Searchers, The

Does the old hippie dream of making a revolution by self-indulgence still survive? Apparently so — at least in the movies

A charming, unpretentious little movie from Mexico that gradually reveals to us hidden depths and a surprising emotional power

Some people are fiddling with one of the greatest classics of the American popular culture without, apparently, knowing what they’ve got their hands on

A respectful period romance which, however, doesn’t give us as much of the period as it does of the romance

It is not a particularly original or even, necessarily, interesting observation that marriage, like other symbiotic relationships, is often a matter of complementary pathologies. Or what would be pathologies if they were found in an individual. Benoit Jacquot (A Single Girl, The Disenchanted) has given us a portrait of such a marriage—and not much hope…

Devil’s Island, directed by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson and written by Einar Karason is set in the 1950s in a former American army base in Iceland called Camp Thule. Into the army’s wartime Quonset huts there have now moved a collection of poor Icelanders who can afford no better place to live and who are looked…