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The 5 minute feature film, volume 3: Virus + a bonus review of Virus
Here is my 5 minute interpretation of John Bruno’s Virus, a sci-fi thriller from 1999 starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Sutherland, and William Baldwin. As a movie, about a mysterious electrical life-force that animates killer robots on an abandoned Russian research vessel in the South Pacific, Virus is somehow simultaneously frantic and low energy. It’s […]
The Anti-Auteur, Michael Winterbottom
As versatile as Steven Soderbergh and just as willing to take chances, if not more so, Michael Winterbottom has made some of the worst movies of their era (The Claim, Wonderland), and some of the most interesting and entertaining as well (24 Hour Party People, Welcome To Sarajevo). Since 1995, he has made 17 feature […]
I Want You
Michael Winterbottom‘s I Want You is about a mute 14 year old in England who, with his curiously high end equipment despite the poverty he lives in, records couples making out, having sex, and other embarrassing and plot important situations. Rachel Weisz is the woman he falls in love with, she was also in love […]