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2005 Stories by Matthew Wilder

• Uneven Steven

  published December 21, 2005

  Spielberg's weighty take on vengeance is a tad lopsided. More >>

• Southern Discomfort

  published November 23, 2005

  'The Real World' is no place for an artist like William Eggleston. More >>

• America's Next Flopped Model

  published November 16, 2005

  Mary Gaitskill's novel examines what comes after the ugly business of being beautiful. More >>

• The World is Not Enough

  published November 16, 2005

  Robert Bresson found the ineffable in the ordinary. More >>

• Good Night, and Good Luck Dodging the Sniper Fire

  published October 26, 2005

  Marcel Ophüls on the heroic idealists and cynical mollycoddles of wartime journalism. More >>

• Crow Triumphs Over Phair in Soccer-Mom Death Match

  published October 26, 2005

  How I survived a long weekend with Liz and Sheryl. More >>

• Raging Rick

  published October 12, 2005

  Novelist Rick Moody Feels His Pain. Yours? Not So Much. More >>

• Delusions of Grandeur

  published September 28, 2005

  David Cronenberg's 'History' repeats itself. More >>

• The Encyclopedist of the Grind House: Tarantino on Film

  published September 28, 2005

  "All right now, if you're a person like me you really enjoy seeing child actors get traumatized, all right, I mean stuff that they're... More >>

• Our Summer of Disaster

  published September 7, 2005

  Hollywood's trilogy of terror frightened the blockbuster into art. More >>

• Laughing All the Way to the Grave

  published September 7, 2005

  Once again, Luis Buñuel's time is now. More >>

• I Know What You Bought Last Summer

  published September 7, 2005

  Bret Easton Ellis castigates and/or wallows in consumer Babylon. More >>

• Et Tu, U.S.A.?

  published September 7, 2005

  HBO's 'Rome' is a clever mirror of modern class warfare. More >>

• Kids Demand More Gore on Television

  published August 24, 2005

  Al Gore's Current TV takes an earnest poke at news and culture. More >>

• Various Artists: Hearing Is Believing: The Jack Nitzsche Story 1962-1979

  published August 17, 2005

  various artists Hearing Is Believing: The Jack Nitzsche Story 1962-1979 Ace Records  The... More >>

• In TV Land, You're Better Off Red

  published July 20, 2005

  Boob tube news swings hard to the right. More >>

• Who Needs the Drama?

  published June 29, 2005

  TV's dark comedies get their day in the sun. More >>

• Justice!

  published June 29, 2005

  Ten studio blockbusters that busted. More >>

• Heroes and Villains

  published June 29, 2005

  Five examples of debased Hollywood, five beacons of hope. More >>

• That was a Summer Movie?

  published June 29, 2005

  A quintet of Hollywood anomalies from blockbuster season. More >>

• Boys in the Corner

  published June 22, 2005

  Jonathan Safran Foer, Wes Anderson, Conor Oberst, and the new male infantilism. More >>

• Life of Johnson

  published June 15, 2005

  It wasn't fun bringing up the rump of the avant-garde. B.S. Johnson felt compelled to do it anyway. More >>

• Gilbert Sorrentino: Lunar Follies

  published May 25, 2005

  Gilbert Sorrentino Lunar Follies Coffee House Press  Big props go out to Gilbert... More >>

• Dig If You Will The Picture

  published May 11, 2005

  Filmmaker Agnès Varda reads a lot into her work. More >>

• Vengeance is His

  published May 4, 2005

  Park Chanwook's 'Oldboy' reinvents Jacobean drama for the 21st century. More >>