Film
Here’s one more wrap-up of the year in film.
Charlie Kaufman crafts worlds where people find love in unlikely places, and lose love so easily you’d think they actually want to be miserable.
In his best screenplays, Graham Greene explored the idea of the protagonist as anti-hero well before it became a popular trope in the 1950s and ’60s.
Are people more desperate or deluded or have my own critical faculties narrowed and deteriorated?
Concussion butts heads with the NFL; Point Break is pointless.
The unimportance of being too earnest.
The Big Short is a deftly sardonic piece of doomsday economic diagnosis that is as entertaining as it is alarming.
The Hateful Eight is Quentin Tarantino’s richly textured love letter to B movies.
The best discussions are of Vertigo, with David Fincher, the most effective directorial voice of all those interviewed, leading the way.
Film Commentary: Blink a Bright Red and Green — “Carol’’’s Holiday Charm
A guide to the symbolic color odyssey that will keep you on your toes if you choose to see Carol more than once (and I’m thinking you will).
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