Oct 23, 2009
Out of Frame: Crude
With the endless parade of legal dramas, small claims reality shows, and an entire network devoted solely to the wheels of justice, it’s understandable if you’ve hit the point of fatigue for any sort of filmed courtroom experience. Improbably, director Joe Berlinger actually brings something new to the table in Crude, which looks at a long-running, multi-billion dollar class action suit involving 30,000 residents of the Ecuadorian Amazon on one side, and oil giant…
Oct 22, 2009
Popcorn & Candy: You Only Hurt the One You Love
DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Charlotte Gainsbourg takes a reflective breather between bouts of bloody mayhem in Von Trier’s Antichrist. Antichrist Lars Von Trier must really hate his therapist. That’s the only definite message I can glean for sure from Antichrist, based on what he puts the movie’s resident psychologist, played by Willem Dafoe, through. The doctor and his wife, played…