Articles by James Keast

Bad News Bears

Richard Linklater

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

While nostalgic remakes have become the groan-worthy entries in the summer movie line-up, there was at least hope for an update of this 197...

The Frighteners

Peter Jackson

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

Two things become clear with this DVD issue of the original special edition laserdisc director's cut of The Frighteners, the action/horror/...

The Dukes of Hazzard

Jay Chandrasekhar

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

The legacy of small screen to feature film projects is pathetic; those based on nostalgic looks at long-gone TV shows are worse yet. And th...

24: Season Four

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

If any high-concept show was going to run out of steam after a couple of kicks at the "day in the life" can, it should have been 24. Especi...

Grizzly Man

Werner Herzog

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

German filmmaker Werner Herzog made one of the most remarkable documentaries of 2005 with Grizzly Man — and he did it without shooting most...

The New World

Terrence Malick

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

Given that The New World is only the fifth film that artful director Terrence Malick has released since 1969 (among them Badlands and The T...

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The Work of Directors Mark Romanek, Anton Corbijn, Jonathan Glazer and Stéphane Sednaoui

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

The second series of Palm Pictures' Work of Directors series focuses on four new video helmers, and when it comes to big money, career-defi...

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Akira Kurosawa

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

In 1985, legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa completed what he saw as the culmination of his life's work: Shakespeare's King Lear tr...