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Un Prophete (Jacques Audiard, 2010)
Strip away the French and Arabic subtitles, the French-prison setting and the Muslim-messianic title, and A Prophet, opening Friday at The Enzian, would still be the grittiest prison thriller in...
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Lovely Bones (Peter Jackson, 2010)
(Entertainment Weekly) – A dead 14-year-old girl named Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan), murdered on her way home from school in 1973, tells her story from heaven in “The Lovely Bones.” In doing so, Susie...
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A Bay of Blood (Mario Bava, 1971)
I know we’ve already had a review from the very capable keyboard of James Dennis, but I can’t help wanting to chime in on this package. He summarized the plot quite nicely, so I think I’ll borrow...
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The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderbergh, 2009)
More about the idea of sex than the act of it, The Girlfriend Experience suits Steven Soderbergh’s career-long detachment regarding all things sensual. The writer/director whose indie star first rose...
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Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans (Werner Herzog, 2009)
How about in for a nickel bag? Or a few ounces? That seems more appropriate for “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.” However you put it, you need to know this going in: Nicholas Cage is so...
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Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation (Eric Zala, 1989)
Imagining yourself as Indiana Jones in the thick of adventure wasn’t difficult to accomplish during the 1980s. He was a fixture of screen heroism and pre-teen cool; a surrogate father for adolescent...
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Z Channel – A Magnificent Obsession (Alexandra Cassavetes, 2004)
Alexandra “Xan” Cassavetes’ involving Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession documents the all-consuming movie love of former Los Angeles-area pay-cable outlet Z Channel’s programmer Jerry Harvey, who,...
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Streets of Fire (Walter Hill, 1984)
Walter Hill’s 1984 “Streets of Fire” is probably the only other film, besides John Carpenter’s “Big Trouble in Little China”, that I have a hard time convincing third parties that it’s really not as...
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A Colt Is My Passport (Takashi Nomura, 1967)
Retrospective screenings are always a dicey proposition for a film festival. With your audience always hungry for the latest and the greatest bringing in old titles can be a sure fire way to bleed...
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Air Doll (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2009)
Why does an inflatable sex doll come to life and proceed on a journey of discovery looking to explore the human condition? It just does, apparently. Hirokazu Kore-Eda’s Air Doll is quietly...
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Bound (1996, Andy Wachowsky and Lana Wachowsky) Movie Review
Andy and Lana Wachowsky, one of the most successful artistic tandems nowadays, have made a great directing career start with this movie. Before this, they were writing a screenplay for the movie...
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