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Nathan Kosub

A Few Great Pumpkins III
By Michael Koresky, Nathan Kosub, Chris Wisniewski | October 31, 2008
A Few Great Pumpkins

An American Werewolf in London, Night Gallery: “The Cemetery,” Pumpkinhead, Meet Me in St. Louis, Salem’s Lot, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “Hush,“ Black Sabbath: “A Drop of Water”

The Romance of Astrée and Céladon
By Nathan Kosub | September 3, 2008

Why go back to the seventeenth century to tell a tale of love? Why lament the Forez plain when there is yet such natural beauty in the world as cinematographer Diane Baratier finds here?

Three Times
By Nathan Kosub | August 19, 2008

The mid-century setting, the pop songs, the rain that falls as steam rises at a noodle stand in Huwei: we’ve seen this before, but it’s possible to talk about the segment’s failures without comparing them to Wong Kar-wai.

Drugstore Cowboy
By Nathan Kosub | November 11, 2007

Van Sant’s first hit was Drugstore Cowboy. It is a movie about drug culture, about Portland and the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s, and about the reliable marketability of pretty young actors playing outlaws.

A Few Great Pumpkins II
By Michael Koresky, Nathan Kosub, Jeff Reichert, Chris Wisniewski | October 31, 2007
A Few Great Pumpkins

Inferno, Cujo, The Devil Rides Out, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Paperhouse, Trouble Every Day, The Others, Halloween

La Chinoise
By Nathan Kosub | October 9, 2007

Léaud, with his easy exasperations, reacts. He asserts his nervousness instead of hiding it; his hands indicate an ongoing, unguarded surprise with his own disruptive emotions. Truffaut increasingly scaled the performances back, but Godard, like Luc Moullet with A Girl Is a Gun, egged Léaud on.

Under the Volcano
By Nathan Kosub | September 25, 2007

“The name of this land is hell. It is not Mexico, of course, but in the heart.” Thus author Malcolm Lowry cleared the air in life for the inevitable posthumous adaptation of his 1947 novel Under the Volcano.

Days of Being Wild
By Nathan Kosub | July 17, 2007

The first few minutes of Days of Being Wild (credits for executive producers, cold opening, title card) are my favorite few minutes in a movie made in my lifetime.

Evan Almighty
By Nathan Kosub | June 23, 2007

If every administration gets the movie it deserves, Evan Almighty is the most appropriate flop for the long decline of this worst of White Houses.

Big Trouble in Little China
By Nathan Kosub | April 16, 2007

The video store cult section buried John Carpenter. His hour-and-a-half revelations were always modest, and he got the movie he wanted every time. No talk of director’s cuts, no commentary except about paid bills.

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