Tag: The Tree of Life

• Boyhood

  With respect to the late, great Roger Ebert, I’m taking the name of his memoir and biographical documentary and giving it instead to Richard Linklater’s new epic novel of a film, for it is Life Itself. Boyhood chronicles the young life of Mason (Ellar Coltrane), who at the film’s beginning is a six-year-old on his back, gazing up…

  Jul 24, 2014

  # Boyhood, film, movies, review, Richard Linklater, Roger Ebert, Terrence Malick, The Brothers Karamozov, The Dissolve, The Tree of Life

• Favorite Films of 2011

  I saw a number of fine films in 2011. Here, I talk about the great ones and what I thank them for. Beginners, for Christopher Plummer’s exuberance as a recently-out elderly gay man; for Ewan McGregor’s hopeful melancholia as his perpetual bachelor son, and for this exchange between them: “HAL: Well, let’s say that since…

  Jan 8, 2012

  # Attack the Block, Beginners, best of, film, lists, Marcy May Martha Marlene, Meek’s Cutoff, Midnight in Paris, movies, review, The Artist, The Muppets, The Tree of Life, Win Win, X:Men: First Class