Tiptoes
Tiptoes (2003) apparently has a director’s cut of 150 minutes which is an hour longer than the widely released producer’s cut that I saw and will be writing about. The… Read more »
Tag: 2000s
Les Témoins
Les Témoins (2007) is André Téchiné at his most politically powerful. The film addresses the systematic homophobia that swept France in the wake of the AIDs outbreak of 1984. Téchiné… Read more »
Southland Tales
Richard Kelly’s follow-up to the beloved Donnie Darko (2001) is a hodge-podge of desperate ideas and styles unified by a handful of loosely connected narrative threads. Southland Tales (2006) may… Read more »
Scream Of The Bikini
Kiff Scholl’s Scream of the Bikini (2009) is a spoof of such sixties classics as The Million Eyes Of Su Muru (1967), Modesty Blaise (1966), and the films of Armando… Read more »
Le Silence de Lorna
Le Silence de Lorna (2008) continues Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne’s interest in constructing character studies of people living on society’s margins. As is characteristic of their work, the film takes… Read more »
Windtalkers
Windtalkers (2002) follows Sgt. Enders (Nicolas Cage) on his mission to protect Navajo code-talker Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach) during the taking of Saipan during WWII. Yahzee’s deep spirituality transforms Enders… Read more »
10 On Ten
Throughout Abbas Kiarostami’s career he sought emotional and spiritual truths by investigating the cinema on a technical level; dissecting, rearranging, and deconstructing its various technical and philosophical machinations. Ten (2002)… Read more »
Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo (2002) has very little to recommend it to those who aren’t already part of that property’s cult following. Director Raja Gosnell literally translated the cartoon to live action so… Read more »
Zodiac
Zodiac (2007) is David Fincher’s best film to date. His pacing has never been so tight, the sense of time and place has never been more tangible, and the answers… Read more »
Marie Antoinette
The entire time I was watching the first season of Bridgerton (2020) I kept thinking about Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette (2006). I don’t think Bridgerton would exist without Coppola’s film…. Read more »
