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Film: Oscars Try to Navigate Through Babel

THERE was a time when the Academy Award for best foreign-language film reflected the state of world cinema: Fellini films won back-to-back Oscars in the mid 1950s, as did Bergman films in the early ’60s. But the category has come to suggest a peculiar ...

From DENNIS LIM, The New York Times,  29 Jan 2010
Related Topics: Academy Awards,  Sony Pictures,  Michael Barker,  Michael Haneke,  Jacques Audiard

Film: Gay Identity Refracted in Multiple Voices

WHAT did gay liberation do for gay cinema? To begin to tackle this question, one has to survey the shadowy history of on-screen homosexuality, consider the elusive notion of a gay sensibility and as with all minority-group debates weigh the conflicting ...

From DENNIS LIM, The New York Times,  22 Jan 2010
Related Topics: Charles Ludlam,  Andrew Brown,  Harvey Milk,  Allen Ginsberg

Movie Director Exploring the Family, Not Killing It

“I know many directors who suffer when they work, but I feel alive,” the prolific French filmmaker François Ozon said on the phone recently. Arthur Peyret plays the title role in François Ozon's “Ricky.” He was speaking from Paris, on a day off from ...

From DENNIS LIM, The New York Times,  13 Dec 2009
Related Topics: Catherine Deneuve,  Rainer Werner Fassbinder,  Ken Loach,  David Cronenberg,  Elizabeth Taylor

Matt Damon: A-list character actor

traps of a typical A-list career. "The leading-man stuff doesn't come easily to me," he says. "I've always felt like a character actor." NEW YORK — "This is the first time I've done an interview with an ice pack down my pants," Matt Damon says, having ...

From DENNIS LIM NEW YORK TIMES, The San Jose Mercury News,  2 Dec 2009
Related Topics: Matt Damon,  Philip K. Dick,  Ben Affleck,  Steven Soderbergh,  Clint Eastwood

Film: Citizen Welles as Myth in the Making

RICHARD LINKLATER is keen to point out that his new film, “Me and Orson Welles,” is not a biopic. For starters, he said in a recent phone interview: “Biopics are the lamest genre. No one should attempt them anymore.” Mr. McKay, right, in “Me and Orson ...

From DENNIS LIM, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Mercury,  Julius Caesar,  Kenneth Tynan,  Zac Efron,  John Houseman

Film: Taking a Man, Then Removing His Myth

THE filmmaker Alexander Sokurov is best known to American audiences for “Russian Ark” (2002), a dizzying tour through the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg that sweeps up several centuries of Russian history and culture into a single 96-minute ...

From DENNIS LIM, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Boris N. Yeltsin,  J. M. W. Turner,  Caspar David Friedrich,  Joseph Goebbels,  Martin Bormann

DVDs: 'The Samuel Fuller Collection'

a glowering Cliff Robertson, he exacts revenge, disposing of the murderers and taking down their crime syndicate with help from a prostitute named Cuddles (Dolores Dorn). Samuel Fuller was a director with a signature style: blunt verging on brutal, ...

From DENNIS LIM LOS ANGELES TIMES, The San Jose Mercury News,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Samuel Fuller,  Cliff Robertson,  Sony,  Martin Scorsese,  Curtis Hanson

‘Fight Club’ Fight Goes On

CULT films, the critic Danny Peary wrote in his 1981 book “Cult Movies,” “are born in controversy” and elicit “a fiery passion in moviegoers that exists long after their initial releases.” By those measures David Fincher’s “Fight Club,” a movie that ...

From DENNIS LIM, The New York Times,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: David Fincher,  Chuck Palahniuk,  Rupert Murdoch,  Brad Pitt,  Edward Norton

Holiday Movies: Eternal Role: A-List Character Actor

“THIS is the first time I’ve done an interview with an ice pack down my pants,” Matt Damon said one recent Sunday, having retreated to the relative comfort of his trailer on a wet and chilly Manhattan film set. In order to view this feature, you must ...

From DENNIS LIM, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Matt Damon,  Steven Soderbergh,  Clint Eastwood,  Paul Greengrass,  Ben Affleck

Holiday Movies: Animal Wrangling in Miniature

FROM a young age Wes Anderson has felt proprietary about Roald Dahl’s classic children’s novel “Fantastic Mr. Fox.” “It was the first book at our household that was considered to be mine,” he said. “I was obsessed with anything involving hidden ...

From DENNIS LIM, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Wes Anderson,  Roald Dahl,  Jason Schwartzman,  Noah Baumbach,  Los Angeles Times

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