Interesting leading men and women dominate this unusual dispatch, one that gathers films that have almost nothing in common on paper, itself a testament to the variety of styles one can find at a festival
I left the 82nd Biennale of film gratefully exhausted. And to be honest, my gratitude and my exhaustion were of almost equal measure. When I was in my twenties, seeing three or four or even
In 1975, Indian cinema released one of its greatest films, Ramesh Sippy’s “Sholay.” For this young grade-schooler, watching it with my parents in Chicago’s Arie Crown theater, it was among the most captivating movie experiences
The new editor-in-chief of the Toledo Truth Teller is up against it. He is in charge of a Midwestern newspaper that once employed hundreds of reporters, broke important stories, and had their own printing presses
One of my earliest memories of watching something on-screen was seeing reruns of the Canadian children’s television series “The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon” on television throughout the day. In it, Graham Greene plays Mr.
I grew up with Wolfgang Petersen’s films. I saw them in theaters; they were always on TV. The fabled original cut of “Das Boot” seemed to be the holy grail of VHS collectors for a
★★ Richard Osman’s “The Thursday Murder Club” screams – or, rather, ahems – Sunday night on the BBC. It’s so obvious that a character in the erroneous, Netflix-funded, Chris Columbus movie that has actually been
The IFC Center, a five-screen art house cinema in New York’s West Village, is celebrating its 20th anniversary by showing one film from each year of its existence. The selection process was elaborate. The lineup
Ask 100 fans to name their favorite football movie, and you’ll probably get at least 30 different responses, from comedy-dramas such as “The Longest Yard” (both Burt Reynolds and Adam Sandler versions), “Semi-Tough” (1977), “Varsity
Can the Coen Brothers just kiss and make-up already? Look, I get they wanna do their own things. Joel Coen wants to make one-for-one adaptations of Shakespeare classics, and Ethan Coen wants to make movies