Notes on Movies: The Bourne Trilogy
The Bourne Identity Doug Liman, who helms the first installment, may be the trilogy’s best director. But The Bourne Identity doesn’t live up to its filmmaker. The script is consistently [...]
May 2015
Moi, un Noir
★★★★ 4/4 “Life is sacks,” says young Nigerien immigrant Oumarou Ganda in Jean Rouch’s most controversial scene from his 1958 ethnofiction film Moi, un noir. Oumarou — who is under [...]
Nebraska
★★★½ 3.5/4 The subject of winning and losing big has been a mainstay in American cinema since at least the 1920s. But I imagine even the most jaded viewer, after taking note of the direction [...]
Film The Madman 