Articles by James Luscombe
Caché
Michael Haneke
PUBLISHED Apr 16, 2007
Georges and Anne are your classic Paris bourgeois couple. As played by Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche, they're the kind of wealthy, de...
Un Couple Parfait
Nobuhiro Suwa
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
Japanese director Nobuhiro Suwa has a very patient, observational style. He dealt with the slow dissolution of a relationship in his last f...
Three Times
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
Taking place at key moments in Taiwan's history, Three Times tells three love stories that are all fairly typical of director Hou Hsiao-Hsi...
Simone
Andrew Niccol
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
The premise of Simone seems quite fresh, even though, if you really think about it, Singin' in the Rain had more or less the same setup. Al...
Capturing the Friedmans
Andrew Jarecki
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
At first glance, the Friedmans looked like a normal, happy, well-adjusted middleclass family from Great Neck, Long Island. Arnold, the nebb...
Elephant
Gus Van Sant
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
Elephant, the new film by Gus Van Sant, is spare and austere, full of long tracking shots of the mundane comings and goings of a series of...
A Problem with Fear
Gary Burns
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
Emily Hampshire’s performance in A Problem with Fear is a stunner — as funny, cartoon-ish and wholly original as Mira Sorvino&#...
Napoleon Dynamite
Jared Hess
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
Napoleon Dynamite is more than a nerd he's the literal embodiment of the term; he's the eternal nerd. The jocks at his Preston, Idaho sch...