I'm sure they exist, but it's almost unfathomable to imagine a cinephile who does not count themselves as a fan of the work of Martin Scorsese. Out of the group of directors who came into their own in the 1970's, the decade that revolutionized the art of filmmaking, Scorsese is perhaps the most influential of them all (with the possible exception of Steven Spielberg). Scorsese's films, from Taxi … [Read more...]
With all the strange, interesting, and bad press that followed in the wake of Sasha Baron Cohen's Borat film, you're about to get a new look behind the scenes of the production, from the perspective of yet another group duped by the film. While many of the stories that came out the film didn't evoke a great deal of sympathy, the curious bamboozling of the village of Glod in Romania might deliver a … [Read more...]
Sacha Baron Cohen has the kind of comic mind that doesn't come along often. That may be a good or bad thing, it may even jump from one to the other and back in the matter of a few minutes, but he's an amazingly funny guy with a lot of different perspectives on what makes for good comedy. Of course, most of the time you probably want to put quotes around "good," but even for those who might be … [Read more...]
