9 years ago
Reviews (10 posts found)
“Dior and I”
The challenge: designing a couture collection for the legendary high fashion brand Christian Dior. The contender: Raf Simons, the newly appointed artistic director at the House of Dior. Time: eight stressful weeks in the spring of 2012. The output? That's like...
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“Lost River”
Some movies arrive in body bags, crushed under the weight of toxic advance word to which too many critics, eager to join the consensus pile-on, gleefully align themselves. Since its catastrophic reception at Cannes nearly a year ago, Ryan Gosling’s directorial...
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“Rebels of the Neon God”
It’s a testament to the audacity and divisiveness of director Tsai Ming-liang that the feature debut from the painterly master of Taiwan’s post-New Wave era, Rebels of the Neon God, should get its first limited release in the States 22 years after it was made....
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“Kill Me Three Times”
A tale of mistaken killers and coincidence becomes tediously tangled in Kriv Stenders’s Kill Me Three Times, a suicidal experiment with narrative. Cinema may arguably thrive on filmmakers’ abilities to pioneer new forms to present the same stories, but Stender...
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“In Country”
With the rousing success of the final episodes of a certain recent HBO true-crime series, it has become something of a topic du jour to debate the utility of documentary reenactments. Are they meant to be taken as a representation of reality, or of a shady net...
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“Clouds of Sils Maria”
“Thinking about a text is different than living it.” Internationally renowned European movie star Maria Enders, portrayed by internationally renowned European movie star Juliette Binoche, speaks these words to her personal assistant Valentine (Kristen Stewart,...
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“Danny Collins”
“When have I ever let you down?” asks Al Pacino as the title character at a crucial moment late in Danny Collins. It’s the biggest laugh I’ve had at a movie in quite some time, and one that brought the house down the way I haven’t seen in ages. The line itself...
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“5 To 7”
Nascent filmmakers sometimes fall into the trap of attempting to emulate the singular styles of Terrence Malick or Quentin Tarantino with diminishing returns. But it’s Woody Allen’s influence on film that has wrought irrevocable damage to the limited imaginati...
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“Cut Bank”
Whoever said imitation is the sincerest form of flattery probably didn’t go to the movies very often.
Okay, that’s a bit of an overstatement. We all know that the history of cinema is made up, at least in part, of great filmmakers being inspired by one anothe...
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