Earth
22 Apr 09 •
Though it is little more than a repackaging of footage and narrative arcs from the acclaimed BBC/Discovery Channel television series “Planet Earth”, it is hard not to be awestruck by Disneynature’s inaugural release, earth, flaws and all. This epic nature documentary follows three “families” over the course of a year and throughout their travels across the planet.
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Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
23 Nov 08 •
Youthful libidos are undeniable, and in a teenage flick, as the American Pie franchise proved, a first kiss is no longer sufficient. In Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, many subplots revolve around the body, from vomit to sex. Released around midterms and homecoming season, the adolescent stresses of popularity and schoolwork are driving many hormonal [...]
Ashes of Time Redux
23 Nov 08 •
Wong Kar-Wai first made Ashes of Time in 1994, and this film was meant to be an epic, defining work. But because of forces outside the filmmaker’s control, his vision was compromised. It was his other 1994 release, Chungking Express—made largely as an afterthought in comparison to the scope of Ashes of Time—that catapulted Wong [...]
Tulpan
23 Nov 08 •
Four years in the making, Tulpan is Kazakh documentary filmmaker Sergei Dvortsevoy’s first fiction feature. The in-the-moment stylistic approach of his nonfiction work remains intact in this film, which gives an astoundingly singular view of rural life in Kazakhstan (especially surprising considering the extent of other nations involved with its production). Tulpan is a unique [...]
Nights and Weekends
8 Nov 08 •
With the advent of digital camcorders and cheap editing software, anyone can make a movie. Anyone usually does — but most people are not capable of sustaining a mood and a relationship between their two leads as Greta Gerwig and Joe Swanberg do in Nights and Weekends. They co-wrote and co-directed, play the leads Mattie [...]
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