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Meet Fatih Akin, the Most Exciting German (and Turkish) Director of His Timenew

Akin is the young director whose breakthrough film Head-On was an international hit three years ago.
INDY Week  |  Godfrey Cheshire  |  09-11-2008  |  Profiles & Interviews

The Gritty Indie 'Frozen River' and a Post-Sept. 11 Thriller, 'Traitor'new

Both films feature formidable performances by their leads, Melissa Leo and Don Cheadle, respectively.
INDY Week  |  Godfrey Cheshire  |  08-29-2008  |  Reviews

Jacques Rivette Adapts a Classic of French Realist Fictionnew

The Duchess of Langeais is a work of extraordinarily subtle beauty and concentrated meaning.
INDY Week  |  Godfrey Cheshire  |  06-05-2008  |  Reviews

How to Stop Worrying and Love Lucas, Spielberg and 'Raiders'new

When I reviewed Raiders, I wrote not so much about its contents -- which struck me as aggressively inane -- but about the experience of seeing it at the Village Twin. To me, everything that night was of a piece, all of it depressing evidence of a tripartite decline.
INDY Week  |  Godfrey Cheshire  |  05-22-2008  |  Reviews

Persepolis More Like a Non-Iranian Filmnew

Persepolis is confidently cosmopolitan in its outlook and resonances. Yet it's also an indirect reminder that Iranian culture has been strangely (and, one might add, tragically) bifurcated for going on three decades now.
INDY Week  |  Godfrey Cheshire  |  02-07-2008  |  Reviews

The Year in Filmnew

Into the Wild is the year's best, and a Charlotte-based indie joins the list.
INDY Week  |  Godfrey Cheshire  |  01-03-2008  |  Movies

Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe Face Off -- Sort ofnew

Is it not unavoidably frustrating in a movie when the two main antagonists almost never see each other?
INDY Week  |  Godfrey Cheshire  |  11-01-2007  |  Reviews

The Intricate Puzzles of 'Michael Clayton'new

Tony Gilroy's film may turn out to be the earliest major Oscar candidate out of the gate, but it's also a commendable rarity: a film of genuine artistic ambition that is also extravagantly entertaining.
INDY Week  |  Godfrey Cheshire  |  10-11-2007  |  Reviews

'In the Valley of Elah' Tries to Be a Mystery & an Iraq Filmnew

Unfortunately, Haggis doesn't have the stylistic chops to do "restrained" in the way that, say, Sidney Lumet can. His would-be restraint ends up committing the cardinal sin of being dull, dull, dull.
INDY Week  |  Godfrey Cheshire  |  09-20-2007  |  Reviews

Alone With the Alonenew

Into Great Silence heralds the possibility of cinema as a sacramental art.
INDY Week  |  Godfrey Cheshire  |  05-24-2007  |  Reviews

'Away from Her': Twilight of the Goddessnew

If many arthouse films nowadays seem destined to divide audiences into generational camps, this absorbing Canadian drama has the welcome effect of bridging the age divide in several senses at once.
INDY Week  |  Godfrey Cheshire  |  05-17-2007  |  Reviews

Bright Spot in Dismal Oscar Seasonnew

"Worst. Oscars. Ever." The admirably concise e-mail from a critic friend handily summed up my own reaction to last week's announcement of the Academy Award nominations.
INDY Week  |  Godfrey Cheshire  |  02-02-2007  |  Reviews

Queens and Kingsnew

Ten minutes in to Blossoming, you've not only entered a story but a world of indelible images, rituals, textures, eccentricities.
INDY Week  |  Godfrey Cheshire  |  01-25-2007  |  Reviews

The Dogs of Warnew

Letters From Iwo Jima and The Good German are both turkeys -- though of an interestingly similar sort.
INDY Week  |  Godfrey Cheshire  |  01-21-2007  |  Reviews

Wild Turksnew

The gutter punk romance Head On reinvigorates European cinema.
INDY Week  |  Godfrey Cheshire  |  06-09-2005  |  Reviews

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