Category: movie recommendation
LATE MARRIAGE (2001) On its face, Dover Kosashvili’s Late Marriage concerns issues that may seem quite alien to you and me. It’s the story of a 31-year-old Israeli man named Zaza (Lior Ashkenazi, recently seen in Footnote) whose very traditional...
IN THE CUT (2003) Generally, I use these occasional Movie Recommendation posts to highlight a film I think you may have missed because it’s obscure or it flew under the radar on its initial release. However with this one (as...
This weekend opens one of the biggest superhero movies ever made. The Avengers features super team consisting of a bunch of characters not used to sharing the screen with anyone. But it’s not the only superhero team with a new...
The story behind Paul Schrader’s prequel to The Excorcist, helpfully titled and subtitled Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist , is complex and interesting enough to make for its own movie. It was originally to have been directed by the legendary...
SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW (2004) There is an argument to be made for style over substance. While I usually like my movies to plumb the depths of human experience and emotion, sometimes it’s just enough to be...
THE LOVED ONE (1965) The sixties were a weird time for American film – while the studio system was falling apart, a few brave, engaged filmmakers found ways to sneak some truly subversive material across the border of distribution. Tony...
THE LAST SEPTEMBER (1999) The Last September was the film debut for theatrical director Deborah Warner. She chose to adapt Elizabeth Bowen’s 1929 novel which tells the story of a wealthy family living in County Cork, Ireland in 1920, during...
THE PLEDGE (2001) Sean Penn’s The Pledge seems like it could be a very conventional story. It is about a retiring detective who becomes obsessed with his last cast, which he is convinced was not properly solved. Played by no...
LANTANA (2001) The exhausting “tapestry-of-intersecting-bourgeois-lives” genre sometimes seems like it only continues to exist because its purveyors are in a game of one-upmanship to see who can include the most characters. The recent, tepid Answers to Nothing may be the...
SUPERSTAR (1999) Tyler and I recently discussed on the podcast how often most film critics don’t connect with fringe comedies like Wet Hot American Summer. Despite being released by a major studio and being based on one of the more...
