Bobby and Peter Farrelly (There’s Something About Mary, Kingpin) are responsible for some of the most appallingly tasteless – and…
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The best film released in 1998 was made in 1973. Jean Eustache’s The Mother and the Whore is a bracing,…
The Imaginary Portraits of George Condo George Condo: Paintings and Drawings George Condo is a man possessed by visions. A…
Frank is a London yuppie, roughly 30, who lives next door to a crackhouse. He’s kept the place for years,…
Woody Allen has a lot to answer for. His two great romantic comedies – Annie Hall and Manhattan – were…
Cameron Crowe is a frustrating filmmaker. Though possessed of enormous gifts, he’s yet to make a film that’s as good…
Penelope Spheeris changed my life. A suburban doofus who only knew punk rock from records, I took a date to…
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Detroit Rock City is the latest entry in a fine film genre with a distinguished pedigree: cheesy movies about rock…
Ken Burns’ new documentary series Jazz completes the trilogy that began with The Civil War and continued with Baseball. It…
Andre Techine’s Alice and Martin is Greek tragedy in modern dress. Rather than restage Sophocles as turgid, angst-ridden melodrama (as…
Let’s say you’re 15 years old and you want to annoy your parents. But how? Dad used to stagedive at…