I saw an example of the transgressive cinema called the New French Extremity last Wednesday, 10 November: Enter the Void (2009), directed and co-written by Argentinian-born Gaspar Noé (writer-director of the infamous 2002 movie Irréversible). Since Enter the Void only played one week at a metro-Detroit arthouse theatre, I think it's safe to say ( Read more... )

Thanks to Netflix, I recently caught up on a couple of previously unwatched Paul Schrader movies; so let's see what Your Correspondent thought of 'em, shall we?

( Little Girl Lost / Little Boy Blue )

Every now and then a movie comes along that exceeds the plaudits heaped upon it by the critics; I saw such a one last night.


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I've finally been getting some mileage out of my Netflix subscription after letting discs sit unwatched for far too long. Here's what I saw over the weekend:

( Here be some ugly Americans )

I saw the latest example of transgressive cinema to generate buzz over here, Dutch writer-director Tom Six's The Human Centipede (First Sequence), last Friday night (7 May) at a midnight showing in a suburban Detroit art-house movie theatre, one week after its NYC premiere ( Read more... )

Last Friday, 10 July, I saw a movie that Manohla Dargis' review in The New York Times (in the Friday, 1 May edition) got me all hot and bothered for: Michael Keaton's directorial debut, The Merry Gentleman.

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Finally saw My Bloody Valentine 3D at a close-to-midnight show last night (Saturday, 21 February); this is of course the remake of the 1981 Canadian original that I've yet to see, though the issue of Fangoria that had a detailed review and copious gory pictures was one of my prized possessions of "journalistic excellence" as a teenager. (This same ( Read more... )

I saw Oliver Stone's latest movie, W. -- a surprisingly balanced account, for a Stone film, of our current president's life and career from his fraternity hazing in 1966 up to the early summer of 2004 -- at a midnight showing the day that it opened (Friday, 17 October), in an auditorium that might've been as much as one-third full. (To be fair, ( Read more... )

Finally saw Pleasantville, the 1998 comedy-fantasy of writer-director Gary Ross (Seabiscuit) that helped put Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon on the map. (That's them in the foreground, below.)


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I saw the Coen Brothers' latest movie, Burn After Reading (which opened on Friday, 12 September) this past Friday (19 September) at a midnight showing. There were maybe 7 or 8 other people besides me in the theatre, although, to be fair, the showing immediately preceding it appeared to be filled to near capacity ( Read more... )