Carlos Reygadas’s intractable, luminous film deals in punishing obscurity, uncommonly beautiful images and a kind of tight-lipped mysticism that jibes with the story’s German-speaking Mennonites who have cloistered themselves in Chihuahua, Mexico. The old folks bucked and snorted at the deliberate, lingering pace and the easily pretentious conversations referring to God and “the enemy” (the [...]
Why stop at 10 when there are so many excellent movies out there and the internet has infinite space? To settle any arguments that may spring up, some of these movies were released as early as 2007 and exhibited in theaters as late as 2009, but they are all uniquely connected with 2008 either [...]
It’s hard to shock a modern-day audience, but Teeth had packed houses at Sundance eliciting full-throttle screams in unison. It is one of the few non-pornographic movies that examines the power of the vagina, and dares to pose the question, “What if the vagina was no longer the most vulnerable part of [...]
This documentary details the life of little-known musician Arthur Russell, who never achieved widespread notoriety during his life, but who is arguably one of the most prolific musicians of our time. A cellist and song-writer, Russell set out to infiltrate all genres of music, from mainstream pop to esoteric man-and-cello ballads. [...]
Simultaneously serene and action-packed, this movie has everything: nascent adolescent love, redemption, revenge, bloody murder, and vampires! Set in the bleakest reaches of Sweden, the movie depicts the blossoming relationship between oft-bullied Oscar and possible vampire, Eli, during the dark days of Nordic winter. But even though the movie is about [...]
This documentary chronicles Philippe Petit, the tight-rope walker who illegally strung a rope between the peaks of the Twin Towers in 1974 and traipsed across it for the better part of 45 minutes before the cops finally got him down in the event that has been heralded as “the artistic crime of the [...]
Anywhere U.S.A. describes itself as an autobiography in three parts about a man who thinks his wife is cheating on him with a terrorist, based solely on the discovery of a pistachio in the couch of their trailer home, a little girl who accidentally eats an entire pan of pot brownies and begins to suspect [...]
Good Dick is a surprisingly hilarious look at an extremely dark topic, and despite the myriad emotional complexities the film explores, it is only 80 minutes long! Though it is short, it is a complete movie, leading us by way of comedy to the dark core of the film, and back out [...]