Jamoca Chocolate Kahlua Cake As Michael Winterbottom’s exhilarating, infuriating The Road to Guantanamo comes to an end, one of its…
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What’s most disarming about Jean-Luc Godard’s Notre Musique is its simplicity. After the puzzling opacity of his 1990s films and…
In early 1943, a group of women began to gather outside a detention center on the Rosenstrasse in Berlin. They…
In prison awaiting trial for the murder of a retarded boy, an articulate, too-sensitive-for-this-world teenager (Ryan Gosling) renames his social…
In 1949, Georges Franju directed his first film, a short documentary entitled Blood of the Beasts. A rigorous, unflinching study…
Olivier Assayas’ demonlover is this decade’s Diva. Sumptuous but empty, it’s a film so chic you should see it right…
The Magdalene laundries were Catholic sweat shops posing as homes for wayward Irish girls, where residents were expected to renounce…
"I don’t know whether this is a comedy or a tragedy
" mutters Jean-Claude Brialy in A Woman is a Woman,…
Cremaster 3 is the wordless, extravagant, three hour long culmination of Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle. The five film series runs…
Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York opens with an enormous closeup of a pair of eyes. It’s a clammy, intrusive…
Why remake Charade? Stanley Donen’s 1963 romantic thriller was pure star vehicle, its labyrinthine plot a thin excuse for Audrey…