Manufactured Landscapes (2006) A Film by Jennifer Baichwal

Manufactured Landscapes , another, yet far more interesting, essay on the threatening state of ecology in the world, kicks off with a superi...

Index of Reviews, Sorted by Director's Last Name

A ABRAMS, J.J. Super 8 ADLON, Percy Bagdad Cafe AKERMAN, Chantal Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles Jeanne Dielman: Analysis...

Love and Death (1975) A Film by Woody Allen

Love and Death marks the moment in Woody Allen's early career when he had perfected his craft of strictly comedic filmmaking and was pr...

Best Albums of 2008

I am aware that I write primarily about cinema, but I feel ill-suited to make any sort of "best of 2008" lists for films because I...

Winter Light (1962) A Film by Ingmar Bergman

Last night after viewing Ingmar Bergman's second entry in a loss of faith trilogy, Winter Light , I pondered with my good friend about t...

Still Life (Sanxia Haoren) A Film by Jia Zhang-Ke (2008)

In many ways, Jia Zhang-Ke's 2008 feature Still Life is modern China's answer to Antonioni's L'Avventura . The backdrop is ...

Citizen Kane (1941) A Film by Orson Welles

The opening sequence of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane introduces a myriad of striking detail shots around a cryptic mansion. A fence stand...

Wavelength (1967) A Film by Michael Snow

Michael Snow's cardinal avant-garde short Wavelength is a 45 minute zoom in on a photograph on a wall in a dank domestic space, intersp...

The Prestige (2006) A Film by Christopher Nolan

I've awoken myself from my week and a half long post- Satantango trance in a rather contradictory manner: the former film relishes the ...

Satantango (1994) A Film by Bela Tarr

Have you ever gazed at mud so long that you begin to realize an intricate beauty in it? Do you perhaps come to appreciate its consistent tex...

Times and Winds (Bes vakit) A Film by Reha Erdem (2006)

Two years ago, Reha Erdem's film festival contribution Times and Winds , only his fourth feature film, was met with assured praise. This...