FEATURES
When Dave
Chappelle needed someone to film what he planned as the greatest hip-hop concert
ever, he called Eternal Sunshine genius Michel Gondry. The result is not
only a great concert film but also a fantastic portrait of the actor/comedian as
he harnesses the healing power of music. By Matthew
Ross
Director Richard
Linklater creates an animated allegory for our times with A Scanner
Darkly, an adaptation of sci-fi great Philip K. Dick’s darkly comic
tale about drug-using undercover agents. By Scott
Macaulay
PLUS: The ins and
outs of Scanner’s
postproduction.
Cinematic
provocateur Caveh Zahedi continues to turn his life into art with I Am a Sex
Addict, a wickedly clever new autobiographical comedy. By Andrew
Bujalski.
PLUS: Zahedi’s
self-distribution
manifesto.
In his
riveting and informative new doc, Why We Fight, filmmaker Eugene Jarecki
takes a revealing personality profile of America and the military-industrial
complex it supports. By Matthew
Ross
With Bubble, the first in a series of low-budget HD features, Steven
Soderbergh reunites with his Full Frontal screenwriter Coleman Hough to
explore the mysteries of wage labor. By Matthew
Ross
THE WALKING DEAD
With The
Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Tommy Lee Jones has moved his laconic,
hard-weathered persona behind the camera to tell a simple, moving story about
race and class in the vanishing West. By Jason
Guerrasio
ONE SHOT WONDERS
Shooting in
their Belgian hometown and focusing their intense dramas on people in crisis,
the Dardenne Brothers tell simple stories with big dramatic impacts. Their
latest, L’Enfant, deals with illegal adoption and is their second
Palme d’Or winner. By Tom
Gilroy
THE WAR WITHIN
With his second
feature, the challenging and
sexually provocative Battle in Heaven, Japón director
Carlos Reygadas confirms his status as one of the boldest film storytellers of
his generation. By Matthew
Ross
RUDE BOY
Adapting the Athol
Fugard novel set among the South African underclass, Tsotsi director
Gavin Hood and debuting screen actor Presley Chweneyagae have created a
cinematic punch to the gut. By Matthew Ross
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