastic style
Michael Atkinson,
November 04, 2003
Established one year before United Artists was incorporated on the opposite side of the globe, and before the other Hollywood studios coalesced... More>>
The specter of the 20th century hangs heavily over this edition of MOMA's annual series celebrating recent films from Germany, now in its 25th... More>>
"You do not want to get stopped in Nashville with me in the car," hard-rockin' daddy Steve Earle warns a driver in his new tour film, Just an... More>>
Ripped from the headlines by a fortuitously situated pair of Irish tele-journalists, Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain, The Revolution Will Not... More>>
Shot in Black Panther Oakland in the early '70s, the legendary funkadelic independent Afro-centric underground blaxploitation film Space Is the... More>>
A French triple threat's fearless debut feature reopens wounds and redefines 'skin flick'
Dennis Lim,
November 04, 2003
About 10 minutes into In My Skin, French actor-writer-director Marina de Van's tour de force of existential and dermatological horror, there's a... More>>
No critic likes kicking lapdogs (though many semi-secretly enjoy, as I do, punting the occasional Rhodesian Ridgeback), and Richard Curtis's Love... More>>
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT
Directed by John H. Smihula
Seventh Art, November 7 through 13, Anthology
Regarded by many as a terrorist training camp,... More>>
Talking improv and introspection with Elephant actors John Robinson and Nathan Tyson
Jessica Winter,
October 28, 2003
A foredoomed day in the life of an American high school, Elephant (currently in theaters) achieves a cool, unnerving verisimilitude, and credit... More>>
One gets the feeling these days that all the world might be a documentary, and we men and women merely players. Chronicling the stories that slip... More>>
When is a flash mob not annoying? When it's accompanying Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping to one of his guerrilla services. In the... More>>
Once again setting the mass culture Cuisinart on pulverize, this hugely profitable spoof franchise rebounds nicely from its sophomore misfire,... More>>
Trailers for The Human Stain show Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman in a clinch. "There's something I need to tell you," he whispers. "Later,"... More>>
Two halves do not make a whole: a Korean director charts his nation's psychic divisions
Chuck Stephens,
October 28, 2003
The brightest filmmaker to emerge from South Korean cinema's recent boom years, Hong Sang-Soo has been making a career of reinventing the notion... More>>
DIE MOMMIE DIE!
Directed by Mark Rucker
Sundance Film Series
Opens October 31, Loews 34th Street
Retired songstress Angela Arden (Charles Busch)... More>>
Slick horror remake softens political outrage, but check out the Bush family resemblance
Michael Atkinson,
October 21, 2003
Like so many fondly remembered DIY frightmares of the 'Nam era, Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) harbored a rich nougat center of... More>>