Double Indemnity

The eighth in the series which has become an unprecedented achievement of the documentarian’s art

John Frankenheimer’s new movie, Reindeer Games, for which Ehren Kruger (Arlington Road) wrote the screenplay, is in some ways an admirably old-fashioned sort of picture. Or so I am inclined to think of any movie whose soul is its plot, as it generally is in the movies of the greatest directors from Hitchcock to Rohmer….

Shooting Fish by Stefan Schwartz stars Dan Futterman and Stuart Townsend as Dylan and Jez (short for Jeremiah), an American and an Englishman who team up to run various scams in the interests, they say, of some orphans, namely themselves. If this strikes you as a jolly jape, you may be as much stuck in…

Almost everyone can enjoy a really dumb movie once in a while, but it would seem to be a minimum requirement that it at least be funny.

A film about monks whose own stillness and spaciousness reflects the immensities they spend their lives contemplating

A parable or fairy tale of social renewal from the master cinematic chronicler of the Urban Haute Bourgeoisie