Features
Friday, August 19 2011
The 100 Essential Directors Part 6: Ernst Lubitsch to Vincente Minnelli
Today runs the gamut. Hollywood to indie art house, female perspective to male, screwball comedy to chamber drama. The odyssey from Ernst Lubitsch to Vincente Minnelli will provide illumination on how film's first special effects were used, how two brothers presciently preceded reality TV in the Hamptons, and why some directors prefer to work about once a decade on average...
Reviews
Friday, March 9 2012
Where the Lines of Performance and Psychological Realism Blur: 'Vanya on 42nd Street'
This film is as memorable and emotional a screen version of Chekhov’s masterpiece as one could ever hope to witness.
Thursday, July 14 2011
Frolicking Amidst a Fractured Post-War Culture: 'Zazie dans le Métro'
Long before Ferris Bueller took his day off, a foul-mouthed ten-year-old girl spent a weekend shaking up Paris...
Friday, July 10 2009
My Dinner with Andre
A grand, intimate philosophical dissection of love, art, creative freedom and self-importance.
Friday, August 22 2008
The Fire Within (Le Feu Follet)
We ought to thank Louis Malle for authoring an intelligent film that aptly deals with a delicate and controversial topic.
Thursday, October 3 2002
Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)
Elastic yet precise, Malle's film has the vitality and vividness of a Renoir -- it breathes.
