Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942)

The idea behind this movie is mistaken, I think, but its execution makes it very watchable

The media’s almost universal treatment of Michael Moore as if he had something serious to say tells us a lot about their own fundamental lack of seriousness

Antz directed by Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson begins with unmistakable Woody Allen—i.e. not some animated ant named “Z”—in analysis, feeling neurotic because, as the middle child of 5 million he didn’t get a lot of attention as a child. He tells the doctor that he is intimidated by the ant work-ethic: “Everything for the…

I went out of curiosity to the interesting documentary double billing of Chile, Obstinate Memory and The Battle of Chile Part Two: The Coup d’Etat by Patricio Guzman. The second was the 90-minute central episode extracted from Guzman’s three-part Marxist epic of 1978 and shown first; the first, shown second, was the hour long postscript…

A thoughtful and very watchable film whose performance does not quite match its ambition

A lovely film from the author of Gomorrah that explores, with humor but little hope, the God-shaped hole in the life of our culture