John Gianvito proves once again that in the cinema simplicity begets superlative richness. His 2007 documentary, the non-monumental Profit Motives and the Whispering Wind, chronologically tracks a history
The rest of it may be a novelization in action, but The Dark Knight has at least one image, one shot for the ages. Heck, it's so good it is even in the trailer, but here's a description anyway: Heath
Above: Michelle Morgan (center left) leads a motley group of film students during a zombie outbreak. Yet another very good American movie that vanished from theaters in the blink of an eye but will
People around New York City should take note of the new policy being followed by the Apollo Theatre (Forty-second Street, west of Broadway); and people through the country should take note of the way this
I haven't seen any movies of Japanese director Kinoshita Keisuke until Film Forum screened his 1961 film, the brutally ironically titled Immortal Love, in their Tetsuya Nakadai series. Best known in the
Above: The "mad detective," played by Lau Chin-wa, and in the typically warped side of the frame, rookie cop Andy On. After so many stoical, staunchly confident films from Johnnie To, it's always refreshing
Above: Jacques Nolot (left). Except for a terrible moment, waking up early in the morning retching, popping pills, pounding coffee, unable to write and very unhappy, the solitary life of 60-year old
Wonderful Town, the promising first film by Aditya Assarat, has a great amount of outer spirit, though what it truly lacks is an expressive inner life. Under the clear influence of Tsai Ming-Liang and
I hadn't known that Claire Simon had only made documentaries before making On Fire (2006), but it was quite clear even while watching the film. Simon and her photographer Pascale Granel shoot their scenes
By way of getting to the film, it seems safe to say that the influence of American B-movie maverick Jacques Tourneur may now be dormant in the U.S. but it is alive and kicking in Europe. First Pedro Costa
Whatever else it has, M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening does have its small moments of genius, like all cinema, like any art form that allows, purposefully or inadvertently, reality to creep in. Here
Above: Simply, Takamine Hideko. Although programmed in Film Forum's retrospective on the work of Japanese actor Nakadai Tatsuya, Nakadai barely appears in Untamed (1957), but you won't hear any complaints