There’s an enigmatic quality to the role of Nolan in the current filmmaking landscape.
Movies work by building and releasing tension, a pattern demonstrated more nakedly in the musical than in nearly any other genre.
The San Francisco International Film Festival might be forgiven for a bit of self-love.
For the greatest examples of the human condition, one only needed to really look in two places, one in the least likely place imaginable.
The trailer for Vivere piqued my interest immediately.
Per usual, a considerable amount of this year’s selections are carryovers from Toronto and Park City.
Sunday evening proved that the fest has some cajones underneath all that tie-dye.
Abbas Kiarostami is exhausted, and understandably so.
As long as drugs, sex, rock ‘n’ roll, and war continue to drive the human race, though, there will always be a place for the Doors.
This year’s “Film Comment Selects” program collects 18 features that span the full spectrum of the cine-world stage.
Is there a general consensus in the industry that Mary J. Blige is owed something?
Oscar trends continue to have shorter and shorter shelf lives as the award season calendar continues to pork up.
At least everyone can agree that Britney Spears’s rediscovery of underwear is an encouraging trend that will, we hope, continue into 2007.
Iraq ruled not only the news but movie screens as well in 2006.
The most depressing season of the year officially begins in late November and carries over into the early part of the new year.
Nothing less than a miracle is needed to rouse Ingrid Bergman’s characters out of their spiritual stupor, and Rossellini provides it.
At age 63, McDowell is one of the few living links to a host of great British actors who are now gone.
The received wisdom on Jacques Rivette, for supporters and detractors alike, is that his is a cinema of endurance.
At one time, Phil Hall navigated between the worlds of public relations and film criticism, two professions that could not be more dissimilar.
It was fitting that the final stop on Goldfrapp’s U.S. tour, at New York’s Roseland Ballroom, began with Cerrone’s “Supernature.”
Rosenbaum continues to write long-form pieces during a time when most professional critics are increasingly marginalized.