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Interview: Uli Edel

The Baader Meinhof Complex director talks about terror and glamour
Edel talks about terror and glamour

By: MIKE MILIARD | September 11, 2009

9/11 Truthers, Tea Parties, Birthers — conspiracy is in the air. No wonder Hollywood is embracing paranoia.
Eight years after the destruction of the World Trade Center — the result of one of the most devastatingly successful conspiracies in history — Americans still take comfort in paranoia.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 11, 2009

Willy Wonka in Smellovision

Scent of the Times
If you'll imagine the New England Confectionary Company in Revere to be Willy Wonka's magical estate, then Union Square would be the analogous working-class outskirt from where Charlie Bucket hails.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | September 09, 2009

Interview: RJ Cutler

Bringing vérité to Vogue
An ardent disciple of cinéma-vérité, filmmaker (and Harvard alum) RJ Cutler has taken us behind the scenes of Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign in The War Room and into the turbulent lives of 14 Illinois teens in American High.

By: SHAULA CLARK | September 08, 2009

Monster man and more

James Whale at the HFA
James Whale's career as a purveyor of marvelous film entertainments was brief.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | September 08, 2009

The hub of film criticism?

A peek into the Phoenix archives
In his deep survey, Gerald Peary hardly conceals his opinion that Boston is the epicenter of film criticism.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | September 02, 2009

Interview: Bobcat Goldthwait

Bobcat unleashes another not-so-funny comedy
"Not many people may know of my films, but I think they may have more legs than, like, a Kate Hudson movie."

By: BETSY SHERMAN | September 01, 2009

First look at James Cameron's Avatar

Titanic Gamble
James Cameron captained the biggest box-office smash of all time, his Titanic having grossed nearly $2 billion worldwide. But that was 12 years ago, long before the recession appeared on anyone's radar.

By: BRETT MICHEL | August 26, 2009

Interview: Quentin Tarantino

The director talks Basterds
Quentin Tarantino began writing the screenplay for Inglourious Basterds more than 10 years ago. When I got him on the phone, he talked about the film's long gestation and how he chose his actors.

By: KAM WILLIAMS | August 18, 2009

Bottle rocket

Charlyne Yi is a hot date
Who exactly is Charlyne Yi? Two years ago, she appeared — seemingly from out of nowhere — in a brief but memorable turn in Judd Apatow's Knocked Up. A closer look at Apatow's new Funny People , however, might provide a clue as to where he discovered her.

By: BRETT MICHEL | August 07, 2009

Interview: Judd Apatow

On the making of his Citizen Kane
Behind every successful comedian, there's . . . a personal assistant. Who, given how egomaniacal and utterly misanthropic the funnyman in question is, is probably his best friend, too.

By: LANCE GOULD | July 29, 2009

Splendor on the screen

Elia Kazan at the HFA
The arc of Elia Kazan's professional life has its origins in the Group Theatre, where he was trained as an actor and performed in the original 1930s productions of Clifford Odets's Waiting for Lefty and Golden Boy .

By: STEVE VINEBERG | July 29, 2009

WIN to see Harry Potter at Jordan's IMAX

Win tickets to see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince at any Jordan's Furniture store with an IMAX
Win a pair of tickets to see Harry Potter at any Jordan's IMAX

By: PHOENIX STAFF | July 23, 2009

Loop dreams

Iannucci and the future of political comedy
After laughing at the benighted morals and intelligence and the mordant wit of the reprehensible politicos of In the Loop , I had to ask myself, why now? Wouldn't this film have made more of an impact, both politically and commercially, if it had been made, say, before the 2004 American presidential election?

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 23, 2009

Cursed films

"Le Film Maudit" at the HFA
At some point while watching the features in the Harvard Film Archive's "Le Film Maudit" ("cursed films") series — perhaps during the "Circle of Shit" chapter in Pier Paolo Pasolini's SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM — you might ask yourself, which is more cursed, the movies or anyone unfortunate enough to be watching them?

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 17, 2009

White-knuckle thrill rites

Bigelow puts the art into action
Kathryn Bigelow's art-packed action movies

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 09, 2009

Interview: Kathryn Bigelow

The Hurt Locker director breaks out
Although everyone makes a point of Kathryn Bigelow's gender and height and good looks, what's germane is that even if she were short and had bushy eyebrows like Martin Scorsese, she still would be directing action pictures like no one since Sam Peckinpah and Sergio Leone .

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 08, 2009

French disconnections

The new-wavers at the French Film Festival
Last year's Boston French Film Festival featured Claude Chabrol's A Girl Cut in Two , and that, combined with this year's Chris Marker retrospective at the Harvard Film Archive and Agnès Varda's fine new The Beaches of Agnès , made it seem almost plausible that the New Wave might rise again.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 07, 2009

What John did and saw

Dillinger and Manhattan Melodrama
In anticipation of the July 1 release of Michael Mann's Public Enemies with Johnny Depp as John Dillinger, and as part of its week-long "Classic Gangsters" series, the Brattle is screening two rarely seen films this Sunday: John Milius's 1973 Dillinger and W.S. Van Dyke's Manhattan Melodrama.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | June 16, 2009

Phoenix staffers win at 48-hour Film Festival

Phoenix staffers' film wins top prize at 48 Hour Film Festival
Phoenix staffers' film wins top prize at 48 Hour Film Festival

By: PHOENIX STAFF | June 17, 2009

Style meets stylus

Eastern-inspired digital delights at the Brattle
It's a credit to Pixar's success that so many animated films of the past decade have been compelled to sport the sheen of CGI. But now that filmmakers have wrung reality out of 1's and 0's, they're starting to cast their eyes on the next frontier.

By: SHAULA CLARK | June 16, 2009

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