Curent Project: Krzysztof Kieslowski

Some things just have to be said. First, President Donald Trump spoke for more than 100 minutes at the State of the Union on Tuesday. He mentioned Iran for three minutes. Most of that was boasting about how he successfully knocked out their nuclear program last June. He talked about

One of the staples of “Mad Men,” the AMC drama about Madison Avenue advertising in the 1960s, was the season finale where the fortunes of the company seemed to be heading in a dangerous direction, so all the key players get together to create a new firm in the dark

We’re still on A-Di in this section. It surprises me a bit, taking the movie scene by scene, just how much of the middle portion of the film concerns him — this is three of the last four segments. It starts with another in-car conversation. NJ is giving A-Di a

The movie is roughly halfway through at this point, so it’s a good time to take a step back and look at the film’s structure. “Yi Yi” begins with a wedding and ends with a funeral. Here at the halfway point, we get a baby shower. Compared to

Edward Yang shows off his gift for scene-to-scene transitions in this segment of the film, which also happens to be about major life transitions for three of the main characters in the film. We begin with Yang-Yang finally putting his water balloon plan into place. We see him walking quickly

Min-Min’s brother A-Di seems like the comic relief in “Yi Yi,” a character who doesn’t fully belong in the family, and arguably doesn’t fully belong in the film as well. I don’t mean that as a criticism, he’s more like a dried red pepper floating