Philadelphia Story, The

Here’s a good example of what happens when talented and amusing people get together to air their prejudices without bothering about what those who are opposed to them really think

There are two perfect, transcendent moments in the Tale of Autumn, or Conte d’Automne, which is the fourth and perhaps the best of Eric Rohmer’s magisterial series, “Tales of the Four Seasons.” The first of these is when we suddenly realize that the simple story of two women, married Isabelle (Marie Rivière) and her divorced…

An unintentional experiment by the National Endowment for the Arts to show that any time you put war and “art” together you get anti-war propaganda

The controlled narrative of the news media’s view of the situation in Iraq cannot survive this encounter with the videotaped views of ordinary Iraqis

If John Woo thinks, as the publicity material claims, that Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai is “the closest thing to a perfect movie that I have ever seen” I wonder why he does not make movies like it himself? In fact, Le Samourai, made in 1967 but only seen in this country before in the wake…

With the help of a black ex-con, Dad becomes a hip, freaky, fun-loving guy and his wife and kids are overjoyed. Best of all, he gets to keep the Mercedes and the job as a high-priced tax lawyer.