The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (Fiennes, 2012)
It's possible, I suppose, to like movies and not like Slavoj Žižek, who I usually describe as the lunatic genius from another dimension.
Category: Film Festivals
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TIFF 2013: Last of the Unjust and Mission Congo
Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah is sui generis, a universally respected nine and-a-half hour documentary that may well be as close as one can get to a definitive historical account of the Holocaust.
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The Armstrong Lie (Gibney, 2013)
A person--doesn’t have to be a friend of yours necessarily, just someone you know or have heard of--is diagnosed with cancer. This person decides not to undergo any type of chemotherapy treatment or ingest any available medicines—because he equates treatment to “cheating.” Would you not think this an asinine response?
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Child of God (Franco, 2013)
An outsider, of “carnival folk” in a rustic, small town in the backwoods of Tennessee, Lester Ballard lives alone, fighting for his survival.
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Don Jon (Gordon-Levitt, 2013)
Kenneth R. Morefield reviews Don Jon at 1More Film Blog.
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Gravity (Cuarón, 2013)
Any good political pollster can tell you that the answer is influenced by the way the question is framed. Film critics usually think the question they are answering is, "Was it any good?" The question I get asked the most, however, is, "Did you like it?"
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Under the Skin (Glazer, 2013)
The director himself opined that he thought the second half of the film was about "the drift towards moral intuition [and ...] the stuff that makes us human."
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Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story (Bernstein, 2012)
Ungerer ties his bold proclamation that "children should be traumatized" to his artistic vision that pushed children's fiction beyond the benign and banal.
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Exporting Love, Exporting Hate
One of the more striking contrasts between Rocky's mission and IHOP's is that his orphans have names.
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The Editor and The Dragon (Campbell and Clark)
In 1953, the Pulitzer Prize for was awarded to the editor of the Tabor City Tribune.