Film, the measure of all things
These are expanded Chicago Reader capsules written for a 2003 collection edited by Steven Jay Schneider. I contributed 72 of these in all; here are the fourth dozen, in alphabetical order. - J.R. Taste of Cherry A middle-aged man who's contemplating suicide drives around the hilly, dusty outskirts of Tehran trying to find someone who will bury him if he succeeds and retrieve him if he fails.
I always shoot on the dangerous line between showing too much and not showing enough. I try to work as if I were on a tightrope with a precipice at either side. [...] One day I said 'Cinema is the art of showing nothing.'
a biweekly feature in which two critics from Indiewire's Editor's note: Critical Consensus is Criticwire network discuss new releases with Indiewire's chief film critic, Eric Kohn.