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‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’: Love at second bite
Filmmaker Chris Weitz said that he knew the Twilight phenomenon had gone off the rails when the female...
Fantastic furry fun in ‘Mr. Fox’
In a world of children’s films increasingly characterized by technological accomplishment and sophisticated rendering in lieu of good old-fashioned storytelling, it was a breath of fresh air to enjoy the stop-motion Fantastic Mr. Fox...
‘What cinema is capable of, at all ends of the spectrum’
Kathryn Bernheimer — programmer of the Boulder Jewish Film Festival (BJFF) — knows what her audience wants.
“Opening and closing films have to be feel-good,”...
BW BIFF Picks 2013: ‘Seeking Asian Female’
Despite opening with interviews of white men looking for Asian women, Seeking Asian Female is about one white man, one Asian woman and one documentarian...
Home viewing: Palme d’Or winners
The origins of France’s Cannes Film Festival lay not in La République, but neighboring Italy. Specifically, 1937’s Venice Film Festival, when Benito Mussolini stuck...
A portrait of the president as a young man
The story of the Great Emancipator began on February 12, 1809 when Abraham Lincoln was born to Thomas and Nancy Hanks in a one-room log cabin in Kentucky. A few years later, the Lincolns left Kentucky, crossed the Ohio River to non-slave territory in Indiana and set ...
On the road
When Agnès Varda died March 29, 2019, at the age of 90, cinema lost a titan.
Varda’s first film, La Pointe Courte, (about an...
Wherefore art thou, Magilla Gorilla?
San Andreas and Jurassic Park III were provided abstinence-only education, didn’t use intellectual property protection and had an illegitimate Rampage baby. Oh yeah, while...
Not a question of where, but why
Watching movies in 2019 is no longer a question of where, but why.
It could be everywhere: Multiplexes, art house theater, film societies, living rooms,...
Revenge with a twist that falls short in ‘Citizen’
Law Abiding Citizen is the latest in the bad-lawyer genre, with Jamie Foxx as careerfocused attorney Nick Rice, who accepts a plea bargain from the killer of affable inventor Clyde Shelton’s (Gerard Butler) family to ensure his excellent trial outcome record...
‘Red Cliff’ a rare war movie invested in strategy
Red Cliff is the first Chinese-language film from John Woo in more than a decade, and reportedly the most expensive Chineselanguage movie ever made (though, once you see its Lord of the Rings-like immensity, that “reportedly” becomes “oh, totally”). It is two-and-...