Film Reviews
Film Review: Joe, reviewed by critic Jean Oppenheimer
Film Review: The Grand Budapest Hotel, reviewed by critic Jean Oppenheimer
Film Review: Omar, reviewed by critic Jean Oppenheimer
Film Review: Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, reviewed by critic Jean OppenheimerFilm Review: Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, reviewed by critic Jean Oppenheimer
An air of poetry hangs over Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, a film that echoes both Days of Heavens and Bonnie and Clyde in its elegiac visual beauty and its mythological feel for rural America. Although set in the early 1970s — in Texas, like the other two pictures (though all three were shot predominantly in other locations) — the film has the same Depression-era look and atmosphere as its predecessors — and the same eye for plain-spoken, inchoate characters whose restless spirits push them to…
Conversation with Ziad Doueiri, writer/director of The Attack, with film critic Jean Oppenheimer
The Attack opens on June 28. It is a rich psychological study of one man’s loss of delicate political and social equilibrium, set against the backdrop of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.