Or, how to paint a farce with too much color.
Europeans dine on a delicacy from Africa, where famine, poverty, and AIDS are rampant. Meet the fishy face of globalization.
Tolkien’s Fellowship begins a work of transition—our own.
The Third Reich as a child’s fairy tale.
Silence, sentimentality, and song from Down Under.
Kevin Smith’s cinema profanity.
“I do love the camera,” she says.
Showing at Northwest Film Forum, Fri., May 5– Thurs., May 11. Not rated. 88 minutes.
Dueling awards and dubious numbers.
Ambiguity, ideas, morality—in a war movie?
Awards, analysis, and the future.
Showing at Varsity, Fri., July 14–Thurs., July 20. Not rated. 90 minutes.
BIO-ZOMBIE Runs Fri., Nov. 1-Thurs., Nov. 7, Grand Illusion They’re a pair of slacker thieves with baffling names like Crazy…
An operatic Chinese film falls just short of greatness.
COSMOPOLITAN to the core, 53-year-old Edward Yang, who’s now based in Taipei, is drawn to modern stories set in large…
All the elements of a cowboy classic—except for plot, character, and story.
GENERAL IDI AMIN DADA: SELF-PORTRAIT Criterion Collection, $25.49 AT ONE POINT, he was the world’s deadliest clown. Idi Amin was…
Dance documentary movingly captures ballet greats before their final curtain.
Columbia Tri-Star Home Ent., $28.95
Three decades in the life of an extended Italian family turn out to be six hours very well spent during the next two weeks.
