The Secret Life of Bees
The faithfulness of this screen adaptation of the popular novel ultimately ends up being both this film’s strength and weakness.
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Five Reasons to Be Scared, Get Prepared, and Watch FLOW
As the world worries endlessly about oil supplies, there’s another resource we should be caring much more about: clean water.
Penelope Cruz Coming to State Street
Actress to be honored by the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on January 31, 2009, for outstanding performance of the year.
Religulous
Maher’s documentary attempts to discover why so many people maintain faith in religions. Skeptics of organized religion will probably find it highly entertaining, but fair and balanced it is not.
Appaloosa
In the film acting game, a rare breed of artist both embodies and seems to embrace the ideal of actor-as-chameleon, taking radically shifting roles as a basic artistic challenge.
Reflections on Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World
When the triumvirate of legendary adventurers Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Shackleton, and Roald Amundsen initiated and, 20 years later in 1917, ended the so-called “Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration,” the last corner of our globe was checked off the undiscovered list, and those hoping to grow up to be explorers were immediately out of luck.
Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist
In the 1960s, American studios discovered young actors with a vengeance.
Eagle Eye
It’s almost charming that screenwriters believe so strongly in the omniscience and omnipotence of our country’s National Security technology.
Telluride Mountainfilm Fest Comes to Santa Barbara
Showcase of independent, environmentally minded, and exploratory films at UCSB on October 8.
Blindness
Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, and Gael Garc-a Bernal star in a film written by Don McKellar, based on the novel by Jose Saramago, and directed by Fernando Meirelles.