Articles by Ingrid Keenan
Un Chien Andalou
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí
PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005
The opening scene is iconic: a man (director Luis Buñuel) bisects a woman's eye with a straight razor. The following 17 minutes pile on ima...
Good Bye, Lenin!
Wolfgang Becker
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004
After 40-plus years of Cold War despair, the fall of the Communist regimes in Eastern Europe seemed almost fantastical. When the wall came...
Along Came Polly
John Hamburg
PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2004
Reuben Feffer (Ben Stiller) is a risk-averse insurance guy whose bride leaves him on their honeymoon for a freakishly buff French scuba ins...
The Ingmar Bergman Collection
Ingmar Bergman
PUBLISHED May 1, 2004
We all know what we mean by "Bergman-esque": the silence, the intense close-ups, the dread and despair. The five films in this new box-set...
Chasing Liberty
Andy Cadiff
PUBLISHED May 1, 2004
Does every father wish he could send his teenaged daughter on a date with a crew of ultra-protective thugs or is that outdated yet? For U.S...
Broken Wings
Nir Bergman
PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2004
"It could be worse, right?" For the recently widowed Dafna and her four children, this is the thought that keeps them afloat after the sudd...
Emile
Carl Bessai
PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2004
In this moody drama by Carl Bessai, Ian McKellen stars as Emile, a British academic who travels to Victoria, BC to receive an honorary degr...
Hope Springs
Mark Herman
PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2004
This movie really should be funny. And it really isn't. English artist Colin (Colin Firth) learns that his fiancée Vera (Minnie Driver) has...