FilmCouch #86: Happy-Go-Lucky and Adam Resurrected, Telluride 2008
posted 6 days agoWe chat with some of the best filmmakers in Telluride (and the world): Mike Leigh and Paul Schrader!
We chat with some of the best filmmakers in Telluride (and the world): Mike Leigh and Paul Schrader!
Korean auteur Kim Ji-Woon talks about his new “kimchi western” The Good, the Bad, and the Weird.
Noir, drama, bad-ass assassins: Danish WWII resistance film Flame & Citron delivers.
Danny Boyle’s new film Slumdog Millionaire is generating lots of buzz at Telluride. Am I the only one who thinks it’s a total mess?
Hunger is an unflinching look at the horrors of prisoner abuse.
Among his many accomplishments, Ken Burns should be proud to have children with such excellent taste in television.
Indie pioneer Mike Leigh is back, this time with an up-beat tale about a 30 year-old girl.
Jeff Goldblum, star of Paul Schrader’s Adam Resurrected, shares what he’s been watching.
Waltz with Bashir is one part Waking Life, one part Schindler’s List, and two parts awesome.
Some movies are violent, some are disturbing, and others are just plain wrong. Paul W. S. Anderson’s Death Race is a fun ride with some gnarly crashes, but it can’t hold a candle to its demented predecessor, Roger Corman’s Death Race 2000 (1975).
Cinema’s favorite weirdo, Cripsin Glover, is taking his film across the country, personally [...]
The epic battle between McCain and Obama will shape America’s future. To prepare, we look at an eerily similar battle from America’s past, the 1960 primaries between JFK and Hubert Humphry, as portrayed in Robert Drew’s verité classic, Primary.
Karina stays in for the weekend watching back-to-back movie marathons to settle an age-old debate: Who’s better, [...]
Tropic Thunder and its fiasco retardo. The Clone Wars assaults weary Star Wars fans, but Karina’s watch list saves the day.
Pot and taekwondo, the pursuits of a Southern gentlemen named Danny McBride.
The answer, as it turns out, might be yes.
The visuals are great, but it’s the editing that will make or break Watchmen.