The 12th annual Roger Ebert's Film Festival was held April 21 - 25.  Here are reviews of the films there.

     "Pink Floyd the Wall" is infused with songs of great potency and resonance.  This feature length music video of sorts stands as a distinguished work of art that conjures feelings of dread, regret, exhilaration, and frustration.  Stretches of the Film are dank and disturbing.  Images of youth, the classroom, and a... Read More

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     Here are some notes on three interesting films.

     "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus" is an incendiary tableaux of fascinating imagery.  It is both an inquiry into, and a meditation on, the nature of the divide between life and death, reality and fantasy, dream or waking life.

     Terry Gilliam's ornate, phantasmagoric picture is seemingly cleaved in two.  It's as if a 70-minute Film has been stretched... Read More

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     Here are notes that I took while watching some excellent films.

     "American Psycho" is Mary Harron's electrifyingly brilliant adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel about a psychotic, sociopathic serial killer.  The movie's humor is as dry as the martinis that the characters drink during the movie.  The Film is full of people with nothing to lose.  None more so than Patrick Bateman.  Devoid of emotion, they puf... Read More

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     Thank you for reading and I hope the following lists give you a good sense of my cinematic taste.  These are works of art that entertain, fascinate, and move.  Many of them are masterpieces that I discovered through reading Gene Siskel, Roger Ebert, Film Comment, and the New York Times.  Siskel & Ebert's Top 10 lists and other Film critics helped to inform me.  To quote Peter Travers of Rolling Stone, "I have an enthusiasm a... Read More

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     You cannot alter your fate.  You may rise to meet it if you choose.

     --  village elder to Prince Ashitaka

     Hayao Miyazaki's "Princess Mononoke" is a meditation on nature, life and death, the beauty of the world, and the consequences of pollution and encroaching civilization.  This enveloping Japanese anime from the master Miyazaki is essentially a meditation on "the tangible and the intangibl... Read More

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