All 22 articles by Joshua Rothkopf

  • 01 Oct 03

  • Culture

    Undiscovered Country

    The typical complaint goes something like this: Why open a huge, gleaming multiplex if three of those screens... MORE »

  • 10 Sep 03

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    9/11 at the Movies

    Since Spike Lee’s 25th Hour, I have been expressing a mixture of hope and doubt concerning the... MORE »

  • 15 Jul 03

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    Smash and Grab

    Ang Lee’s The Hulk is the kind of rambling, overstuffed psychodrama that only a true artist could... MORE »

  • 28 Feb 03

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    Into the Woods

    When people complain about the movies being too fake or showy or otherwise lacking in depth, I have... MORE »

  • 03 Feb 03

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    Headphone Mind

    Morvern Callar gets at you through your eardrums. Its gifted young director, Lynne Ramsay, has described her second... MORE »

  • 17 Jan 03

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    Truth and Consequences

    Spike Lee’s latest—his 20th feature including TV work—is at long last the raging masterpiece many... MORE »

  • 08 Nov 02

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    As the World Yearns

    When a movie gets it all impeccably, heartbreakingly right, as does Todd Haynes’ stunning Far from Heaven, some... MORE »

  • 25 Oct 02

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    The Big Picture

    So it looks like the movies made it. Made it through the “death of irony” we heard so... MORE »

  • 11 Oct 02

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    Arms and the Cameraman

    Readers of these pages need no introduction to Michael Moore, nor will they require any acrobatics on my... MORE »

  • 02 Aug 02

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    I See Green People

    Signs is about Earth’s infestation by claw-fingered aliens, but its scenes of a rural Pennsylvanian household stunned... MORE »

  • 21 Jun 02

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    Love Is a Battlefield

    With its deep bows to Monument Valley and other distant frontiers, its choked-off military men struggling with codes... MORE »

  • 24 May 02

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    Dive in, the Pool’s Empty

    Ah, to be young, wild and Californian: Dogtown and Z-Boys, an affectionate, free-spirited history of the reinvention of... MORE »

  • 15 Mar 02

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    Twice Upon a Time

    Tsai Ming-liang, the Taiwanese director of a decade’s worth of urban hilarity—all of it bone-dry and... MORE »

  • 19 Feb 02

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    Technical Foul

    Life, for all its mysteries and riches, was somehow found lacking. Here, then, is a remake of Rollerball,... MORE »

  • 18 Jan 02

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    Heroes and Survivors

    Consider the list of unlucky opponents to face the torrent of words and blows that was Cassius Clay,... MORE »

  • 07 Dec 01

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    Royals, Lords, Jesters

    High drama, long-winded sagas, maybe even a little violence: Soon many of us will be returning home to... MORE »

  • 22 Oct 01

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    HEAD FOR THE HILLS

    In dreams, as the song goes, David Lynch walks and talks with you. He’s by now our... MORE »

  • 03 Sep 01

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    Monkey See, Monkey Shoot

    Planet of the Apes Directed by Tim Burton First, a confession: I've got this thing for primates. Put... MORE »

  • 28 May 01

  • Culture

    Partial Recall

    Memento Written and directed by Christopher Nolan Returning to the scene of your crime is, generally speaking, not ... MORE »