There’s something extremely fascinating about those rare individuals who function on a higher plane, however dysfunctional or detached from the rest of society. The art world, as any other, knows its prodigies and outsiders alike. Here a few good documentaries that cover a wide range of such people.
January 29, 2008 – 6:49 pm
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I suppose the comparison was inevitable, if not obvious. The new documentary Protagonist by Jessica Yu finds a good template in Errol Morris’ opus Fast, Cheap & Out of Control.
September 13, 2005 – 5:42 pm
Here are a series of reviews I started as a bit of a challenge. The idea was to write the entire review in ten (hence, “decuple”) words or less. I considered the movie title to count as only one word. Oh, and sometimes I had to get clever with hyphenated words to keep [...]
October 31, 2004 – 2:47 pm
It’s been a long time since a movie scene made me honestly cringe under my collar out of anxiety.
October 4, 2004 – 2:39 am
Leave it to comic books and American noir to spark an international dialog.
October 29, 2002 – 8:47 am
Both are arty, but differ in delivery: vague impressionism versus creepy surrealism.
August 11, 2002 – 1:24 am
The difference between these films is like the difference between mere artistic license and historical revisionism: pageantry and fraud.
Where Dark City is visual escapism, The Matrix is testosterone brain candy!
February 13, 2001 – 2:56 pm
If anyone can make 70s Italian splatter movies mainstream, Hopkins can.
April 29, 2000 – 12:59 pm
If I had any idea what I was in for with this double feature, I would never have entered the theater.
Fortunately, filmmaking is generational. Scorsese’s baton has not fallen by Fincher.
January 31, 2000 – 12:20 am
These films find disparate people in desperate situations, and the frailty of human standards and spirits.
December 12, 1999 – 8:37 am
When they call Election “wicked satire,” they mean it. Rushmore wasn’t half as crass yet twice as funny.
October 25, 1999 – 2:34 am
That both of these successful films are independent gives one a giddy sense of grass roots pride.
September 14, 1999 – 2:44 am
Ushering in the new millennium of horror movies, one of these films is mighty, the other mediocre.
