Dang, the New York Film Critics Circle is getting old. The group’s 90th-annual ceremony is promising to be a toast each and every one of those nine decades come 2025.
The NYFCC will ring in its 90th anniversary with a Gala Awards dinner on Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at Tao Downtown. IndieWire can confirm that a special anniversary program is in the works to celebrate this historic milestone for the NYFCC.
“This has already been an exciting time for moviegoing, and I can’t wait to see what the rest of 2024 holds before our 90th anniversary dinner,” NYFCC Chair David Sims said. “NYFCC has always been there to recognize and celebrate the best in cinema, and we’ll be sure to put on an especially fun show next January.”
Sims will serve as the 2024 Chair of the NYFCC, Stephen Garrett will continue as the group’s General Manager. IndieWire’s own Kate Erbland...
The NYFCC will ring in its 90th anniversary with a Gala Awards dinner on Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at Tao Downtown. IndieWire can confirm that a special anniversary program is in the works to celebrate this historic milestone for the NYFCC.
“This has already been an exciting time for moviegoing, and I can’t wait to see what the rest of 2024 holds before our 90th anniversary dinner,” NYFCC Chair David Sims said. “NYFCC has always been there to recognize and celebrate the best in cinema, and we’ll be sure to put on an especially fun show next January.”
Sims will serve as the 2024 Chair of the NYFCC, Stephen Garrett will continue as the group’s General Manager. IndieWire’s own Kate Erbland...
- 4/30/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Most of Marvel Studios’s films are the cinematic equivalent of breadcrumbs, which have been dropped into theaters strategically so as to keep one looking for the next sequel or crossover, when the endless televisual exposition will eventually, theoretically yield an event of actual consequence. Occasionally, however, a Marvel film transcends this impersonality and justifies one’s patience. Weird, stylish, and surprisingly lyrical, Ant-Man, Iron Man 3, and Doctor Strange attest to the benefits of the old Hollywood-style studio system that Marvel has resurrected: Under the umbrella of structure and quota is security, which can bequeath qualified freedom. On the occasion of the release of Nia DaCosta’s The Marvels, here’s a ranking of every film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) to date. Chuck Bowen
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on April 25, 2018.
33. The Incredible Hulk (2008)
The aesthetic dexterity and psychological depth of Ang Lee’s...
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on April 25, 2018.
33. The Incredible Hulk (2008)
The aesthetic dexterity and psychological depth of Ang Lee’s...
- 11/9/2023
- by Slant Staff
- Slant Magazine
The hard drives are concealed in lipstick cases and the latex face masks are now molded with the help of a 3D printer, but the considerable and surprisingly consistent pleasures of the Mission: Impossible series rely on more vintage touches: ambiguous bombshells of a classical Hollywood beauty; Cold War-era villains; and Tom Cruise’s eternal commitment to scaling buildings, escaping shackles, and crashing through plates of glass.
Mirroring phases of the star’s career, the franchise has cast Ethan Hunt as a cocksure maverick (Brian De Palma’s original), devoted romantic (John Woo’s Mission: Impossible II), and a prospective husband (J.J. Abrams’s Mission: Impossible III). Since then, a series which has never shown much interest in character-building has become the perfect embodiment of Cruise’s illegible reputation. Brad Bird’s Ghost Protocol rendered Hunt an avatar, nearly silent in his service to the director’s kinetic set pieces,...
Mirroring phases of the star’s career, the franchise has cast Ethan Hunt as a cocksure maverick (Brian De Palma’s original), devoted romantic (John Woo’s Mission: Impossible II), and a prospective husband (J.J. Abrams’s Mission: Impossible III). Since then, a series which has never shown much interest in character-building has become the perfect embodiment of Cruise’s illegible reputation. Brad Bird’s Ghost Protocol rendered Hunt an avatar, nearly silent in his service to the director’s kinetic set pieces,...
- 7/12/2023
- by Slant Staff
- Slant Magazine
After its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, Focus Features’ “Armageddon Time” hit theaters nationwide on October 28. The coming-of-age drama has launched itself into the awards discussion with a star-studded cast and a freshness rating of 89 on Rotten Tomatoes. After being transferred to a private school, a young Jewish boy named Paul (played by breakout star Banks Repeta) deals with prejudice and the challenges of growing up in 1980 New York.
The cast includes Oscar winners Anne Hathaway and Sir Anthony Hopkins, Emmy winner Jeremy Strong, and cameo from Jessica Chastain as Maryanne Trump. The film was written and directed by James Gray, inspired by his upbringing in Queens. So what do the critics have to say?
Joshua Rothkopf of Entertainment Weekly writes, “Gray is after something rarer — a tone that, apart from his recent trips to the Amazon jungle (2016’s ‘The Lost City of Z’) and deep...
The cast includes Oscar winners Anne Hathaway and Sir Anthony Hopkins, Emmy winner Jeremy Strong, and cameo from Jessica Chastain as Maryanne Trump. The film was written and directed by James Gray, inspired by his upbringing in Queens. So what do the critics have to say?
Joshua Rothkopf of Entertainment Weekly writes, “Gray is after something rarer — a tone that, apart from his recent trips to the Amazon jungle (2016’s ‘The Lost City of Z’) and deep...
- 10/28/2022
- by Vincent Mandile
- Gold Derby
While the Oscars and other awards bodies have all pushed events back on their calendar and expanded eligibility for what movies can be considered, the New York Film Critics Circle will only consider movies released in the 2020 calendar year for its annual awards.
The Nyfcc announced Friday it will vote for its 2020 awards on Dec. 18 and that only movies released in theaters or on digital platforms between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2020, will be considered.
Further, the date for the group’s annual Gala Awards dinner is still to be announced, and membership for 2020 members will be frozen this year, with all current members still eligible to vote, even as many critics’ jobs have been affected by Covid-19. No new members will be voted in this year.
“This is a year unlike any other in our lifetimes. But the world of movies hasn’t stopped, and already, even in this very strange year,...
The Nyfcc announced Friday it will vote for its 2020 awards on Dec. 18 and that only movies released in theaters or on digital platforms between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2020, will be considered.
Further, the date for the group’s annual Gala Awards dinner is still to be announced, and membership for 2020 members will be frozen this year, with all current members still eligible to vote, even as many critics’ jobs have been affected by Covid-19. No new members will be voted in this year.
“This is a year unlike any other in our lifetimes. But the world of movies hasn’t stopped, and already, even in this very strange year,...
- 9/11/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
First Cow, Kelly Reichardt’s latest foray into the northwest past, is a period piece set in 1820s Oregon Territory, where a couple of outcasts (John Magaro’s Cookie and Orion Lee’s King-Lu) embark on a picaresque financial venture involving a cow, stolen milk, and delicious pastries. Co-written with Jonathan Raymond and based on his novel The Half Life, it’s a zero-sum struggle between haves and have-nots that harkens back to what A.A. Dowd at the A.V. Club sees as “a national creation myth”—a film that’s concerned with tracing “the roots of our ballyhooed entrepreneurial spirit, and the harsh reality of how it often collides with established wealth.” Such roots, Karen Han contends at Polygon, draw from the American Dream itself, of which Reichardt’s film offers a small-scale rendition:The conversations the two men have about what they’re doing — the balance between risk and reward,...
- 7/24/2020
- MUBI
Fox Searchlight unveiled Taika Waititi’s “Jojo Rabbit” to sharply divided reactions at the Toronto International Film Festival. The coming-of-age comedy-drama is set in Nazi Germany and centers around a young boy whose sense of nationalism is rattled after he discovers his mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their home. Waititi himself stars in the movie as the boy’s imaginary friend, who just so happens to be a cartoonish version of Adolf Hitler. More than a few film critics have compared “Jojo Rabbit” to “Life Is Beautiful,” Roberto Benigni’s equally divisive 1997 Holocaust comedy-drama.
Variety film critic Owen Gleiberman called “Jojo Rabbit” this year’s “model of Nazi Oscar-bait showmanship: ‘Life Is Beautiful’ made with attitude,” adding the film “pretends to be audacious when it’s actually quite tidy and safe…it’s a studiously conventional movie dressed up in the self-congratulatory ‘daring’ of its look!-let’s-prank-the-Nazis cachet.
Variety film critic Owen Gleiberman called “Jojo Rabbit” this year’s “model of Nazi Oscar-bait showmanship: ‘Life Is Beautiful’ made with attitude,” adding the film “pretends to be audacious when it’s actually quite tidy and safe…it’s a studiously conventional movie dressed up in the self-congratulatory ‘daring’ of its look!-let’s-prank-the-Nazis cachet.
- 9/9/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
A documentary about West Hollywood's gay porn emporium Circus of Books, a conversation with comedian Kathy Griffin and a special prize for Late Night helmer Nisha Ganatra are all included in the lineup for the 2019 edition of Outfest.
Los Angeles' Lgbtq film festival — scheduled for July 18-28 — will open with Rachel Mason's Circus of Books, fresh from its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York and a distribution deal with Netflix. (In his review, THR critic Keith Uhlich calls the doc "obscenely poignant.") The July 18 gala event will take place in ...
Los Angeles' Lgbtq film festival — scheduled for July 18-28 — will open with Rachel Mason's Circus of Books, fresh from its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York and a distribution deal with Netflix. (In his review, THR critic Keith Uhlich calls the doc "obscenely poignant.") The July 18 gala event will take place in ...
- 6/21/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
A documentary about West Hollywood's gay porn emporium Circus of Books, a conversation with comedian Kathy Griffin and a special prize for Late Night helmer Nisha Ganatra are all included in the lineup for the 2019 edition of Outfest.
Los Angeles' Lgbtq film festival — scheduled for July 18-28 — will open with Rachel Mason's Circus of Books, fresh from its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York and a distribution deal with Netflix. (In his review, THR critic Keith Uhlich calls the doc "obscenely poignant.") The July 18 gala event will take place in ...
Los Angeles' Lgbtq film festival — scheduled for July 18-28 — will open with Rachel Mason's Circus of Books, fresh from its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York and a distribution deal with Netflix. (In his review, THR critic Keith Uhlich calls the doc "obscenely poignant.") The July 18 gala event will take place in ...
- 6/21/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cinema Guild on Thursday announced the acquisition of all U.S. distribution rights to Lucio Castro's End of the Century.
The Argentine film made its world premiere at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and MoMA’s New Directors/New Films and won the best Argentine film award at the Buenos Aires Film Festival last month.
Described in Keith Uhlich's review as both a "space-age love song" and "an erotic, time-jumping feature debut," Castro's film follows Ocho (Juan Barberini), a thirty-something Argentine poet on vacation in Barcelona, and Javi (Ramón Pujol), a Spaniard from Berlin. After a ...
The Argentine film made its world premiere at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and MoMA’s New Directors/New Films and won the best Argentine film award at the Buenos Aires Film Festival last month.
Described in Keith Uhlich's review as both a "space-age love song" and "an erotic, time-jumping feature debut," Castro's film follows Ocho (Juan Barberini), a thirty-something Argentine poet on vacation in Barcelona, and Javi (Ramón Pujol), a Spaniard from Berlin. After a ...
Cinema Guild on Thursday announced the acquisition of all U.S. distribution rights to Lucio Castro's End of the Century.
The Argentine film made its world premiere at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and MoMA’s New Directors/New Films and won the best Argentine film award at the Buenos Aires Film Festival last month.
Described in Keith Uhlich's review as both a "space-age love song" and "an erotic, time-jumping feature debut," Castro's film follows Ocho (Juan Barberini), a thirty-something Argentine poet on vacation in Barcelona, and Javi (Ramón Pujol), a Spaniard from Berlin. After a ...
The Argentine film made its world premiere at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and MoMA’s New Directors/New Films and won the best Argentine film award at the Buenos Aires Film Festival last month.
Described in Keith Uhlich's review as both a "space-age love song" and "an erotic, time-jumping feature debut," Castro's film follows Ocho (Juan Barberini), a thirty-something Argentine poet on vacation in Barcelona, and Javi (Ramón Pujol), a Spaniard from Berlin. After a ...
The Marvel film cycle that began in 2008 with the first Iron Man movie, Marvel Studios’ first film, is coming to an end. This article avoids major spoilers, but let’s just say that death is the catalyst for this change. Avengers: Endgame is the 22nd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (or the McU), the movie universe inhabited by Marvel Studios franchise characters like Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Black Widow, Ant-Man, Black Panther, Captain Marvel, and too many others to list them all.The main things to know before watching the new movie is that in Endgame’s predecessor, Avengers: Infinity War, the supervillain Thanos destroyed half of the universe in order to save the other half from overpopulation, which stretches the universe’s resources too thin. (I’m going to give these movies the benefit of the doubt and assume this sounds less ridiculous in context than it...
- 5/1/2019
- MUBI
The reviews are in for Peter Segal's Second Act, which stars Jennifer Lopez, Leah Remini, Vanessa Hudgens and Milo Ventimiglia.
Lopez stars as Maya Vargas, an assistant manager at a grocery store in Queens that reinvents herself to land an impressive job on Madison Avenue. While she doesn't have a degree, she believes that her street smarts are enough to help her succeed in the corporate world.
The film, which hits theaters Friday, has critics largely unenthusiastic. As of Thursday, the film had earned a 54 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Hollywood Reporter's Keith Uhlich called the ...
Lopez stars as Maya Vargas, an assistant manager at a grocery store in Queens that reinvents herself to land an impressive job on Madison Avenue. While she doesn't have a degree, she believes that her street smarts are enough to help her succeed in the corporate world.
The film, which hits theaters Friday, has critics largely unenthusiastic. As of Thursday, the film had earned a 54 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Hollywood Reporter's Keith Uhlich called the ...
- 12/20/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The reviews are in for Peter Segal's Second Act, which stars Jennifer Lopez, Leah Remini, Vanessa Hudgens and Milo Ventimiglia.
Lopez stars as Maya Vargas, an assistant manager at a grocery store in Queens that reinvents herself to land an impressive job on Madison Avenue. While she doesn't have a degree, she believes that her street smarts are enough to help her succeed in the corporate world.
The film, which hits theaters Friday, has critics largely unenthusiastic. As of Thursday, the film had earned a 54 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Hollywood Reporter's Keith Uhlich called the ...
Lopez stars as Maya Vargas, an assistant manager at a grocery store in Queens that reinvents herself to land an impressive job on Madison Avenue. While she doesn't have a degree, she believes that her street smarts are enough to help her succeed in the corporate world.
The film, which hits theaters Friday, has critics largely unenthusiastic. As of Thursday, the film had earned a 54 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Hollywood Reporter's Keith Uhlich called the ...
- 12/20/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
You may think that three-time Primetime Emmy Award winner Regina King has one or two Academy Award nominations under her belt, but she actually has never been nominated despite being a consistent, reliable film presence since the ’90s. But she might finally be able to rack up her first nomination and perhaps even win this season for her supporting performance in Barry Jenkins‘ “If Beale Street Could Talk.” If she does, she’d join a long list of actors who won their first Oscar on their inaugural nomination.
Recent champs to strike Oscar gold on their first nominations include:
1. Allison Janney
2. Mahershala Ali
3. Brie Larson
4. Mark Rylance
5. Alicia Vikander
6. Eddie Redmayne
7. Patricia Arquette
8. J.K. Simmons
9. Matthew McConaughey
10.Jared Leto
11. Lupita Nyong’o
Based on James Baldwin’s 1974 novel of the same name, “Beale Street,” which opens Nov. 30, follows about two childhood best friends, 22-year-old Fonny Hunt (Stephan James) and 19-year-old...
Recent champs to strike Oscar gold on their first nominations include:
1. Allison Janney
2. Mahershala Ali
3. Brie Larson
4. Mark Rylance
5. Alicia Vikander
6. Eddie Redmayne
7. Patricia Arquette
8. J.K. Simmons
9. Matthew McConaughey
10.Jared Leto
11. Lupita Nyong’o
Based on James Baldwin’s 1974 novel of the same name, “Beale Street,” which opens Nov. 30, follows about two childhood best friends, 22-year-old Fonny Hunt (Stephan James) and 19-year-old...
- 10/18/2018
- by Luca Giliberti
- Gold Derby
Legendary actor Robert Redford is reportedly retiring from acting after “The Old Man and the Gun,” which opened on September 28. He stars in the film as real-life bank-robber Forrest Tucker, a career criminal who spent his life robbing banks, getting arrested and escaping prison. Rinse and repeat. Is this film a fitting farewell for the man whose career breakthrough came almost 50 years ago in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” (1969)?
As of this writing “Old Man” has a MetaCritic score of 81 and an 89% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The Tomatometer critical consensus calls it “a well-told story brought to life by a beautifully matched cast” and a “pure, easygoing entertainment for film fans — and a fitting farewell to a legend.” It’s the “best film yet” by director David Lowery, who previously helmed “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” (2013), “Pete’s Dragon” (2016) and “A Ghost Story” (2017).
As for Redford, he exhibits “brilliant,...
As of this writing “Old Man” has a MetaCritic score of 81 and an 89% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The Tomatometer critical consensus calls it “a well-told story brought to life by a beautifully matched cast” and a “pure, easygoing entertainment for film fans — and a fitting farewell to a legend.” It’s the “best film yet” by director David Lowery, who previously helmed “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” (2013), “Pete’s Dragon” (2016) and “A Ghost Story” (2017).
As for Redford, he exhibits “brilliant,...
- 9/28/2018
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Halloween first reactions are rolling in, and as is often the case with highly anticipated films, there's a lot of extreme praise to the point many start to be skeptical about their legitimacy. Headlines like "Halloween has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes," and even the stuff we posted show there are a Lot of people praising this film.
Well, in the time since those headlines yesterday the Rotten Tomatoes rating has dropped down to a 79% with a few critics being more down on the film than others. The criticisms are starting to roll in, and in case you were curious to see what they're saying, here are some of the main complaints.
First up we have A.V. Club's A.A. Dowd, who feels the film is just another bland sequel in the Halloween franchise. He would appear to be fine with that, had the film not retconned all prior sequels,...
Well, in the time since those headlines yesterday the Rotten Tomatoes rating has dropped down to a 79% with a few critics being more down on the film than others. The criticisms are starting to roll in, and in case you were curious to see what they're saying, here are some of the main complaints.
First up we have A.V. Club's A.A. Dowd, who feels the film is just another bland sequel in the Halloween franchise. He would appear to be fine with that, had the film not retconned all prior sequels,...
- 9/10/2018
- by Mick Joest
- GeekTyrant
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe great French actor Stéphane Audran has died at the age of 85. David Hudson provides a thoughtful remembrance and career overview for The Daily.Following their producer-director collaboration on Amazon's underrated Red Oaks series, 90s contemporaries Gregg Araki and Steven Soderbergh are re-teaming for a most promising new Starz series entitled Now Apocalypse. Recommended VIEWINGFilm critic and Museum of Modern Art curator Dave Kehr investigates the many aspects that compose a western, and more largely, the genre's influence, origins, legacy, and future, in this wonderful video essay:The first trailer for Under the Silver Lake, David Robert Mitchell's long anticipated (and Thomas Pynchon inspired?) follow up to It Follows:Kino Lorber is re-releasing Personal Problems, a forgotten masterwork by Bill Gunn (Ganja & Hess) and an early and essential experiment in video filmmaking. Here's...
- 3/28/2018
- MUBI
X-Files Recap is a weekly column by Keith Uhlich covering Chris Carter's 10-episode continuation of the X-Files television series.Trust your instincts. I had a notion during the teaser sequence of “Nothing Lasts Forever” (episode 9 of The X-Files’ 11th season, written by Karen Nielsen and directed by James Wong) that it would be best recapped alongside “My Struggle IV” (the season, and possibly series finale, written and directed by Xf creator Chris Carter). Amid the sanguine, pre-opening credits hubbub—a pair of cannibalistic physicians harvest (and taste-sample) human organs, only to be interrupted by an avenging angel vigilante named Juliet Bocanegra (Carlena Britch)—there’s a fleeting audio clip on a car radio of Tad O’Malley (Joel McHale), the paranoid host of an Alex Jones-esque media pageant who was last seen in Season 10's "My Struggle II," bellowing about mind-altering gases and chem trails. It’s a...
- 3/26/2018
- MUBI
X-Files Recap is a weekly column by Keith Uhlich covering Chris Carter's 10-episode continuation of the X-Files television series.Shafts of light outlined by drizzly mist. A soon-to-be massacred boy (Sebastian Billingsley-Rodriguez) separated from his mother. A shape-shifting monster lurking in the woods. Business as usual on The X-Files, though there’s something about the adeptly creepy teaser sequence of “Familiar” (the eighth episode of Season 11, penned by former Xf writer’s assistant Benjamin Van Allen, and beautifully, atmospherically directed by series newcomer Holly Dale) that feels provocatively off and strange. It’s a sensation that extends over the entirety of an installment sure to be categorized as “old school,” though it more accurately blends the freshly peculiar with the staunchly, yes, familiar. “Thanks for backing me up out there,” says FBI Special Agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) to her partner Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) after they mutually spar...
- 3/9/2018
- MUBI
X-Files Recap is a weekly column by Keith Uhlich covering Chris Carter's 10-episode continuation of the X-Files television series.This one’s a keeper. The latest X-Files episode—titled “Rm9sbG93ZXJz” (Base64 code for “Followers”), directed by series executive producer Glen Morgan, and co-written by Shannon Hamblin and Morgan’s wife Kristen Cloke—begins with a story surrounding the story. An unseen narrator tells us that an artificially intelligent Talkbot was released on Twitter in 2016. Meant to mimic the half-formed mind and naïve locutions of a teenage girl, it quickly adapted its replies to all responses and retweets, thinking (or perhaps “thinking”) more and more for itself. The problem was that the bot mirrored the worst of us rather than the best of us, promoting half-assed conspiracy theories and spouting racist rhetoric, among many bad virtual behaviors. Its knowledge became, like so many of those who live the majority of their lives online,...
- 3/2/2018
- MUBI
X-Files Recap is a weekly column by Keith Uhlich covering Chris Carter's 10-episode continuation of the X-Files television series.The past never leaves us. It flickers in our subconscious—hazy, nagging memories—until something (a sight, a smell, some other trigger) stokes it. All of an instant, where we are becomes where we were, a cognitive dissonance that FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) surely perceive at the beginning of “Kitten” (the sixth episode of The X-Files’ eleventh season, written by Gabe Rotter and directed by Carol Banker) when they walk into the office of Deputy Director Alvin Kersh (James Pickens, Jr.). “I’m gonna ask you once and only once,” he says in his stock surly tone. “Where is he?” We’ll get to who “he” is in a moment. First it behooves us to consider if the Kersh Mulder and Scully...
- 2/20/2018
- MUBI
X-Files Recap is a weekly column by Keith Uhlich covering Chris Carter's 10-episode continuation of the X-Files television series.“It’s a whole life,” says FBI Special Agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) as she studies the belongings of recently deceased teenager Jackson Van De Kamp (Miles Robbins), apparently felled by a self-inflicted gunshot wound after murdering his parents. Not his real parents, mind you. It’s eventually proven via DNA test that Jackson was adopted and that he is actually Scully’s child—ostensibly with her professional and occasional romantic partner Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), though more likely the result of a eugenics experiment conducted on her by Mulder’s heinous biological father the Cigarette Smoking Man (William B. Davis). But does biology always trump spirit? Is Jackson, birth name William, any less Scully and Mulder’s son despite some genetic differences (the full extent of which have yet...
- 2/2/2018
- MUBI
X-Files Recap is a weekly column by Keith Uhlich covering Chris Carter's 10-episode continuation of the X-Files television series.Some late-night chatter overheard at a diner: “The world’s gone mad…” says Martin (Dan Zukovic), a man of wild stare and clammy brow. “…because Martians have invaded, but nobody seems to care!” The eatery’s owner, Buddy (Alex Diakun), tries to calm the guy down with a bit of coffee and straight talk, but Martin—convinced that these extraterrestrial invaders are using some kind of mind-erasing laser gun—isn’t having it. His paranoia is soon proven true, since Martin turns out to be one of the bulbous-headed, multi-appendage aliens and Buddy is actually Satan himself. (What a twist!) But just before the big reveal, a fearful Martin points down the counter, right at the camera—at us, the audience, watching. “There! I just saw one!” he says, “Outside through that window!
- 1/27/2018
- MUBI
X-Files Recap is a weekly column by Keith Uhlich covering Chris Carter's 10-episode continuation of the X-Files television series.To know someone intimately is to risk familiarity, and we all know what that breeds. Not that FBI Special Agents and ex-flames Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) are contemptuous of each other, exactly. Their disdain is more often directed inward, at those subconscious voices that dissuade and derail, reminding them that the clock (on both their work and on life itself) is always ticking. The duo's flirty, jargon-heavy banter is, beyond its innumerable surface pleasures (could any other pair so bewitchingly debate Gastaut-Geschwind syndrome?), a defense mechanism against the devils within and without. Find that one person who you can most easily converse with, whose sentences you don’t just finish but practically prophesy, and nothing can hold you back. That’s how it should ideally work,...
- 1/19/2018
- MUBI
X-Files Recap is a weekly column by Keith Uhlich covering Chris Carter's 10-episode continuation of the X-Files television series.Life is a series of moments, strung together, rarely with much sensitivity or sense. Let’s look at two such moments, each from the teaser sequence of The X-Files’ second episode of its eleventh season (an installment titled “This,” written and directed by series executive producer Glen Morgan). The first: A car—its radio blasting the Ramones’ cover of “California Sun”—races toward a destination. The second: A pair of people—colleagues at first, then friends, then lovers, now middle-aged familiars—rests on a couch. One moment active, one moment passive, both on a collision course. But at this juncture, each instant exists unto itself. “There is only this—all else is unreal,” mused a character in Terrence Malick’s great romantic historical The New World (2005). (A prescient rhyme, perhaps,...
- 1/12/2018
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.Recommended VIEWINGJay-z's great taste in directors continues with the Safdie brothers, who both lent a deft hand for the "Marcy Me" video, which feels like a thematic addendum to their own film Good Time.Ava Duvernay (Selma) also directed this star-studded epic music video for Jay-z's "Family Feud".Who doesn't love pulp movie maestro Samuel Fuller? In the event of their active retrospective of his work, the Cinémathèque française provides this ecstatic montage of a few of his finest films.Recommended READINGPerhaps you missed Sarah Nicole Prickett's incisive recaps of Twin Peaks: The Return for Artforum? If that's the case, you can catch up here. Prickett has shared her final take on Episode 18 and the series overall, and it was well worth the wait. From Alejandro G. Iñárritu to Jia Zhangke—the January/February...
- 1/10/2018
- MUBI
X-Files Recap is a weekly column by Keith Uhlich covering Chris Carter's 10-episode continuation of the X-Files television series.How do you follow the end of the world? Hold that thought. Let’s start with another question, one of the previous year’s most pressing: Is it film or is it television? I could be talking about David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks revival, which I covered for Mubi this past summer, and which caused quite a stir after it placed second in Sight & Sound magazine’s 2017 movie poll, as well as first on a year-end list from the French film journal Cahiers du cinéma. I could also be talking about the subject of this column, the long-running science-fiction serial The X-Files, which just returned on January 3rd for a ten episode 11th season, and which its creator—guru-like surfing journalist-turned-tv showrunner Chris Carter—has often equated with making a weekly “mini-movie.
- 1/5/2018
- MUBI
The New York Film Critics Circle has moved back the date of their voting from last year's unexpectedly early November 29th to December 3rd this year, it was announced today. The awards -- also announced on the 3rd -- will be handed out during their annual ceremony to be held on Monday, January 7, 2013 at Crimson. Last year, the critics gave their top prize to "The Artist" in a vote that took place two weeks earlier than usual. Some criticized the group for trying to be the first to announce at the expense of members being able to see films released late in the year. The Circle also announced three new members in Bilge Ebiri (New York Magazine), Nick Pinkerton (Village Voice) and Keith Uhlich (Time Out New York). Chairman Joshua Rothkopf said in a statement: "We're always happy to see the group grow. Criticism is as vital as ever; our...
- 10/16/2012
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
Perhaps it was just a bad dream. Perhaps writer-director Michael Mann didn’t really veer from his crime-film comfort zone after 1981’s terrific Thief (an entrancing amalgam of seventies grit and eighties gloss), only to end up in supernatural phantasmagoriaville with 1983’s much-maligned period horror film The Keep. Perhaps it would have been preferable (especially for that part of us that futilely demands life and its associated arts to move in easily classifiable straight lines) to jump directly to 1986’s Manhunter, the first cinematic swipe at Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter mythos—a luridly antiseptic bit of genius that Chicago Reader reviewer Pat Graham incisively likened to “white noise” and “electronic snow.” (The critic’s memorable “am I recommending this or not?” punchline: “Just try not to nod off…”)
Appropriate, then, that The Keep begins in some tenebrous fugue state between waking and dreaming, between sound (ominous thunderclaps) and image...
Appropriate, then, that The Keep begins in some tenebrous fugue state between waking and dreaming, between sound (ominous thunderclaps) and image...
- 9/9/2011
- by robbiefreeling
- Indiewire
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