Movie Review | 'Wild Tigers I Have Known': A Loner Wanders Junior High, as a Lion Strays on Campus
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The moment at the dawn of adolescence when hormones and daydreams swirl into a heady fog of confusion is poetically evoked in âWild Tigers I Have Known.â
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Sean Penn finds a kindred spirit in the hero of âInto the Wild.â
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Meet one of Sudan's "lost boys," whose harrowing tale of escape, survival, and rebirth is recounted in the new documentary God Grew Tired of Us.
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For someone who revels in solitude in âInto the Wild,â Chris McCandless is remarkably good at making friends.
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There was a time when movies like âDOA: Dead or Aliveâ lurked sheepishly at schoolboy height on video store shelves, spines straining to accommodate the charms of their actresses.
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.
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If you were caught a little off  guard by the explosive success of this year's Disney's "High  School Musical," well, you weren't alone.
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KEO SEIMA, Cambodia -- Capturing a tiger on camera has always been Ed Pollard's goal, but now it's a necessity.
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The really surprising  thing is that no one has made this film before.
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Cycle marks the debut of Veneeth Sreenivasan as an actor into Malayalam cinema. Directed by Johny Antony and written by James Albert of Classmates fame is a dark and humorous youth oriented film.
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TORONTO - A few years back, Zhang Yimou was a bit miffed that fellow filmmaker Ang Lee was faster on the draw in elevating the martial-arts epic to serious cinema. But now that Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has broken the genre into the mainstream among Western audiences, Zhang is happy to follow his lead...
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A courageous documentary shows kids trying to escape Calcutta brothels. Some make it, some don't
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This sword-and-sandal spectacle from those epic-loving De Laurentiises might have made a good childrenâs film.
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An Oscar-nominated filmmaker will exhort Indians to conserve wildlife with a new film, but the message is contained in a racy thriller set in a famous tiger sanctuary instead of in a preachy documentary.
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A young man's quest for freedom takes him on a two-year journey from South Dakota to Alaska in Sean Penn's new film, a road movie chronicling the true story of a 24-year-old adventurer who did not come back.
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After Khel, which he directed for Suniel Shetty three years ago, thereÂs plenty of  ÂconfusionÂ in director Yusuf KhanÂs mind and life. And why not? ThatÂs the title of YusufÂs next film.
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Sean Penn's film about a middle-class dropout who confronts the Alaskan wilderness could have used more irony, says Richard Schickel