film commentary

The Sacrament can be described as a “found-footage” film. This term was popularized by The Blair Witch Project in 1999...

A couple of times in any given year, if I am lucky, I get to see a great film – best defined as a film alive with new possibilities for the medium...

When I read that A Million Ways to Die in the West was underperforming at the box office, my heart sank. Not because I liked the film...

Like Jim Jarmusch’s perfect Dead Man, which tells the whole story in its title, Mad Men gives it away in its title sequence...

Fatalism is a funny thing, I know I wrestle with it. I feel a teaspoon of anger when someone tells me, “Everything happens for a reason.”

I had a rather funny Kelly Reichardt experience at the time of Meek’s Cutoff’s screening at Sundance 2011. I had just arrived at the filmmaker

I argued with my boyfriend about Maleficent and my feelings about it all weekend. The best way I found of expressing my take on it is this...

I’m a predictable person. Last April, I saw an unsubtitled trailer for a film called Borgman and even though I didn’t understand...

In spring 2005, after learning that Lukas Moodysson’s new film, A Hole in My Heart, was opening only on one screen in NYC...

What is the point of a vaguely “extreme” British crime and corrupt cops import if not to inspire the awe...

Seth MacFarlane is funny. He's also good-looking (I mean, the guy can wear a tuxedo). He's got a great speaking voice and he can sing as well.

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to make a film following the opium trade from seed to drug addict.