Huffing and puffing to resuscitate a long-moribund genre, James Mangold manages to imbue a 50-year-old Western with a semblance of…
Manhattan is not just Woody Allen’s dream movie. Wistful as it is witty, it’s his dream of the movies. Forty-four…
The epitome of New Wave pop art romanticism, the 1965 Pierrot le Fou is as evocative of its epoch as…
No less than Spider-Man 3, Oren Rudavsky’s The Treatment is an urban fairy tale. It’s an Upper West Side story,…
One of the American indies least likely to appear at Sundance, September Dawn recounts the grim tale of the 1857…
Asger Leth’s documentary explores the Port-au-Prince slum Cité Soleil, identified by a U.N. agency as the “most dangerous place on…
Led by a magic flute that not all can hear, avant-pop marches on: Tsai Ming-liang’s I Don’t Want to Sleep…
Bahman Ghobadi, Dogpatch fabulist and dean of Iranian Kurdish cinema, leads another magical mystery tour through his mountainous homeland—populated, per…
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand’s leading experimental filmmaker and international man of mystery, isn’t exactly a master of suspense. Still, the 37-year-old…
“We’re Americans. We go into other countries when we need to. It’s tricky, but it works.” So declares Michael Moore…
Not since Lara Croft has the actress had so apposite an avatar.
The world’s pre-eminent film festival celebrated its 60th birthday party, the opening banquet catered by the world’s hippest—or is that…
The 60th Cannes Film Festival was a generous one—and so was its jury, bestowing the Palme d’Or on the least…
It’s hard to remember, but back in the early 1990s, Hal Hartley was regarded as the hot young American indie…
Jafar Panahi is a paradoxical populist. He makes crowd-pleasing art movies and is a virtuoso director of (non) actors. But…
Two lambs to the slaughter, the Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in 1927 for a crime…
Paul Verhoeven’s new heroine makes a typically nasty burlesque of the Holocaust in Black Book.
The Turkish director of Distant makes like Antonioni.
From Korea’s U.S.-polluted sewers, a box-office monster shall arise.
From 1962, the funny Italian uncle to The Godfather.
