There is a fine line between being a film buff and an obsessive-compulsive cinephile, and the five subjects of the documentary Cinemania crossed over to the dark side long ago.
Directors Angela Christlieb and Stephen Kijak probe every crevice of these New Yorkers’ lives, following them into screenings, their apartments, usually dreadfully maintained; taxi cabs and [...]
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Before Wolfgang Peterson became known as the director of Hollywood action films, such as In the Line of Fire, Air Force One and The Perfect Storm, he had several decades worth of material behind him in his native Germany. Believe it or not, after earning critical success with Das Boot, he made his crossover film [...]
When you go to see a Tim Burton film, you expect something magical.
You encounter a wild-haired boy with scissors for hands, a dog that comes back from the dead, a headless horseman, a planet inhabited by apes, a ghost you can conjure by repeating his name three times, a skeleton who wants to be Santa [...]
D.H. Lawrence is probably best know for his controversial book Lady Chatterly’s Lover, the 1928 story about an married woman from the upper-class who finds sexual fulfillment when she engages in an affair with her game keeper. In fact, at least five versions of this once shocking tale have been made into film. Several of [...]