Whenever Wes Anderson releases a new movie, everyone wants to know how much it diverges from his previous work, and everyone hopes for a different answer. Fans find comfort in returning to the same kind of dazed, detached characters, framed… [ read more ]
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stu has written 5 articles so far, you can find them below.
Hugo
For all its faults, and there were many, Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island at least carried a sizable amount of cinephilic wonderment; citing its extreme stylization hardly does justice to its wealth of allusions, revelry in old-fashioned… [ read more ]
Othello
Orson Welles’s 1952 adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Othello is a low-budget independent production that was shot haphazardly over three years. As with much of Welles’s later work, there were many financial problems that hampered… [ read more ]
When Movies Mattered by Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr is one of the greatest American film critics whose best work remains all but impossible to read. Contemporaries like Jonathan Rosenbaum and J. Hoberman have published compilations of their work in regular intervals, and, even without… [ read more ]
Film Socialisme
Jean-Luc Godard, like Orson Welles before him, is a filmmaker lavishly praised for the very apparent brilliance that manifested itself early on in his career, only for his work to grow increasingly more obscure, unknown by several of his most… [ read more ]
“In one brush stroke, Jerry has killed the Jay-Z vibe that’s taken me years to cultivate and replaced it with a fat, brown baby vibe which is not as cool of a vibe.” -