Enter the Void

Gaspar Noé, the most formally challenging director working today, made his name previously less for the way in which he constructed his film...

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

The most common and enduring misconception about Oliver Stone is that his is a political filmmaker. This is true only insofar as he has made...

Second Thoughts: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

With the wide release of David Fincher's hotly anticipated The Social Network less than a week away, I decided to go back and watch som...

The World

The key directors of China's "Fifth Generation" of filmmakers created some of the great works of the '80s and '90s, bu...

Brian De Palma: The Fury

Though it never reaches the heights of De Palma's previous two features, The Fury combines the best aspects of both. It shares Obsessio...

The Town

After turning his career 180 degrees with his expertly economic take on Dennis Lehane with Gone Baby Gone , Ben Affleck appears to be on a m...

Se7en

David Fincher's Se7en remains in the public consciousness after a decade primarily for its climax -- both for its disturbing content an...

Pravda

Pravda is the first film of the Dziga Vertov Group to definitively achieve Jean-Luc Godard's aim to tear down his brand as a marketable...

Machete

When first announced, Machete , the full-length adaptation of the fake trailer Robert Rodriguez placed before his Grindhouse entry, it seem...

Eastern Promises

[This post originally appeared at Cinema Viewfinder as part of the David Cronenberg Blog-A-Thon. Please take the time to check out a few ot...