Walk the Line
March 13, 2006
Capitalizing on the popularity of Ray (2004), Walk the Line (2005) also chronicles the turbulent career and life of an iconic musician, applying the same plot structure – their lives have parallel arcs and hit the same dramatic beats. Like Ray Charles,...
Where the Truth Lies: Unrated Theatrical Edition
March 13, 2006
Since the critically acclaimed but commercial failure of Felicia’s Journey (1999), Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan has been keeping a low profile. He returned to the spotlight in 2005 with a vengeance with Where the Truth Lies. It captured headlines...
Traffic: Criterion Collection
March 13, 2006
By the time he made Traffic (2000), Steven Soderbergh was at the zenith of his popularity having just come off the crowd pleaser, yet socially conscious Erin Brockovich (2000), with an even more powerful critique on a problem that plagues the United States...
Stay
March 13, 2006
Made after his auspicious debut, Monster’s Ball (2001), and the prestigious Miramax period drama, Finding Neverland (2004), Marc Forster’s supernatural thriller Stay (2005) is his cinematic bastard child, virtually ignored by critics and audiences...
Eros
March 13, 2006
Aside from the box office failure of the uneven Four Rooms (1995), there are very few high profile anthology films being made. Along comes Eros (2004) that features a collection of three short films exploring eroticism via three distinctive filmmakers:...
The Thing Called Love: Director’s Cut
March 13, 2006
The Thing Called Love (1993) is something of a cinematic oddity. Made towards the end of River Phoenix’s tragically short life and featuring a young Sandra Bullock just before she became a household name with Speed (1994) a year later, it was Peter...
NYPD Blue: Season 3
March 13, 2006
NYPD Blue was seen as the successor to that other venerable television cop show, Hill Street Blues. However, NYPD Blue took the gritty realism to a whole other level with busy, hand-held camerawork, racy sex scenes and profanity not seen on network T.V....
The Weather Man
March 12, 2006
Gore Verbinski is a throwback to filmmakers from the classic Hollywood era in the sense that he’s a journeyman director working in a variety of genres: the romantic comedy (The Mexican), horror (The Ring) and action/adventure (Pirates of the Caribbean)....
November
March 12, 2006
Courtney Cox stars as a disturbed photography teacher who recently lost her boyfriend in a drugstore robbery. As her world starts to crumble, does she have more to do with the murder than even she knows? While the rest of the cast of Friends were struggling...
La bete humaine
March 12, 2006
La Bete Humaine (1938) is often cited as an example of poetic realism, popular in the 1930s in France, and that also anticipated the popularity of film noir in the 1940s. Jean Renoir’s film was based loosely on Emile Zola’s novel with the filmmaker...
