Category: the classics

  • Private Eyes

    Private Eyes

    ‘Claire’s Camera’ is an epigrammatic 69 minutes, yet its short running time isn’t synonymous with sketchiness or lazy economy.

  • Julianne Moore is Sublime in ‘Gloria Bell’

    Julianne Moore is Sublime in ‘Gloria Bell’

    Moore, giving one of the great performances of her great-performance-heavy career, inspires such empathy that there came a point in the movie where I noticed that my facial expressions almost exactly matched the ones she was giving on screen.

  • The Leisurely Darkness of ‘The Beach Bum’

    The Leisurely Darkness of ‘The Beach Bum’

    Considering everything that happens to Moondog, the protagonist of ‘The Beach Bum,’ over the course of a season, we find it surprising that there never comes a point where we find him sitting down, hunched over with his head in his hands, moaning, ‘the world’s out to get me.’