Jan 07, 2010
Popcorn & Candy: Through the Looking Glass
DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus The sad final chapter of the career of Heath Ledger comes to a close with the opening of his incomplete performance in Terry Gilliam’s colorful, carnival-esque fantasy. Gilliam had completed most of the location shooting for the film when Ledger died of an accidental toxic interaction of prescription drugs in January…
Nov 21, 2007
Out of Frame: I’m Not There
Just who does Bob Dylan think he is? There must be a truth, a real life story way down underneath the layers of the biography that Dylan has created, but where that truth lies is probably only known to Mr. Zimmerman himself. So how does one approach making a film about the life of a man who has made a career out of self-mythologizing and asking us to please pay no attention to the man…