It is far too early in the year to tell, but I would not be surprised if, for the second year in a row, two Soderbergh films make my best-of...
Netflix Instant Picks (5/24/13-5/30/13)
Netflix's changed API now make tracking expiring soon titles much more difficult, so this week's titles are reduced to new picks and...
Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003)
The following is my May entry for Blindspots. Elephant ’s Steadicam tracks last so long and move so languidly that they frequently curve bac...
Redacted (Brian De Palma, 2007)
Spectrum Culture closes out its De Palma retrospective with my piece on Redacted , a film I continue to find fascinating in theory but slopp...
Augustine (Alice Winocour, 2013)
Alice Winocour's feature debut, Augustine , displays a skill with direction beyond its makers experience. If anything, there is too mu...
Pietà (Kim Ki-duk, 2013)
I have yet to see another Kim Ki-duk film, but judging by his 18th feature, Pietà , I have no desire to catch up with any of the other 17. A...
Book Review: A Crack-Up at the Race Riots, by Harmony Korine
On the back of his latest (and greatest) film, Harmony Korine has reissued of his sui generis collection of fragments, A Crack-Up at the Rac...
Kingpin (The Farrelly Brothers, 1996)
This week, The Vulgar Cinema is focusing on the work of the Farrelly brothers, some of the finest comic filmmakers of the last 20 years. I...