Articles by James Keast

Singing Detective Keith Gordon 2

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

There's a sense, watching The Singing Detective, that you need one of two things: a road map, or a familiarity with the film's source mater...

Brown Bunny Vincent Gallo 3

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

To call the latest effort from ego-as-artiste Vincent Gallo a bunch of pretentious baloney is an insult to that delicious sandwich meat. Th...

Dogville Lars Von Trier

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Lars Von Trier is best known in film circles for having devised a half-joking manifesto called Dogme 95; in it, he outlined "rules" that wo...

Casa De Los Babys John Sayles 2

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

John Sayles has always straddled the line between life in Hollywood (as an in-demand script doctor, his work has included uncredited rewrit...

P.T. Anderson

P.T. Anderson

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Director Paul Thomas Anderson scales down the ambitions of his early features (Boogie Nights, Magnolia) with this seemingly straightforward...

Ben Folds Has Time Alone

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

When Ben Folds announced the dissolution of his band the Five last year, it seemed the natural end after six years, and three albums that i...

Spookey Ruben

He Made His Bed...

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Nineteen ninety-six was a great year for Spookey Ruben. His acclaimed debut, Modes of Transportation Vol. 1, was receiving critical acclaim...

Planet of the Apes

Tim Burton

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Pearl Harbor turned out to be dead in the water. A.I. proved more Kubrick huh? than Spielberg box office gold. With only Shrek's somewhat j...