Holy Motors: Leos Carax's Chaplin-like statement on these modern times:
Leos Carax's Holy Motors is another 2012 film giving the 20th century and its cinema a lingering, loving, wistful goodbye kiss.
Bio: Steven Boone is a freelance film critic and video vandal based in New York. You can find his work at places like Keyframe, Roger Ebert's Far Flung Correspondents, and Big Media Vandalism.
The Social Network is superior to Citizen Kane in almost every way that counts for the moment. It isn't a work of genius, but something better: an appreciation of young genius, with the patience and maturity to add that smarts ain't everything; that without true, deep emotional intelligence, it's next to nothing. Since Kane is often regarded as the greatest film ever made, does that make The Social Network the new greatest movie ever made? Well, to a contemporary movie audience looking for works that speak to their immediate concerns (and often mistaking the jive-talking trivialities that flood their multiplexes for just that) , TSN might as well be Citizen Kane x The Rules of the Game + The Godfather. More
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on September 27th, 2010 8:15amThe director of The Social Network, which opens The New York Film Festival tonight, jokingly compares his film to Citizen Kane. And some critics and journalists have done the same. They're right, except that The Social Network is superior in many important ways.
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on September 24th, 2010 2:22pmThe 48th New York Film Festival starts this Friday. Here are some films on the slate worth seeing. More
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on September 23rd, 2010 8:30amThe 48th New York Film Festival starts next Friday. Here are two tough films and one easy one worth checking out there. More
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on September 17th, 2010 12:15amOn the Bowery teems with striking faces, but the most startling one belongs to its leading man, Ray Salyer, a drunk at the time he was cast in this breathtaking 1958 docudrama about alcoholics in New York City. More
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on September 15th, 2010 9:44pmBelow are some films, festivals and programs coming to New York City this fall that will, for one reason or another, be worth taking the trouble to go and see. More
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on September 14th, 2010 8:40amSomewhere, Ol' Dirty Bastard is smiling. The late platinum-selling rapper, who once let MTV News tag along as he cashed a welfare check, would have appreciated what actor-turned-rapper Joaquin Phoenix is up to in I'm Still Here. Phoenix doesn't commit any welfare fraud on camera, but there is a beautiful, insurrectionary hustle going on.
Nobody in this documentary seems entirely sure if Phoenix is serious about retiring from acting to pursue a rap career, but everybody plays along with the stunt. It's the classic Hollywood circus of a thousand sheep following one brave fool. Phoenix uses the good will (or opportunism) of his fellow celebrities, his assistants, agents, promoters, producers and fans to fuel a media frenzy surrounding his debut album, which doesn't yet exist. More
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on September 10th, 2010 7:30amOne day, when movie fans talk about director Anton Corbijn as one of the greats, it's a scene in The American that they will point to as a defining moment. It's the scene in which George Clooney goes down on a prostitute. More
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on September 2nd, 2010 7:56amCenturion is a high-resolution photocopy of every Ancient Rome epic and every pursuit adventure film ever Netflixed, from The Last of the Mohicans to Apocalypto. But that's not the problem. More
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on August 26th, 2010 7:56amOn one level, Machine Gun McCain (1969) (available on DVD and Blu-Ray August 24) is just a stylish, hard-boiled spaghetti gangster flick stocked with great tough-guy actors. But cock your head a bit and it's also a picture of a doggedly independent artist in the prime of his creative life.
It’s a self-portrait of maverick filmmaker John Cassavetes. More
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on August 20th, 2010 12:08am
