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Muna Zaki accomplishes great success despite negative criticism. Brief article Jul 15, 2009 184
The Toronto International Film Festival. Porton, Richard Dec 22, 2008 1721
The Istanbul International Film Festival. Nochimson, Martha P. Sep 22, 2008 1566
The Cannes International Film Festival. Porton, Richard Sep 22, 2008 2106
The Jeonju International Film Festival. Rapfogel, Jared Sep 22, 2008 1506
I miss you already: a phenomenological understanding of Ken Jacobs's Circling Zero: We See Absence. Anderson, Dana Critical essay Sep 1, 2008 3846
No Country for Old Men: pro & con reviews of Hollywood's "Best Picture of the Year". Brown, Royal; Sharret, Christopher Jun 22, 2008 683
No exit in Texas. Brown, Royal Jun 22, 2008 2036
The Berlin International Film Festival. Porton, Richard Jun 22, 2008 1612
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
Populism goes multicultural. Gehring, Wes D. Jan 1, 2008 959
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
Look homeward: P. Adams Sitney on Robert Beavers. Sitney, P. Adams Sep 1, 2007 1583
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
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
Set piece; Rachel Haidu on decor: A Conquest by Marcel Broodthaers. Haidu, Rachel Jun 22, 2007 3883
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
Private feelings, public conduct: merging worlds? Atkinson, Roland Feb 1, 2007 1583
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
Conferences, Robin Wood, and thirty-five years of Literature/Film Quarterly. Johnson, David T. Conference notes Jan 1, 2007 1131
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
Divine art. Brief article Dec 1, 2006 73
"Fast Food Nation's" message. Doyle, Mona Brief article Dec 1, 2006 147
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
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
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
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
Insurrection and Depression-era politics in Selznick's A Tale of Two Cities (1935). Stevens, Jason W. Jul 1, 2006 13604
Washington Square's "virus of suggestion": source texts, intertexts, and adaptations. Newell, Kate Jul 1, 2006 4749
The art of asking forgiveness: Sunday's Children. Cohen, Hubert I. Jul 1, 2006 8712
Gnostic paranoia in Proyas's Dark City. Wilson, Eric G. Jul 1, 2006 4816
Hammett's Flitcraft parable, The Stepfather, and the significance of falling beams. Harris, Martin Jul 1, 2006 5941
"What you see is happening right now." Thermageddon and a search for tomorrow. Miller, Blair Jun 22, 2006 3117
Dick heads: Gary Indiana on Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly. Indiana, Gary Jun 22, 2006 1946
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
Wailing woodwind wild: the Noh transcription of Shakespeare's silent sounds in Kurosawa's Ran. Catania, Saviour Apr 1, 2006 3869
Lost in translation: reconsidering Shakespeare's Macbeth and Kurosawa's Throne of Blood. Suzuki, Erin Apr 1, 2006 5661
"To be or not to be" in "the Belly of the Whale"; a reading of Joseph Campbell's "modern Hero" hypothesis in Hamlet on film. Khoury, Yvette K. Apr 1, 2006 5256
Ariel and Prospero's modern-English adventure: language, social criticism, and adaptation in Paul Mazursky's Tempest. Haspel, Paul Apr 1, 2006 5183
White trash Shakespeare: taste, morality, and the dark side of the American dream in Billy Morrissette's Scotland, PA. Deitchman, Elizabeth A. Apr 1, 2006 3618
Shakespeare, class, and Scotland, PA. Brown, Eric C. Cover story Apr 1, 2006 4348
Life on earth: the films of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Wood, Robin Apr 1, 2006 2734
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
Chris Marker's Owl's eye view. Sheridan, Sarah Robayo Mar 22, 2006 1423
On William D. MacGillivray. Wood, Robin Mar 22, 2006 5305
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
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
Only the lonely. Atkinson, Roland Feb 1, 2006 1657
"Star formations and alien invasions: Mel Gibson and Signs". DeAngelis, Michael Jan 1, 2006 6657
Fidelio: Love, Adaptation, and Eyes Wide Shut. Frey, Mattias Jan 1, 2006 3429
Anima and the political dynamics of cultural change: the case of SImone (1). Izod, John Jan 1, 2006 4280
All roads lead to the abject: the monstrous feminine and gender boundaries in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. Kilker, Robert Jan 1, 2006 5032
The tragedy of Michael Corleone in The Godfather: Part III. Poon, Phoebe Jan 1, 2006 3294
Scarface, The Great Gatsby, and the American Dream. Roberts, Marilyn Jan 1, 2006 4000
Something is rotten in Blue Velvet ... an exploration of David Lynch's Blue Velvet via Shakespeare's Hamlet. Haig, Francesca Jan 1, 2006 5179
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
'Never Again,' that time: a recent movie spotlights Rwanda. Daniels, Anthony Apr 11, 2005 1696
Questions of genre in black popular music. Brackett, David Viewpoint essay Mar 22, 2005 8021

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