Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors is at its best when asking sensitive questions about individual scenes and moments in Williams’s plays.
Will somebody around here please call rewrite?
Terriers recalls an earlier tradition of crime story.
This episode was recorded a scant two weeks ago, way back when the Claire Denis retro was winding down at IFC Center.
In Hitchcock’s peerless ’50s and ’60s work, the storytelling and visual style are so intertwined as to be indistinguishable.
Watching Somewhere and then Tiny Furniture, it was very clear to me which daughter of privilege had made the better film.
David Duchovny orchestrates Neil LaBute’s new play like a virtuoso.
The standout track from Nicki Minaj’s debut, Pink Friday, is a duel for the ages.
Is Darren Aronofsky’s relative nebulousness a reflection of the quality of his films?
With that buildup you are probably thinking I am going to dump on Unstoppable. Guess again.
Ideology and action become hypnotic bedfellows in 13 Assassins.
These film will make you want to sort through the wreckage, the purposeful from the happy accidental.
Adam Mills (a.k.a. A Skillz) is taking over the U.K. one house party at a time.
Superficial qualities aside, the movies are entirely the same, even line for line in many cases.
Maybe Xavier Dolan’s sophomore effort Heartbeats hit me at exactly the right time in life.
By the end of his career, Yasujirô Ozu had developed a singular style and a set of themes and stories that were wholly his own.
John Sayles’s human mosaics have always sparked hope for the salvation of American independent film.
Outrage always juxtaposes the unsettling action with a beautifully crisp formalism that makes the film increasingly disturbing.
True love sweeps into a person’s life like a volatile weather system, bringing with it an exhilarating sense of hope and possibility.
I discovered Haynes’s work in those golden years when I was precociously overenrolled, swaggeringly social, and getting laid all the time.