Malcolm Wyer
Malcolm Wyer--in the name of literary theory--aims to push poetry to the brink of extinction.
A Mountain Where Less is More
By Malcolm WyerAn early scene in Treeless Mountain, the austere and elegant second feature by Korean-born director So Yong Kim, depicts six-year-old Jin nervously waiting at the dinner table after her worried mother answers a knock at the door.
Inept, Righteous, and Extremely Prolific
By Malcolm WyerAtom Egoyan’s ambitious eleventh feature Adoration plays like a retrospective of the director’s three decades of film work.
Too Much Moore
By Malcolm WyerMichael Moore’s new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, epitomizes all for which Moore is already notorious. In a sweeping indictment of the free-market capitalist system, Moore turns a hugely complex and exciting argument into a simple little lesson of Anne Coulter-level common sense.
BAD MOVIE, SILLY LIEUTENANT
By Malcolm WyerIn the press notes for his new film, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, director Werner Herzog dismisses comparisons to Abel Ferrara’s original Bad Lieutenant.
Meta-Documentary of a Meta-Documentary
By Malcolm WyerDirector Alexander Olch chose an unlikely subject for his first feature film: another documentary filmmaker, one with two hundred plus hours of footage about himself. Actually, Olch kind of fell into the job.
