Hunger, directed by Steve McQueen, and Gomorrah, directed by Matteo Garrone, both at the IFC Center. Hunger and Gomorrah, two films now showing at the IFC Center, offer grim, unsparing views of the human condition–a kind of Platonically perfect "bad vibes" double...
Zack Snyder’s Watchmen is a curious film: a painstaking translation, from comics to cinema, of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s twelve-issue limited series (and later graphic novel) of 1986–87; the latest entry in the overcrowded genre of superhero films; and a monument to geek...
Roberto Bolaño and Natasha Wimmer. 2666. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. 898 pages. With the translation into English and publication of Roberto Bolaño’s final work and masterpiece, the sprawling antinovel 2666, Anglophone readers can now confirm his status as one of the...
Discussions about politics and the media are nothing new, but the 2008 Presidential Election is remarkable for having featured, in its sheer scope and intensity, the awesome power of the new media. From the campaigns to their supporters, from partisans to unaffiliated voters, something...
Frozen River, written and directed by Courtney Hunt If you’re tired of the humectent summer blockbuster season, which this year dripped with ever-more perfect CGI monstrosities and was awash with ever-more soggily portentous superheroic significance, take a trip to Courtney Hunt’s...
