Between Two Worlds

When The Very Thought of You, directed by Nick Hamm from a screenplay by Peter Morgan, was released in Britain last year, it was called Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence. The American distributors must have thought that sounded somehow too suggestive, so they gave it one of those nondescript American titles, like Lost and…

The absurdly pretentious and over-ambitious winner of this year’s Cannes Festival is at least pretty to look at

Lars von Trier, clowning around in his own inimitable fashion with the End of the World

Shakespeare in Love, which was directed by John Madden from a screenplay co-written by Tom Stoppard, has all the signs of the high Stoppardian style, including lots of puns and Elizabethan English transplanted to unexpected situations, where it takes on new and usually humorous meanings. And not only Elizabethan words either. At one point we…

Sensitive writers rendered dysfunctional by their dysfunctional families — hm, where have we heard something like that before?

A haunting account of an act of terrorism from an age which, in retrospect, seems relatively free of it