The brilliant film “Mr. Turner” examines the great, albeit, peculiar, British Romantic landscape and seascape painter, Joseph Mallord William Turner…
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How do we look when we’re looking at art? That’s one of the intriguing facets of this gorgeous art tour…
No film in the James Cagney filmography best illustrates what can only be called “The Cagney Conundrum” than does the…
It’s amazing, for a film that won the Oscar for Best Picture the year it was released, and was made…
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have made many notable films from “La Promesse” to their Palme d’Or winners “Rosetta” and “L’Enfant,”…
The movie’s title, “Clouds of Sils Maria,” refers to a natural phenomenon found in the Sils Maria municipality of…
Of the six films of Japanese director Nagisa Oshima that I have seen, his 1983 color film “Merry Christmas, Mr….
It’s Fashion Week in New York–when isn’t it?–and the pages of the New York Times feature the…
The award-winning children’s anime film, “A Letter to Momo,” delicately explores the emotional struggles of an eleven year-old girl, Momo…
Sometimes it’s best to ignore the source of an adaptation and let the new work stand on its own….
British director Alan Parker’s 1978 film, “Midnight Express,” based upon a non-fiction book, by William Hayes and William Hoffer,…
“A Five Star Life” is an intelligent, well-acted, subtle film, with a story line that is…
Highlights of the Jewish Film Festival “Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholem Aleichem” “The Green Prince” “Run Boy Run”…
Who hasn’t done time in the ER: with a sliced lip, chest pain, a child with a broken bone or…