2012
62 articles
Two Treatments of Italy’s Fascist Past
Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist and Vittorio De Sica’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis were both released in 1970, both based on novels (by Alberto Moravia and Giorgio Bassani, respectively)...
Mar 6, 2012 / Alison FrankContest: Win ‘Being Flynn’ tickets, soundtrack, book!
More free stuff! All right, here’s the deal. The Moving Arts has teamed up with Focus Features again, this time to offer you the chance to win a prize pack in advance of the upcoming release of...
Feb 27, 2012 / Eric M. Armstrong‘The Leopard’: novel, opera, but above all, film
Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard ( Il Gattopardo ) was made in 1963, but is set just over a century earlier, during the Risorgimento, when Garibaldi fought for Italy to be united into one kingdom, free...
Feb 27, 2012 / Alison Frank‘The Descendants’: A loving portrait of the 1 percent
Ben Stiller’s 2001 male modeling comedy “Zoolander” was released just a few weeks after 9/11. It didn’t do well. The consensus was that a contemplative America wasn’t interested in such aggressive...
Feb 25, 2012 / Scott ArmstrongWe’ll always have ‘Casablanca’
Judging from a conversation I overheard before the start of the screening, it seems that there will always be people who haven’t seen Casablanca (1942). ‘I can’t believe you guys have never seen it,’...
Feb 20, 2012 / Alison Frank‘Carnage’ slaughters dialogue with theatrics
Two of cinema’s key advantages as a medium are its mastery of space and time, and its impression of reality. These two traits are not necessarily related: after all, in reality we often find...
Feb 14, 2012 / Alison Frank‘The Artist’: More of the same
I’m getting a little tired of seeing Jean Dujardin’s face. That I can say this about an actor I like so much reflects the degree of media saturation surrounding The Artist . For most of January, the...
Feb 7, 2012 / Alison FrankNuance, subtext and poetry: A defense of ‘The Village’
Bryce Dallas Howard in "The Village" I feel sorry for M. Night Shyamalan. After “The Last Airbender” debacle and the graceless marketing scheme for “The Happening” as his first rated-R film, M. Night...
Feb 5, 2012 / Vanessa GranielloLoco: London’s 1st Comedy Film Festival
Art films don’t have to be serious, but a lot of them are. Madness, suffering, death—at times these become depressingly familiar themes at film festivals. For this reason, the rare comedy film is...
Jan 28, 2012 / Alison Frank‘Orlando’: Does Sex Matter?
Twenty years on, it is well worth revisiting Orlando , Sally Potter’s 1992 adaptation of a Virginia Woolf novel. Subtly convincing the audience that a person’s sex does not define them, the film...
Jan 23, 2012 / Alison FrankA soothing demise: Lars von Trier’s ‘Melancholia’ considered
Kirsten Dunst greets the apocalypse “Melancholia” is Lars von Trier’s intelligent, melodramatic, achingly beautiful and wickedly funny new film. It tells the story of Justine (a transcendent Kirsten...
Jan 18, 2012 / Vanessa GranielloThe Power of Limits in ‘The Five Obstructions’
How are you doing with your new year’s resolutions? Did you start this month with enthusiasm and optimism? We seem to enjoy this annual ritual of creating restrictions for ourselves. Some...
Jan 17, 2012 / Alison FrankTrailer: Wes Anderson’s ‘Moonrise Kingdom’
Director: Wes Anderson Writer: Wes Anderson Studio: Focus Features Cast: Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray Release: May 25, 2012 Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of...
Jan 13, 2012 / Eric M. ArmstrongSurviving ‘Surviving Life’
At the screening I attended of Jan Švankmajer’s Surviving Life (Theory and Practice) (2010), there were two walk-outs. I was tempted to follow, but my love of the great Czech animator’s previous work...
Jan 9, 2012 / Alison FrankThe 10 best films of 2011
Ryan Gosling in Nicolas Winding Refn's "Drive" It’s that time of year again when we intrepid critics whittle down the hundreds of titles we’ve seen over the last 365 days to the top 10 that made us...
Jan 8, 2012 / Eric M. ArmstrongRecent Articles
- Review: ‘A War’ explores war’s quiet, forgotten horrors
- TMA FilmCast #33 — Vera Chytilova and the Czech New Wave
- The fantasist: The comic art of Woody Allen
- Tribeca picks up North American rights to ‘Misery Loves Comedy’ at Sundance
- TMA FilmCast #32 — Alison Frank interviews Ana Geislerova
- ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ tops Online Film Critics Awards
- TMA FilmCast #31 — Alison Frank reports from 67th Locarno Film Fest
- 5 ½ hour film dominates awards at Locarno
- Shorts at #Locarno67: meditation vs testing the audience’s patience
- ‘The Fool’: A modern propaganda film
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