The acting is convincing, despite the characters coming across as alienating French film stereotypes, passionate and withdrawn at the same time, while discussing vague concepts of human nature and love.
More a portrait than a narrative film, it may place viewers in park for its relatively brief duration rather than drive them in any particular direction, but Eckman's subjects are so wittily articulate that the film just offers one quotable zinger after a
A documentary about parking lot attendants, their feelings about their job, and their theories about other aspects of life.
As a portrait of Babylon, before Aids and the Nineties doused its fire, Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato's film captures the mood of decadence unchained
Flamboyant drama based on the life of club-kid promoter Michael Alig.
A more introspective and self-seeking set of individuals would be hard to find. The analogies used are heavy-handed and the script - or at least the translation of it - not much better.
Disillusioned friends, many of them actors, meet at a country house in winter.
After the initial disbelief that Jarmusch has written and directed a movie as simple and quiet as this, you settle into the rhythm of the piece and begin to appreciate the secret
Story of a bus driver and a poet and a maker of cup cakes and a dog walker and a week in New Jersey where small things happen
Natasha Richardson gives an intelligent performance that captures the intensity of her fear, without losing touch with the humanity of a situation that involves other women with different agendas.
True story of how priviliged Patty Hearst was kidnapped by revolutionaries and later converted to their cause.
Peace Officer is an interesting film because of its balance.
The man who established Utah's first SWAT team investigates the death of his son-in-law at the hands of another SWAT team, unwilling to accept the official ruling.
