Tag Archives: Art House

A harrowing character study of mental illness.

Pizza, like Napoleon Dynamite and Harold and Kumar, is for quirky tastes, as are anchovies.

A report from the Pusan Film Festival

It is the magnitude and horror of just such an event that unfortunately makes it the perfect metaphor for 9/11.

Ceylan seems to be far more interested in setting a mood than delivering a powerful story.

While the broad term “sex comedy” implies mindless jiggle, obscene gags, and stereotypical characters, Cuaron’s film has significant substance and avoids clichés.

What would you do if you found out you only had a few years left to live?

While Russian Dolls works fine as a stand-alone project, it gains greater depth with knowledge of the previous film, L’Auberge Espagnole.

A biting and insightful indictment of America’s history of slavery and von Trier’s slap against our ongoing modern foreign policy.

A well-crafted adaptation as Bukowski captures the beauty in an ugliness of life.