Is it that time of the year yet? I thought I'd post my picks early, with two disclaimers: 1. My list isn't limited to movies made or released in 2009, but to the ones I only saw this year. (The not-always ...Read More
Olivier Assayas' exquisite new film, Summer Hours (L'heure d'été) began, at least for myself, almost frighteningly like a generic Miramax French family drama: a sun-dappled lawn, a picture-perfect al fresco meal, children playing gaily on the grounds, and a cast, ...Read More
About 20 minutes into the annoying Boarding Gate, I was wishing Olivier Assayas had made something like Hal Hartley's Fay Grim instead. The two films really aren't all that dissimilar, working within the form and generally limited grammar of the ...Read More