Matter of Life and Death, A (Stairway to Heaven)

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

An affecting exploration into a social problem which can only be made worse by being regarded as a social problem

It would take too long to catalogue all the excellences of Agnieszka Holland’s adaptation of Henry James’s Washington Square, but chief among them must be the performances of the actors in the four principal roles. Albert Finney plays rich Dr. Sloper, Ben Chaplin plays the handsome bounder, Morris Townsend, who comes to court his plain…

. . . And now Lewis Schwarzberg raises the question: does being a patriot require you to be a sentimentalist as well?

A political screed masquerading as a documentary about the crisis in consumer credit

Nenette et Boni by Claire Denis is a rather enjoyable little meditation on the disjunction, in our late 20th century culture, between sex and context, between the act of coupling and its moral and biological consequences. Boni, short for Boniface (Colin Grégoire), a young man of about 19 or 20 who works as a pizza…