I think it best to begin by explaining what Down by Law isn’t: a prison escape movie, a study of the places and cultures of Louisiana, a buddy movie, or a cryptic celebration of beatnik jazz. It’s important to clarify that, because it seems like it should be all of those things at once: full […]

The Signal, late of Sundance 2007, began life with a real honey of a concept: three hungry young filmmakers pooling their talents to make a cinematic Exquisite Corpse, using a common group of actors to make an interconnected trilogy of short films that would go God only knows where. In the event, that’s not exactly […]