Month: May 2015

[Review] When Marnie Was There

If Hiromasa Yonebayashi’s When Marnie Was There does turn out to be the last Studio Ghibli theatrical film, then the animation powerhouse will be going out on a...

[Review] Aloha

Cameron Crowe has made a career telling stories of flawed men who are saved thanks to young, quasi-magical women. His best films have shown the cracks in these ...

[Review] Animals

Jude (David Dastmalchian) and Bobbie (Kim Shaw) look like the well-bred, fresh-faced couple you’d find at the beginning of any indie rom-com. The only differenc...

[Review] San Andreas

Can you call a movie a disaster flick without the President of the United States declaring a state of emergency? While I ask in jest, we do expect such a soberi...

Jean-Pierre Melville and Jean Renoir Films Hit Criterion: The Search for Humanity

While there was a certain tendency in French cinema, two of the great directors of this era that would be exalted by Cahiers Du Cinema designed two very different yet complimentary systems to tell stories. On one side, the young blood of Jean-Pierre Melville, a so-called American in Paris, but more accurately, a geometrician of human calculations. On the other: the old master, Jean Renoir, who makes every moment of cinema feel accidentally captured, and thus indelibly human....