Pauline Kael discusses the myths surrounding the work of Sam Peckinpah in this excerpt from the monograph that accompanies the Peckinpah retrospective sponsored by the Austin Film Society.
La Collectionneuse1967, NR, 88 min.Directed by Eric Rohmer, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Alain Jouffroy, Daniel Pommereulle, Haydée Politoff, Patrick Bauchau."Love and Morality:...
Move over Disney and Pixar: Sylvain Chomet’s Oscar-nominated animated feature is the kind of work that could only be authored by a singular individual.
Full Metal Jacket1987, R, 116 min.D: Stanley Kubrick; with Matthew Modine, Vincent D’Onofrio, Lee Ermey.Kubrick’s study of war and men’s dehumanization is divided into two...
The Doom Generation1995, R, 95 min.Directed by Gregg Araki, Starring James Duval, Rose McGowan, Johnathon Schaech.Admittedly, Araki's new feature may not appeal to all tastes,...
After my 80-something-year-old aunt died, she was buried next to her husband. Her second husband. Her first husband had been a young man when death came to him. The cemetery where her first was buried was the same one where my aunt now lay, and was located only a few yards away from where she […]
The things we are reluctant to say to one another are the things that are on the tip of the tongue in Joachim Trier’s new film. Perhaps, more precisely, the muffled emotions are buried in the tongue-and-groove woodwork in the old Norwegian house that, in a different time, had sheltered the protagonists of Sentimental Value. […]
Let’s call the whole thing off, thinks a couple when their 20-year-long marriage appears to have run out of steam. That’s the starting point of the movie Is This Thing On?. It’s the third directorial outing from Bradley Cooper following A Star Is Born and Maestro, and like those two films, Is This Thing On? […]
