Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Hugo
Big airports have always fascinated me. Thousands of passengers zipline back and forth on any given day: maybe on business, maybe coming home, maybe for a layover—perhaps as a tourist or gadabout. It’s a model U.N., with representatives from every part of the world trying to get to every other, but few transients stop to [...]
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Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Tabloid
The confessional documentary is as morally gray as a tabloid and as potentially colorless as a broadsheet. If a subject is made to play the fool, whose fault is it? Are they marionettes or the scene-stealing stars of their own one-man shows? Embedded in those answers is our permission to exercise an alienable right that [...]
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Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
Drive
Eu•ro•trash (yoo r-oh-ˈtrash) n. Drive : The American.
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Thursday, July 21st, 2011
Midnight in Paris
One of the fun things to do when playing critic is envisaging analogues—whether they end up useful to real people, or not. So with The Tree of Life still branching out through my ears, it seemed inevitable for me, in the lamplight of Midnight in Paris, to extend Malick’s branch all the way to Woody [...]
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Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Certified Copy
In the opening scene of Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy, an esteemed English essayist named Miller (William Shimell) arrives fashionably late to a speaking engagement at a modest literary society in Tuscany. Behind the dais, he apologizes for his tardiness with a variation of the same lame jest that the man who introduced him had made [...]