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24 Frames
Iranian master filmmaker plays with the almost-moving image.
"...of Cherry, Certified Copy) is the experimental endeavor 24 Frames, which had been underway for three years prior to..."

Feb. 23, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Frames from the 10th annual Austin Film Festival

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature

Glen Hansard's One-Night Stand
Just Once with the Frames' Glen Hansard.
"...to The Swell Season, a recent collaboration between the Frames’ Glen Hansard and Czech pianist Marketa Irglova. The two..."

May 18, 2007 Music Post by Austin Powell

They Shall Not Grow Old
Peter Jackson's extraordinary World War I documentary finds humanity in a hellish war
"...task of restoring the original but highly degraded, herky-jerky, 14-frames-per-second footage. Paired with interviews with surviving British soldiers recorded..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lambert & Stamp
Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp were two would-be filmmakers who wound up managing the Who
"...To Cooper’s credit, Lambert & Stamp frames its story around the titular partnership of these two..."

May 15, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson's film is a marvelous spectacle: spry, sly, and rich with microdetailed production design and tickling tributes to cinematic forebearers.
"...The breakneck intro pinwheels through four time frames and three era-specific aspect ratios to get us to..."

March 14, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Greedy Lying Bastards
The greedy lying bastards are those responsible for destroying our planet's climate, and this documentary is naming names.
"...personal accountability. Rosebraugh, by contrast, resorts to name-calling and frames global warming as an us-vs.-them affair rather than grappling..."

March 8, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Dark Skies
Aliens mess with a suburban family's peace of mind in this unsettling, slow-burn thriller.
"...floor, all the family photos removed from their picture frames. Surely the family’s two children must be acting out..."

March 1, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Darling Companion
Diane Keaton leads a wonderful cast in this so-so story about a lost dog and its unmoored people.
"...and is never seen again until the film’s final frames. The search for the dog consumes the rest of..."

May 18, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

W.E.
Madonna helms this movie about the scandalous marriage of King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson.
"...The film splits (and occasionally shares) frames between two women divided by decades but united in..."

March 23, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2012: Animation
Be ready for your office Oscar pool when it rolls around later this month.
"...brush with a ramblin'-minded chicken, Grant Orchard's short film frames a single encounter in three different eras. The hat-tipping..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Win Win
Paul Giamatti stars in this dark comedy from the director of The Station Agent and The Visitor.
"...Giamatti, but there's no mistaking that slump. Writer/director McCarthy frames him from behind, as Giamatti's half-hearted hero jogs along..."

April 8, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Secret of Kells
This animated Irish stunner is visually complex and colorful and was a contender this year for the best animated film Oscar.
"...replicates much of the book’s ornate look, filling its frames with decorative filigrees and tantalizing shapes and colors. The..."

May 7, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
We're still wild about Harry, even though this new adventure prefers to flush pink with its lovesick teens than forward-thrust toward the mammoth battle of good vs. evil.
"...is, after all, a world at war. The opening frames of The Half-Blood Prince further the series’ urgency and..."

July 17, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Righteous Kill
There's nothing righteous about this tired and tiresome good cop/bad cop NYPD procedural.
"...and other annoyances – to screenwriter Russell Gerwirtz, who frames the story with De Niro's not-so-young Detective Turk (get..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Flight of the Red Balloon
Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-hsien directs this contemporary homage to the classic international short, "The Red Balloon."
"...meets his own red balloon in the film’s opening frames. Unlike Lamorisse’s child lead, Simon can’t coax the balloon..."

June 27, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Standard Operating Procedure
The great documentary filmmaker Errol Morris delves into the notorious photographs taken at Abu Ghraib to discover the "truths" they contain and whatever culpabilities they might reveal.
"...ascertained from those pictures (both from what’s inside the frames and from what’s cropped out from the sides), there’s..."

June 6, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead
Every generation gets the George A. Romero socio-political zombie opus they deserve. We must be living right, because this new film cuts right to the heart.
"...at an orders-of-magnitude rate far higher than old-school 24 frames per second, thanks to the near-instantaneous digital-media saturation that..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

This Is England
Set in Thatcherite England, this semi-autobiographical story tells of a descent from mischievous schoolboy to junior skinhead.
"...the social realism of Ken Loach, this ballsy drama freeze-frames bleak Thatcherite Yorkshire and exposes its racist underbelly. Writer/director..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Once
This delicate Irish import, which stars the frontman of the Frames, is an insightful and endearing reimagining of a familiar genre: the musical.
"...Hansard (frontman of the successful Irish rock band the Frames) and the Czech musician Irglová, the music weaves in..."

June 1, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

November
November, starring Courteney Cox, is a dense, dark head-trip of a movie that seems like the bastard offspring of Memento and Mullholland Dr.
"...same grim event repeated from various viewpoints and time frames, will strike some viewers as a pointless exercise in..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Undertow
Cross-pollinate the arthouse film with B-movie backwoods gothic, and you get something like Undertow’s peculiar fusion of high and low culture.
"...the Hunter, Deliverance, and the giddy Seventies aesthetic of freeze-frames and swish pans.) Green’s latest effort begins breathlessly as..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Amélie
Why not get happy? Why not celebrate love, and little twists of fate, and a sepia-in-Technicolor portrait of Paris? Amélie's heart is in the right place – squarely on its sleeve. And what better place for it?
"...with faces that articulate way beyond words, and he frames those faces beautifully, every shot filled to bursting with..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

3000 Miles to Graceland
"...tricks, often simultaneously. Stylistic excesses such as rear-projection, freeze frames, stuttering edits, and rampant CG image manipulation may have..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

X
"...to the bewildering in the space of a few frames. That never stopped me from appreciating Katsuhiro Otomo's legendary..."

April 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Jarmusch's film is a tone poem about a contemporary hitman nicknamed Ghost Dog (Whitaker), who is steeped in the code of the ancient Japanese samurai.
"...embrace. My advice is to not sweat the missing frames and just go with the flow...."

March 24, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Book of Life
"...cry from the director's usual offerings. From its opening frames, in which we are privy to the arrival of..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

EDtv
"...we were led to expect. Still, Howard fills the frames with a number of outright hilarious touches, chief among..."

March 26, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Urban Legend
"...is lingered over for more than six or seven frames, leaving the viewer to puzzle over just how all..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Breaking Up
"...to keep things from becoming too static -- freeze frames, Hi-8 videography, and bracketing asides to the audience all..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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