Searchers, The

Conceptual art comes to the movies, bringing with it a newish sort of excuse for watching pornography

This well-made French film by Cédric Kahn re-examines the relationship between civilization and savagery. Again.

An unforgettable series of interviews with the first men — and perhaps the last — ever to set foot on another world

All the way through The Winter Guest, which was directed and co-written by the fine British actor Alan Rickman, I was bothered by the fact that the action (I use the term loosely) was supposed to be taking place on “the coldest day in living memory” in East Fife, Scotland. Anyone who has ever been…

An epic tale of an outcast Vietnamese boy’s quest to find his American father

The 12 year-old eponymous hero of Stephen Daldry’s Billy Elliot, played by Jamie Bell, is made to say more than once that “just ‘cause I like ballet it doesn’t mean I’m a poof.” Sounds reasonable to me. But the film itself has a different story to tell. Both the introduction of Billy’s cross-dressing schoolboy friend,…