soul food movies

I approach this one with dread and fascination. DOGVILLE was very tough going, but ended up among my top three favourite films ever, alongsi...

This is a musical, and there's always someone to catch me. You get the impression Lars is a messed up guy, and that just maybe he's ...

In May I launched a summer movie-watching project, 34 Films I DO Want To See Before I Die . Now, I didn't see nearly as many films as I...

In the wake of TIFF, Roger Ebert sounds the alarm about distribution for independent film - bad news for CREATION , for example - and points...

For those of you who don't see the comments when you view the blog, N.W. Douglas brought the unhappy news that SERAPHINE has been and go...

THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO (1998, USA, Whit Stillman) I'm going to turn over a new leaf in Spain. I'm going to turn over several new le...

From the New Yorker review of JULIE AND JULIA. "The movie is memorable, of course, for Streep’s performance. Like a tall ship at full ...

NEXT TARANTINO MOVIE AN HOMAGE TO BELOVED TARANTINO MOVIES OF DIRECTOR'S YOUTH September 7, 2009 | The Onion | Issue 45-37 MADRID—While ...

BARCELONA (1994, USA, Whit Stillman) What is this? Some strange Glenn Miller-based religious ceremony? No. Presbyterian. Whit Stillman's...

METROPOLITAN (1990, USA, Whit Stillman) Of course there’s a God! We all basically know there is. I know no such thing. Of course you do!...

Fall approaches, and so does the Vancouver International Film Festival . Jason Morehead's TIFF picks at Filmwell have me wondering what ...

My compadre over at Filmwell posted his Top Ten picks for TIFF, a couple with real Soul Food potential. Here's one... CREATION (Jon Ami...

My compadre over at Filmwell posted his Top Ten picks for TIFF, a couple with real Soul Food potential. Here's another... CLEANFLIX (An...

Fantastic news! After a string of four straight masterpieces - and I don't use the word loosely - from the Dardenne brothers ( LA PROMES...

NIGHTMARE ALLEY From the novel by William Lindsay Gresham, the first husband of Joy Davidman Gresham, who later married C.S. Lewis. Pacific ...

CAT PEOPLE (1942, USA, Jacques Tourneur, Val Lewton / DeWitt Bodeen screenplay) I've tried to make you realize all these stories that wo...

CAT PEOPLE (1982, USA, Paul Schrader, screenplay w/ Alan Ormsby, DeWitt Bodeen story) You can see why this God-haunted, Total-Depravity-Of-M...

I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943, USA, Jacques Tourneur, Val Lewton / Curt Siodmak / Ardel Wray screenplay, Inez Wallace article, loosely adapte...

STARS IN MY CROWN (1950, USA, Jacques Tourneur, Margaret Fitts screenplay, Joe David Brown novel and adaptation) There's no writing ...