Movie Review | 'Honeydripper': Way Down in Harmony, With Mythic Blues Again
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âHoneydripper,â directed by John Sayles, is a shambling fusion of pop mythology and social mosaic.
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Kirby Dick's feisty, intellectually engaging documentary tries to illuminate an aspect of moviemaking Â and moviegoing Â that is deliberately left in the dark.
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The journey of Henry Winterstern is a classic tale of Hollywoodâs irresistible lure and the hubris that so often leads to a sudden demise.
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Anirudhdh and Anant Nag shine in this run of the mill film.
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Fine performances from a stand-out cast punctuate this post-9/11 cinematic offspring. But Ladder 49 overkills on melodrama -- the slow-paced adventure flick has enough tear-jerking Hallmark moments to extinguish a three-alarm blaze.
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Cuckoldry is rarely as tedious or as raucous as it is in the East River Commediaâs revival of Fernand Crommelynckâs 1920 play.
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âEagle vs Sharkâ is one of those movies that invite you to laugh at its misfit characters and empathize with them at the same time.
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Death, beauty and the persistence of art are the vast topics addressed in Heddy Honigmannâs frustrating documentary âForever.â
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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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Michel Gondry's beguiling new film is so profoundly idiosyncratic, and so confident in its oddity, that any attempt to describe it is bound to be misleading.
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Erik Friedlander offers an idiosyncratic version of American roots music, with steady, folklike themes that unfold like a trip down an endless highway.
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John Waters's first film in four years is a grindingly anarchic attempt to have it both ways, to be both cheerfully inclusive and in-your-face nasty.
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In "Keane," the filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan both gives us a life at the edge of the abyss and pulls off an extremely deft narrative sleight of hand.
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The ambitiously genre-crossing yet disastrously executed ÂTheyÂre Just My FriendsÂ is hands down the most excruciatingly inept film to creep its way into theaters in some time.
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A jaunty assortment of parlor magicianâs tricks ornament this fast and funny production. But the real magic happens when the bad actors take over.
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âMagic Mirrorâ is a droll comedy about the impossibility of shaking the burdens of your dreams and obligations.
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"Flyboys" is a decidedly  old-fashioned war film that reaches for epic sweep but is often  bogged down in cliched drama and two-dimensional characters.