Articles by Mark Carpenter

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  Young People Fucking

  Martin Gero

  PUBLISHED Nov 20, 2008

  From the joke-y shock value of the title on down, Young People Fucking is a rare and salutary contemporary example of English-Canadian movi...

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  The Executioner's Song

  Lawrence Schiller

  PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2008

  A quick glance at Lawrence Schiller’s filmography on IMDB yields a career devoted to movies-of-the-week on true-life crime subjects such as...

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  In Bruges

  Martin McDonagh

  PUBLISHED Jul 24, 2008

  The trailer for In Bruges, with its Guy Ritchie hard sell, gave a somewhat distorted picture of the movie. Certainly, the film has its shar...

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  The Walker

  Paul Schrader

  PUBLISHED Jun 18, 2008

  This latest film by writer/director/critic Paul Schrader is also apparently the last in a series of portraits of marginal loners that have...

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  Lady Chatterley

  Pascale Ferran

  PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2008

  This new adaptation of Lady Chatterley’s Lover (or more precisely, D.H. Lawrence’s lesser-known second draft) is strikingly unusual in many...

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  The Aura

  Fabian Bielinsky

  PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2007

  The Aura is the kind of heist picture Antonioni might have made, though that doesn’t necessarily convey what a unique, haunting experience...

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  Y Tu Mamá También

  Alfonso Cuarón

  PUBLISHED Aug 15, 2007

  Y Tu Mamá También (2001) illustrates better than almost any film of recent years the continuing relevance of the French new wave, its energ...

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  Days of Glory

  Rachid Bouchareb

  PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2007

  Days of Glory is a more-than-worthy addition to the recent canon of World War II movies but with a crucial difference, namely its highlight...