The movies' gift to you this Christmas Day: Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law, Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin as well as Heath Ledger's final performance, with backup from Johnny Depp, Colin
In the new Voice, J Hoberman reviews the film he's placed in the #3 slot on his top ten of 2009 list (and for more on the Voice poll and many, many other lists and awards, see the updated tracker
"The Museum of Modern Art's retrospective of the French screenwriter, director, and actor Jacques Tati (born Jacques Tatischeff, 1907–1982) features newly struck, gloriously restored 35mm prints of
Previous roundups of year-end and decade-end lists and awards: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. "This was the year that the art world repeatedly checked its pulse to see if it was still alive. And guess what? It
"With Avatar James Cameron has turned one man's dream of the movies into a trippy joy ride about the end of life - our moviegoing life included - as we know it," declares Manohla Dargis in the New
"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
"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
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
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
"In a stroke of fortune for Bay Area movie lovers, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF) presents a second 2009 Winter Event this Saturday, December 12 at the Castro Theater," writes Michael
We won't be beating our own drum every single day, but what can you do? It's an eventful week at The Auteurs. Today sees the opening of a panel discussion of Clive Holden's Trains of Winnipeg: 14 Film
Let's start this one with a few things going on here at The Auteurs. Hong Sang-soo's Night and Day is currently playing at Facets in Chicago and will be available in the US on demand via IFC Festival