Your Avatar: The journalist and opinion columnist Charles Lane has been getting a lot of smack from various progressive political blogs and bloggers for his criticism of some rhetorical flourishes made
Today only: Jean-Luc Godard’s Masculin féminin, a playfully biting picture of the 1960s political and apolitical youth, is playing for free in the UK and Ireland! "Not since DW Griffith was knocking
"Jennifer Jones, 90, an actress who won an Academy Award for playing a saint in The Song of Bernadette and became a popular sinner in Hollywood melodramas including Duel in the Sun and Love is a Many
Today only: François Truffaut's classic screwball dramedy Jules and Jim is playing for free in the UK and Ireland! "Truffaut was not yet thirty when he made this film, and decades later it's still
"All the same, there was something going on which remains true, even when the words and pictures are mostly made up." In 1990, playwright Tom Stoppard directed a movie version of his acclaimed play
"Ricky, the latest film by François Ozon to receive release in the United States, is so chock full of tonal and generic shifts that it makes for a handy little guide to its French director's scattershot
The difference between the two obsessive quests in The Searchers (1956) and French Connection II (1975) is one of quantity: Popeye Doyle’s one goal, revenging himself on the hedonistic narcotics
A busier Tuesday than usual. Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island and Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer are among the first round of seven titles lined up for the Competition at the Berlin International
What is it about the very scrupulous DVD collector, or, maybe what we might call the very scrupulous DVD librarian? What is it that drives him or her—but let's face it, more often than not it's a him—to
The fourth roundup of year-end and decade-end lists and awards was updated through Sunday morning (previously: 1, 2, 3). Now, a new week begins, with various critics groups circling in on their award
1. Manny Farber, his goal: "to get himself to disappear. To get the object in question to shimmer with its own unique sense of awe." 2. An improving exercise: Watch a favorite film on DVD at 1/8th
If only Robert Altman knew what his satire of football and war in MASH would bring us in the post-modern age...