Silver City
July 1, 2005
John Sayles is one of America’s rare political filmmakers, from the corruption in professional baseball with Eight Men Out (1988) to environmental concerns with Sunshine State (2002). Like, Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, Sayles released his movie,...
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: Collector’s Edition
June 30, 2005
Filmmaker Michel Gondry must be a firm believer in the old saying, “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” His feature film debut was the Charlie Kaufman-penned Human Nature (2001) that, by most accounts, was simply awful. Maybe Gondry...
Stage Beauty
June 30, 2005
You’d be forgiven for thinking you were watching Shakespeare In Love: Part Deux, as wannabe Claire Danes steals lady-man Billy Crudup’s trademark role when an old law forbidding women to act on stage is thrown out by the king. A bare few months...
A Home at the End of the World
June 29, 2005
A Home at the End of the World (2004) chronicles the relationship between two friends and how it endures through the ups and downs of their lives. Much was made of a Colin Farrell’s nude scene—so much so that the director removed the scene from the...
Collateral
June 27, 2005
Cabbie Jamie Foxx is having a very bad day thanks to hitman Tom Cruise, who hijacks his car and takes him on a killing spree through Los Angeles. Michael Mann, some time after inventing trashy cop shows and bungling Nazi horror movies, has become an American...
The Manchurian Candidate
June 26, 2005
Remaking classic movies is almost always a bad idea and usually done for all the wrong reasons. Case in point: Gus Van Sant’s much-maligned misfire, Psycho (1998). There is a reason why these movies are so highly regarded—they don’t need to be remade....
The Door in the Floor
June 25, 2005
Based on John Irving’s novel, “A Widow for One Year, Tod Williams follows up his critically-lauded independent film, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole (1998) with the even more accomplished and emotionally textured The Door on the Floor (2004). It...
Millennium Mambo
June 24, 2005
Millennium Mambo (2001) is a stylish look at the life of a young woman named Vicky (Qi). The captivating establishing shot is of her walking through a covered walkway with fluorescent lights captured in slow motion like in a dream. She looks back at the...
Testament
June 21, 2005
With the nuclear arms race and the Cold War reaching a climax in the early to mid-‘80s, the threat of nuclear war was prevalent on most people’s minds. Two made-for-TV movies, The Day After (1983) and Threads (1984), tried to address, in graphically...
Short Cuts
June 20, 2005
After the critical and commercial success of The Player (1992) put Robert Altman back on the map—within the Hollywood industry—he wisely used his new found (and fleeting) cache to get a personal project of his green-lighted. With Short Cuts (1993),...
