In Which We Serve (1942)

A girl who pretends to be deaf and a real bad dad don’t end up adding very much of interest to a routine high school melodrama

An imperfect attempt to merge Irish blarney with heroism but worth seeing for the funny dialogue

Agnès Jaoui’s terrrific new movie, Look at Me, begins in a taxicab as the passenger (Marilou Berry), attempts to get the surly driver (Jean-Pierre Lazzerini) to turn down the radio so that she can hear what someone is saying to her on her mobile phone. When her father (Jean-Pierre Bacri) gets into the cab, he…

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The movies can’t help themselves: they chase the chimera of the “real man” within the great man as great men themselves once chased military glory

M by Fritz Lang, first made in 1931, has now been reissued in a new and refurbished print and is a film which movie buffs all ought to rush out to see. The use of the camera and the visual imagery and composition in this story of what we should nowadays call a serial killer,…