Articles by Kathleen Olmstead
Stalag 17
Billy Wilder
PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006
Although Stalag 17 was one of Billy Wilders most successful films (box-office-wise) it has lost prominence over the years. This is not an...
Possession
Neil LaBute
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
Neil LaBute has taken a Booker award-winning (and perfectly bland) novel, Possession, and produced an even less stellar film. It's the same...
Sunshine State
John Sayles
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
Sunshine State feels like the film John Sayles has been building up to for years. It's like several films in one a British mini-series yo...
The Saddest Music in the World
Guy Maddin
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
The first words that come to mind are, "Hot damn!" My main complaint of previous Maddin films was that he didn’t provide a decoder ri...
Pieces of April
Peter Hedges
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
Time the time it takes to cook a turkey, the time spent with family, the amount of time we have left plays an important role in Pieces...
Trembling Before G-d
Sandi Simcha Dubowski
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
I'm fond of this film because it's a topic my friends and I have argued for years. Why do people want to participate in a community that fu...
Ray Harryhausen Gift Set
PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005
The Ray Harryhausen Gift Set isn't the best example of the animator's work but it does provide a solid base for '50s B-movie style. Each fi...
The Green Butchers
Anders Thomas Jensen
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2005
We've come to expect certain things from films about cannibalism. We have low budget, high-gore zombie movies (Cannibal Ferox), high camp (...