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

A highly watchable but somewhat dubious lesson in how not to be a victim — or at least not a victim of fate

The Pillow Book by Peter Greenaway is a typical Greenaway blend of the bizarre, the disgusting and the boring. Especially the boring. You wouldn’t think it, would you? That a man could concentrate so exclusively on weird sexual fetishes (in this case, a woman’s desire to have her body written on — and then to…

An amusing fairy tale that sometimes flirts with over-seriousness

Yet more corruption in the LAPD makes you wonder if there are criminals in Los Angeles who aren’t wearing a badge

Roman Polanski makes a political movie for the people — unfortunately, there are a lot of them, particularly in Europe — whose politics are just like his

When the Cat’s Away (not a very adequate translation of the French Chacun Cherche Son Chat or “Everyone’s looking for his cat”), by Cédric Klapisch, is a charmingly old-fashioned kind of film, in spite of its depiction of very contemporary social realities. It offers a marvelously undimmed romanticism about Paris, and about the glamour of…