Simona Schneider

Drowning in Lust on the Dank Canals of Scotland
Fri, Apr 16, 2004, 12:00am

In the opening minutes of Young Adam, a pale dead girl is pulled out of the ocean onto a dock, leaving the ghostly light of the gray British sky in her wake.

My Big Fat Bollywood Wedding
Fri, Oct 3, 2003, 12:00am

Bollywood/Hollywood, a film by Deepa Mehta, aims at making Bollywood more easily accessible by fusing the most formulaic films of both Eastern and Western cinema.

An Ideal Reader Searches for a Forgotten Author
Fri, Feb 14, 2003, 12:00am

High-fiving your classmates when they correctly establish the theme of a Hemingway short story? Nerdy. Hoisting the professor up on the class' shoulders and carrying him off into the sunset? Unlikely. Finding an instant bond over an obscure children's book? It happens all the time.

Exposing the Macabre in the Mundane
Fri, Sep 13, 2002, 12:00am

Justine (Jennifer Aniston) lives in a small town in Texas where the only realistic dream is to die and go to heaven. In her town, everyone knows everyone else, and no one wants to be misunderstood.

A Bicycle Not Built for Two
Fri, Feb 1, 2002, 12:00am

Everything seems to be against Guei (Cui Lin) and Jian (Li Bin). The two hold in common the sole desire of owning a bicycle in Beijing Bicycle, a picture of frustration that unremittingly asks, "Is life fair?" Especially when all one wants is a bicycle.

Out of the Past?
Wed, Oct 24, 2001, 12:00am

Photographer Neal Savin’s directorial debut Focus is one of
the rare movies that make one aware, as if through x-ray glasses,
of the concealed, sinister structure of our sponge-painted world.
The film’s power lies predominantly in the plot of Arthur Miller’s

Cocaine Explosion
Fri, Apr 6, 2001, 12:00am

The extravagance, glamour, betrayal and heartache that accompany drug use and trafficking have been portrayed so many times that it is difficult to expect anything new from the latest addition to the drug genre, Blow.

Fine Young Cannibal
Fri, Mar 30, 2001, 12:00am

In the tradition of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale provokes questions about fundamental human character and our own societal values and social institutions.