Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  Patti Smith: Dream of Life

  Steven Sebring

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2008

  Depending on your point of view, this portrait of the proto-punk pioneer will be moving, annoying or both at once. I’m of the latter catego...

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  Tell No One

  Guillaume Canet

  PUBLISHED Sep 25, 2008

  Critics have been falling all over themselves praising this French adaptation of a Harlan Coben novel. I don’t get it. I somehow suspect th...

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  Nuit de Chien

  Werner Schroeter

  PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2008

  Werner Schroeter is one of the German new wave’s prophets without honour. He was too confrontationally weird to take his place alongside Fa...

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  24 City

  Jia Zhangke

  PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2008

  Jia Zhangke is often hailed as one of the world’s greatest directors, but he’s topped even his best in this devastating depiction of change...

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  Les Plages d'Agnès

  Agnes Varda

  PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2008

  Agnes Varda is one of the lesser-known of the front-rank French new wavers; she’s marginalized for being a woman but is as important as any...

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  35 Rhums

  Claire Denis

  PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2008

  In a sense, 35 Rhums is a film that’s been made many times: it’s an urban slice of life involving a family with divided loyalties. But neve...

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  Tokyo Sonata

  Kivoshi Kurosawa

  PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2008

  Kiyoshi Kurosawa abandons his genre roots for this bizarre drama, which is not entirely satisfactory but is never less than strange and aff...

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  Of Time and the City

  Terence Davies

  PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2008

  No man on earth is as pissed off as Terence Davies. Moments into this dirge-like docu-essay, he’s railing against his Liverpool Catholic up...