DODES’KA-DEN
This film has been referred to as 'minor Kurosawa', and if those two terms ever belonged together , then I ...
April 19, 2009
WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL 2009
A moderate sized but respectable film festival, the WFF has grown each year to its current crop of 198 films ...
April 11, 2009
GOODBYE SOLO
In its own way, this film is perfect. From start to finish, the performances are flawless, not a moment is ...
April 7, 2009
TOKYO SONATA
The creeping dread of a faltering global economy is likely to inspire a wave of films with themes of depression, ...
April 7, 2009
OUR MAN IN HAVANA
Intelligence services for any nation have in common an innate need for secrecy regarding their actions and a defensive posture ...
April 5, 2009
Vagabond
How does one conduct a character study of a complete void? The human soul is elusive enough when it has ...
March 29, 2009
The Exterminating Angel
Luis Bunuel was obsessed with ritual and fetish, but he managed to harness them for his art; perhaps selecting embrace ...
March 21, 2009
Watchmen
Given the troubled production history and the reputation of Watchmen as unfilmable, it is remarkable that this ever came to ...
March 7, 2009
