Film Reviews
An evaluation of Roman Polanski as an artist
By David Walsh, November 20, 2009
Filmmaker Roman Polanski remains in a Zurich jail cell, while his lawyers fight the efforts by US authorities to extradite him. The director has a half-century-long artistic career that needs to be as...
Aesthetic choices: Aleksandr Sokurov’s The Sun
By Stefan Steinberg, November 20, 2009
Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov’s The Sun presents a snapshot picture of the Japanese emperor Hirohito and is one of a series of films Sokurov has devoted to leading political figures.
An evaluation of Roman Polanski as an artist—Part 2
By David Walsh, November 19, 2009
Filmmaker Roman Polanski remains in a Zurich jail cell, while his lawyers fight the efforts by US authorities to extradite him. The director has a half-century-long artistic career that needs to be as...
An evaluation of Roman Polanski as an artist—Part 1
By David Walsh, November 18, 2009
Filmmaker Roman Polanski remains in a Zurich jail cell, while his lawyers fight the efforts by US authorities to extradite him. The director has a half-century-long artistic career that needs to be as...
Not enough information: The Informant! directed by Steven Soderbergh
By Hiram Lee, November 11, 2009
Steven Soderbergh’s latest film takes on the true story of an FBI investigation into the price-fixing conspiracy at the Archer Daniels Midland company during the 1990s.
Jane Campion’s Bright Star: The story of John Keats and Fanny Brawne
By Joanne Laurier, November 5, 2009
Based on the biography of John Keats by Andrew Motion, New Zealand-born director Jane Campion’s new movie Bright Star tells the story of the poet’s relationship with Fanny Brawne.
An exposure of corruption: Afghanistan, on the Dollar Trail
By Mathew Benn, October 31, 2009
Afghanistan, on the Dollar Trail, written and directed by Paul Moreira and produced by Sue Spencer
The Invention of Lying: Telling the truth, or some of it
By Hiram Lee, October 20, 2009
Comedian Ricky Gervais makes his debut as a writer and director of feature films with a comedy set in a world in which human beings never developed the ability to lie.
Toronto International Film Festival 2009—Part 6
Thoroughly lost, or playing at it
By David Walsh, October 17, 2009
Lars von Trier from Denmark, once associated with the Dogme 95 group, has been making films for some two decades. His latest effort is Antichrist. It is a murky, hopelessly contrived, and, frankly, ri...
“Obama’s War”: A glimpse of US debacle in Afghanistan
By Bill Van Auken, October 15, 2009
“Obama’s War,” the hour-long television documentary aired on “Frontline” Tuesday, provides a telling glimpse of the debacle facing the US intervention in Afghanistan, but no real explanation...
Toronto International Film Festival 2009—Part 4
More human (and artistic) problems
By David Walsh, October 10, 2009
Where are the extraordinary and captivating film dramas, and comedies, that go to the heart of our time?
Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story
By Joanne Laurier and David Walsh, October 6, 2009
Veteran documentary filmmaker Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story sets out to examine the recent financial collapse. His aim, he suggests, is a critique of the existing economic set-up.
