IFC News: "I'd like to hear it, HAL. Sing it for me."

Monday, May 21, 2007 | 7:26 PM

"I'm not sentimental that way." This week at IFC News:

The podcast is fending off some technical issues and will be up tomorrow.

How do you react to critics who have turned their back on you in the years since "Henry Fool"?

I just let it lie. Sometimes you're popular, sometimes you're not. It's not going to change the nature of the work I do. Those [earlier] movies seem to mean a lot to people of a certain age at that time. And yeah, they don't want you to change. They want The Who to be the old Who. [laughs.] "Please don't change." But you grow older, you have different experiences of life, and you want to address different things. You can't do that by making movies about young boys and girls being in love all the time.

Dennis Lim's aforementioned first two Cannes dispatches are here and here.

Michael Atkinson writes about "Regular Lovers" and "Sansho the Bailiff" on DVD. On "Lovers":

The movie is in fact more of an impressionistic personal meditation on the place and time than an outright historical film. But the feeling of the era, the cataclysmic, romantic, liberating and finally tragically disillusioned emotional thrust of resistance, coupled with the electric sense of being 19, sexually alive, responsibility free and ready to dope up and drop out — all of it seeps out of this neglected three-hour epic like fragrance from a valley of lilacs.

And Christopher Bonet has the round-up of what's new in theaters.