Inspired by the recent viewing of I Vitelloni (Italian slang for “the slackers”), and by the recent DVD release of Richard Linklater’s second feature, Dazed and Confused, I decided it was high time I viewed his first feature, Slacker (1991), a rambling stream of consciousness strung together by various characters throughout Linklater’s beloved Austin, Texas. [...]
Entries from June 2006
Slacker
June 20th, 2006 · No Comments
I Vitelloni
June 15th, 2006 · No Comments
“Vitelloni” is Italian for “slacker,” and with I Vitelloni (1953) director Federico Fellini explores idle youth embodied by a group of young men in a provincial town, characters Fellini seems to know extremely well. There can be no surprise, then, that the companion documentary on the Criterion DVD suggests that the young director and his [...]
Tags: Director · Ensemble · Foreign Language
Rent
June 12th, 2006 · No Comments
Please shoot me with 525,600 bullets. How do you measure just how unbelievably bad a movie can be? Sorry, all you fans of the musical out there (and apparently you are legion). I never had any interest. And yet, I thought, through the benevolent power of cinematic adaptation, that mystical force that can transform any [...]
The Son (Le Fils)
June 4th, 2006 · No Comments
Jean-Piere and Luc Dardennes won the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival with L’Enfant, a film I missed during its cinematic release a few months back despite great interest (there’s a long list in that category). My anticipation is heightened further after seeing the previous entry from these Belgian brothers: The Son, which [...]
Tags: Director · Foreign Language
Here are this morning’s Oscar-nominated films, alphabetically. The nominees for foreign language film and documentary feature are compiled at the end of the list. (Short format nominees are listed in a 
