Articles by Daniel C. Richardson

Film

Class dismissed

Feb 08, 2003 reviewed by Daniel C. Richardson

From its opening sequence, The Emperor's Club, set in an eastern prep school for boys in the early 1970s, is behind the cinematic eight ball, and it knows it. That eight ball is the tremendously successful 1989 film Dead Poets Society, starring Robin Williams as the gadfly teacher who awakens in his students a thirst for learning and for a poetic experience of the world.

Film

Quick takes

Mar 13, 2002 reviewed by Mark Oppenheimer

Based on John Bayley's two memoirs about his marriage to novelist Iris Murdoch, Iris is in almost all respects expertly done. But the movie, directed by Richard Eyre, from a screenplay by Eyre and Bayley, is so saturated with details from Bayley's books that the story can't breathe. It's more collage than narrative.

Film

Homecoming

Jan 30, 2002 by Daniel C. Richardson

Director Wes Anderson's vision in his latest and (so far) greatest film, The Royal Tenenbaums, is so singular that it is difficult to isolate its individual elements.

Film

Idea-dropping

Nov 21, 2001 by Daniel C. Richardson

Most of Richard Linklater's previous films, such as Dazed and Confused, Slacker and Before Sunrise, have enjoyed great success by holding up the mirror to 20-somethings' intermingling of curiosity and apathy. Judging by the almost universally positive response he's received for his latest film, Waking Life, the formula is anything but tired.

Film

On the run

Nov 03, 1999 by Daniel C. Richardson

Endurance (1999), directed by Leslie Woodhead
Run Lola Run (1998), directed by Tom Tykwer