Heaven Can Wait

In the Realm of the Senses is a Japanese film made twenty years ago by Nagisa Oshima. At the time it was considered shocking even by the relaxed standards of the day and it was seized by U.S. Customs Agents. What innocent times they seem! Nowadays we aren’t so much more depraved than people were…

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

James Cameron”s latest record-breaker is a triumph of the new, video-game arts but a grievous defeat for the Western mimetic tradition

Time and again Hollywood, wearing its artist’s beret, attempts to satirize the entertainment business, of which Hollywood itself is so huge a part. Time and time and again it fails. I wonder why that is? By coincidence, we have the two latest attempts opening in consecutive weeks. But where 15 Minutes is a typical failure…

A moving portrayal of a little-known passage of recent history which even manages to make us forget why it was, until now, little known

Jim Jarmusch finds his alter ego in Bill Murray and his cinematic vision in the burn-out’s 1000 yard stare