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The Berlin International Film Festival. Porton, Richard Jun 22, 2008 1612
No exit in Texas. Brown, Royal Jun 22, 2008 2036
No Country for Old Men: pro & con reviews of Hollywood's "Best Picture of the Year". Brown, Royal; Sharret, Christopher Jun 22, 2008 683
Filth matters: the moral squalor of Hollywood. Goldberg, Jonah Jun 2, 2008 1386
The Aldous factor. Douthat, Ross May 5, 2008 904
Pregnancy test: the politics of the personal. Editorial Mar 22, 2008 897
The outsider: themes from the work of Daniel Day-Lewis. Hedden, Andrew Mar 22, 2008 4162
Good moments in a tough world: the films of Charles Burnett: dreams, disorder, and hard-won hope are revealed in the universe of a filmmaker showcased on a new two-disc special-edition DVD from Milestone Film & Video. Thompson, Clifford Mar 22, 2008 2376
The Christian resonances of modern epic. Colebatch, Hal G.P. Mar 1, 2008 1975
Hollywood takes on the Iraq war. Editorial Dec 22, 2007 1021
Representing 'goodness': Valerie Krips on the trouble with virtue. Krips, Valerie Oct 1, 2007 1988
Bon Cop, Bad Cop and Canada's two solitudes: what a blockbuster buddy movie says about the great divide in the nation ... and its cinema. Hays, Matthew Sep 22, 2007 2990
Disparities film to be screened at APHA Annual Meeting. Sep 1, 2007 494
Is Michael Moore right about Cuba? Aug 1, 2007 345
Traces of migration and loss in Krzysztof Kleslowski's Three colours trilogy/Spore van migrasie en verlies in Krzysztof Kieslowski se Three colours trilogy (1). Nel, Adele Aug 1, 2007 7787
The drama of teaching and the recent past. McDonald, Neil Jul 1, 2007 2669
Set piece; Rachel Haidu on decor: A Conquest by Marcel Broodthaers. Haidu, Rachel Jun 22, 2007 3883
Stoned on Mars: home and national identity in recent Bulgarian cinema. Trifonova, Temenuga Jun 22, 2007 3745
Representations of gender as constructed, questioned and subverted in Balkan films. Slapsak, Svetlana Jun 22, 2007 2978
Sleep therapy: Robin Wood on Tsai Ming-liang's I Don't Want to Sleep Alone. Wood, Robin May 1, 2007 1675
Summer movie spectacular: mutants and pirates and wizards, oh my! Apr 27, 2007 969
Big screen adventures. Brief article Apr 23, 2007 295
Once Upon a Time in America: Sergio Leone and the construction of myth. Babiak, Peter Mar 22, 2007 3595
"In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni": Centraal Museum, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Lutticken, Sven Mar 1, 2007 1780
Music agent crafts movie of bond between father, son; therapeutic task gets film festival attention. Madler, Mark R. Feb 19, 2007 1172
Film stirs up blood diamonds storm: a new Hollywood blockbuster, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is bringing renewed public attention to the issue of conflict diamonds. Stephen Williams reports. Williams, Stephen Feb 1, 2007 685
Gogol in Seoul Gary Indiana on the films of Bong Joon-ho. Indiana, Gary Jan 1, 2007 4076
British Invasion: 'BORAT' & 'THE QUEEN'. Alleva, Richard Dec 15, 2006 1332
"Fast Food Nation's" message. Doyle, Mona Brief article Dec 1, 2006 147
Divine art. Brief article Dec 1, 2006 73
Climates and other disasters: Robin Wood on the films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Wood, Robin Nov 1, 2006 3107
Michel Gondry: Deitch Projects. Kastner, Jeffrey Nov 1, 2006 564
Forbidden love? Ferber, Lawrence Brief article Oct 24, 2006 281
The return of free love: queer auteur John Cameron Mitchell's new film Shortbus depicts graphic sex, but it's not porn--it's a political manifesto. Kennedy, Sean Cover story Oct 24, 2006 2193
More human than Truman: infamous reassembles the gay love story between the lines of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Cho, Alexander Oct 24, 2006 993
The Cannes Film Festival. Porton, Richard Sep 22, 2006 1703
The Istanbul International Film Festival. Menashe, Louis Sep 22, 2006 1471
A semiotics of Judaism: representations of Judaism and the Jewish experience in Italian cinema, 1992-2004. Picchietti, Virginia Critical essay Sep 22, 2006 9974
Running from stardom: Joseph Fiennes's star is on the rise again, thanks to a role as the real-life lover of author Augusten Burroughs in this fall's Running With Scissors. Rebello, Stephen Sep 12, 2006 1061
Don't put away childish things: Jesus had a good reason for telling his followers to be like the little ones. Camille, Alice Sep 1, 2006 1448
Matias Faldbakken. Sep 1, 2006 914
Absorbed in the action. Fried, Michael; Griffin, Tim Sep 1, 2006 3389
Still lives: James Quandt on the films of Pedro Costa. Quandt, James Sep 1, 2006 3111
Even hindsight isn't 20/20; Reflections on Jonestown: the Life and Death of Peoples Temple. Starr, Susan Sep 1, 2006 1229
Multi Mia: Mia Riverton had a great time producing the acclaimed Asian-American romantic comedy Red Doors--and playing a sexy lesbian celebrity on-screen. Bolonik, Kera Aug 29, 2006 709
Verbatim. Cones, Bryan Brief article Aug 1, 2006 192
Dick heads: Gary Indiana on Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly. Indiana, Gary Jun 22, 2006 1946
"What you see is happening right now." Thermageddon and a search for tomorrow. Miller, Blair Jun 22, 2006 3117
Puzzle Solved: 'The Da Vinci Code'. Alleva, Richard Jun 16, 2006 1007
A harsh indictment of the Bush administration. McManus, John F. Brief article Jun 12, 2006 50
Line in the sky: United 93 presents an incisive parable of citizen heroism in the face of foreign terror--and the federal government's failure to protect us from it. Grigg, William Norman May 29, 2006 1249
Special effect: controversy assures 'Da Vinci Code' will be bigger at the box office. Levine, Michael May 22, 2006 768
Staying afloat: Lajos Koltai's 'Fateless'. Alleva, Richard May 19, 2006 1351
Spin Doctor: 'THANK YOU FOR SMOKING'. Cooper, Rand Richards May 5, 2006 1383
The trouble with V: compelling and affecting in its depiction of life under totalitarianism, V for Vendetta ultimately endorses the lawlessness on which totalitarianism depends. Grigg, William Norman May 1, 2006 1337
Backdoor man: Amy Taubin on Larry Clark and Destricted. Taubin, Amy May 1, 2006 913
The sound of silence: Linda Yablonsky on Laurie Simmons's The Music of Regret. Yablonsky, Linda May 1, 2006 1146
Life on earth: the films of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Wood, Robin Apr 1, 2006 2734
On William D. MacGillivray. Wood, Robin Mar 22, 2006 5305
Chris Marker's Owl's eye view. Sheridan, Sarah Robayo Mar 22, 2006 1423
Reinventing realism: the art and politics of the Dardenne brothers. Bickerton, Emilie Mar 22, 2006 3804
Lost and found: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One and Take 2 1/2. San Filippo, Maria Mar 22, 2006 2105
Marching with nature's best: March of the Penguins is a family-friendly movie that instills a sense of awe at the resilience shown by emperor penguins as they procreate despite mother nature's harshest whims. Jasper, William F. Mar 6, 2006 824
Barry Schwabsky on Daria Martin. Schwabsky, Barry Mar 1, 2006 1280
Lookin' for love in R-rated places. Ulrich, Mariette Column Mar 1, 2006 711
The real American Cowboy: the real men and women of the Old West were truly as legendary as classic Hollywood cinema and traditional Western fiction have led us to believe. Kirkwood, R. Cort Cover Story Feb 20, 2006 2969
Homos on the range: a look at how liberal cultural elites gave "blockbuster" stature to a perverse movie--Brokeback Mountain--and what they hoped to accomplish. Kirkwood, R. Cort Feb 20, 2006 1678
Peter Shalit. Steele, Bruce C. Interview Feb 14, 2006 591
After Brokeback. Kaiser, Charles Feb 14, 2006 540
Mexican standoff: J. Hoberman on Carlos Reygadas's Battle in Heaven. Hoberman, J. Feb 1, 2006 1745
Cameron Jamie: 37th International Theatre Festival of the Venice Biennale. Janus, Elizabeth Feb 1, 2006 546
Hidden in plain sight: Robin Wood on Michael Haneke's Cache. Wood, Robin Jan 1, 2006 2152
Cinematic affects: the art of Runa Islam; Martin Herbert surveys the artist's films, in which coolly hypnotic, oblique narratives--haunted by the afterimages of '60s avant-garde auteurs--straddle the borders between cinema and sculpture, art house and art gallery. Herbert, Martin Jan 1, 2006 2431
A fascinating farmer. Howard, Brian C. Brief Article Jan 1, 2006 193
Federico Fellini and the making of La Dolce Vita: in La Dolce Vita, set amidst the wild nightlife of Rome's Via Veneto, Fellini put characters drawn from his own world of entertainment and journalism in the spotlight. His scandalous film characterized a new sense of liberation that emerged in the Sixties and marked a radical new creative phase in Fellini's career. Kezich, Tullio Dec 22, 2005 5367
George Clooney's new movie about Edward R. Murrow's devastating attacks on Sen. Joseph McCarthy, Good Night, and Good Luck, gets everything right but the truth. Brief Article Nov 7, 2005 200
Good night, good luck, good movie. Townsend, William D. Nov 1, 2005 727
A certain slant of light: James Quandt on the films of Hou Hsiao-hsien. Quandt, James Critical Essay Oct 1, 2005 2923
Philosophy in the bedroom: Wong Kar-wai's 2046. Arthur, Paul Sep 22, 2005 2463
L.A. environmental: Hollywood's Best and Worst "Green" Movies. Chadwick, Benjamin Sep 1, 2005 1356
Sleeper hit 'Habana Blues' featured at French film festival. Echevarria, Vito Jul 1, 2005 472
Notorious. Spring, Lori Jun 22, 2005 677
Seeing Elephant. Tubrett, Dion Jun 22, 2005 6517
The industry of trauma: can films about tragedy politicize audiences? Nayak, Meghana V. Critical Essay Jun 22, 2005 1457
Tom Cruise and the seven dwarves: cinematic postmodernisms in Abre los ojos and Vanilla Sky. Weimer, Christopher Jun 22, 2005 4980
'Never Again,' that time: a recent movie spotlights Rwanda. Daniels, Anthony Apr 11, 2005 1696
Image, affect and memory: relations of looking in Tracey Moffatt's beDevil! Olubas, Brigitta Mar 22, 2005 4056
Questions of genre in black popular music. Brackett, David Viewpoint essay Mar 22, 2005 8021
A.I. or, the Agony of Steven Spielberg. Beard, William Critical Essay Mar 22, 2005 7889
The centre cannot hold: betrayals in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz. Busch, Justin E.A. Critical Essay Mar 22, 2005 10722
This is not a game: Alan J. Pakula's Rollover. Hughes, Jack Critical Essay Mar 22, 2005 6394
"But it's good": finding value in Twentynine Palms. Wilcox, Jason Critical Essay Mar 22, 2005 9291
Dramatizing issues that historians don't address: an interview with Oliver Stone. Crowdus, Gary Interview Mar 22, 2005 10047
From Stella to Iphigenia: the woman-centered films of Michael Cacoyannis. Georgakas, Dan Critical Essay Mar 22, 2005 4158
Reading a "closet screenplay": Hollywood, James Baldwin's Malcolms and the threat of historical irrelevance. Norman, Brian Mar 22, 2005 9336
Echoes of Africa in To Sleep With Anger and Eve's Bayou. Ellison, Mary Mar 22, 2005 10908
Corporations and free trade. Lawler, Louise Brief Article Sep 22, 2004 309
Fashioning the body [as] politic in Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust. Gourdine, Angeletta K.M. Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 8191
It's a wonderful lie. Goldberg, Jonah Jul 26, 2004 519
2001: A Space Odyssey was Stanley Kubrick's hyperformalist rendition of an Arthur Clarke science-fiction novel that became a light show for potheads. Brief Article Jul 26, 2004 98

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