Movie Review | 'Quiet City': Between the Mumbles, Images of Sorrowful Poetry
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Tender and sad, Aaron Katzâs film âQuiet Cityâ is a fully realized work of mumblecore poetry.
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Woody Allen's new film isn't what it might be, but it has interesting things to say about class and morality
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Filled with moody shots of Zabarâs and lonely city streets, âAdrift in Manhattanâ looks dreamy and feels even less substantial.
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Christopher Shinnâs crafty and unsettling new play is a quiet, transfixing tale of grief and violence, set in the shadow of the Iraq war.
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"Magic Seeds," V.S. Naipaul's latest and possibly last book, is a quiet and introspective account of one man's drift through a world of revolution and social decay.
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The jingling piano, the humming traffic and the prancing horse tap out separate if connecting songs in the beguiling nonnarrative film âThe Silence Before Bach.â
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A paper-thin wall within a grungy East Village apartment building separates good and evil, hope and despair and Eastern and Western practice in this generally affecting debut feature.
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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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The familiar visual signposts of alienation are spiffily arrayed in Siegrid Alnoy's handsome but empty film debut.
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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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Trying to make sense of what is left behind envelops "Dying City," Christopher Shinn's remarkable tale of loss and how two very different people handle their grief.
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âYouth Without Youthâ is a narratively ambitious, visually sumptuous surrealist enterprise that tries to bend time and space together as neatly as the folds in an origami swan.
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Amy Foxâs sensitive new play nicely captures something of the loneliness and childlike joy of letting your imagination wander.
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âThe Linguists,â a film focused on studying the worldâs vanishing languages,  has its premiere this week at the Sundance Film Festival.
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âRise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny,â is the most ambitious product of the collaboration between Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. It is also the hardest of their works to pull off.
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As its title suggests, this eccentric film written and directed by Isabel Coixet, contemplates the insufficiency of language to encapsulate traumatic experience.
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In spite of its third-act collapse into obviousness and sentimentality, âI Am Legendâ is among Will Smithâs better movies.