Truth Stranger Than 'Strangelove'
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In its own loopy way, Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove" is a remarkably fact-based and specific guide to some of the oddest, most secretive chapters of the Cold War.
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The new documentary â2 or 3 Things I Know About Himâ offers an unusually matter-of-fact picture of the private and public effects of ordinary evil.
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Director James Cameron announces a documentary that he believes will shake the underpinnings of Christianity
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Mel Gibson and Michael Moore made very different movies with the same message: The truth shall make you free
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The darkness of the soul encounters the science of pharmaceuticals.
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With The Polar Express chugging into movie theaters and a fictional North Pole, we're finding out that sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction. Photo Gallery
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It's a thoroughly Hollywood version of a "true story," but this film's got heart -- and a worthwhile message
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Billing David O. Russell&#39;s new film I Heart Huckabees as &quot;an existential comedy&quot; is fairly problematic: After all, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus weren&#39;t exactly laugh riots.
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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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An absurd premise hampers Peter Carey's latest novel, a herky-jerky affair that lurches between the compelling and the lackadaisical.
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Variety - HOLLYWOOD -- I was surprised by the relative lack of hoopla surrounding the 50th anniversary of latenight television.
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Love is blind, and so too is Linda Pugach, one of the loony-tuners in the somewhat sickening, mildly gonzo documentary âCrazy Love.â
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Jonathan Caouette's autobiographical film is one of the strangest and most interesting movies of the year.
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If there were more experimental films as entertaining as this Hollywood ghost story, the notion of a thriving avant-garde cinema might not be so intimidating to the moviegoing public.
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Popular wisdom is often an oxymoron.
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When I sat down with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, I was surprised by what I found: a softer, more conciliatory Farrakhan -- a man who says his battle with cancer has changed him in ways he'd never imagined.
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Jonathan Glazer knows weird. His stunning Sexy Beast was a provocative but strange being, marked by a powerful performance by Ben Kingsley.