When deciding on a movie for this week’s Sleeper Cell, I couldn’t choose between David LaChapelle’s gritty urban documentary of South Central hip hop dancers Rize and David Cronenberg’s 1999 whacked out sci-fi thriller eXistenZ. So I’m cheating by going totally off the board and selecting a live recording of a London dramatic performance! In [...]
People dog on indie movies, because all indie movies seem to tell goofy stories about quirkier-than-thou characters who end up getting the girl against overwhelming odds, improbably winning an unexpected gunfight or overcoming their debilitating social awkwardness and all this is presented through faux home-spun soundtracks with tinny guitars and totally unnecessary close-ups against a [...]
As is obvious from this picture, and from one viewing of Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Jim Jarmusch is too cool for school. He’s a walking breathing art-house who doesn’t need to try to make quirky movies – he opens his mouth and talks in close-ups and awkward lighting. Coffee and Cigarettes is [...]
This movie is important. Plain and simple. But not that simple. There are a lot of things working against Masked and Anonymous, not the least of which is that it was written and directed by the co-creator of Seinfeld, Larry Charles (Religulous). After all, why on earth should we listen to a professional comedian about the state of world affairs? And it certainly doesn’t help that there was virtually no marketing campaign and that it was released opposite the arthouse juggernaut, Le Divorce. It’s also an uber-politically active (or socially active, depending on how you take it) movie – never the best blockbusters. The cast list is more than impressive, but you wouldn’t be wrong to call Masked and Anonymous “preachy.” It preaches its head off. But it says things that need to be said. More on that after the jump!
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