Adam Nayman

There are actually only three masterpieces in this program devoted to the late Taiwanese director Edward Yang, whose death last year at age 59 was a terrible loss for contemporary film culture (even if it didn’t warrant a mention during the Oscars’ annual roll call of departed talent). The odd......

Julie Christie may well earn a bookend Oscar for her performance as a woman in the grip of Alzheimer’s disease in Away From Her,but it’s the veteran Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent, playing Christie’s stoically heartbroken husband, who anchors the picture. As well he should: Alice Munro’s short story “The Bear......

That Alain Delon figures prominently in several of the titles featured at the American Cinematheque’s new series of vintage French crime films is no surprise. The now-78-year-old male accessory magnate and former Smiths record-sleeve cover boy was one of the most iconic movie stars of the 1960s: the O.G., if......

The word visionary is often misapplied — recall the trailers last fall for Fur, from the “visionary ” director of Secretary — but the Polish filmmaker/poet/painter Lech Majewski earns the distinction for his singularly transfixing cinema. The Katowice native, who first won acclaim as a student filmmaker in Poland in......

The absence of Béla Tarr’s The Man From London from the 7th Hungarian Film Festival of Los Angeles is a bit perplexing: Shouldn’t a program devoted to a national cinema include a new work by its greatest living director? Let’s be fair and assume that there are good reasons for......

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The feting of David Lynch as a guest of honor at the eighth annual Polish Film Festival Los Angeles would seem to be an incongruity worthy of one of the director’s own films. But the fact is that Polish filmmaking figures rather importantly (if inscrutably) in Lynch’s much-discussed new film,......