Articles By ella taylor
Ashes of Time: Fugitive Pieces
Wed, Apr 30, 2008, 2:59 pm
Novel adaptation gives Holocaust survival the Harlequin treatment
Jellyfish's Etgar Keret: The Wizard of Id
Wed, Apr 23, 2008, 12:00 pm
Writer/director shoots from the hip about his low-budget movie and his high-budget life
Al Pacino Plays Beat the Clock in 88 Minutes
Wed, Apr 16, 2008, 1:19 pm
Jon Avnet’s cheesy new thriller, 88 Minutes, is 105 minutes long, and going in, I…
Married Life: Far From Heaven
Wed, Mar 5, 2008, 2:55 pm
Clearly inspired by Todd Haynes, Ira Sachs' film doesn't quite compare
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day: Incredible Shrinking Women
Wed, Mar 5, 2008, 2:50 pm
As "English" as tea and toast, this mainstreamed movie has its eye on a global market
The Duchess of Langeais: Feminin, Masculin
Wed, Feb 27, 2008, 7:19 pm
Jacques Rivette fights the battle of the sexes
The Counterfeiters: Blood Money
Wed, Feb 20, 2008, 5:28 pm
A morally ambiguous Holocaust tale of survival and collusion
The Spiderwick Chronicles: Father Figures, Headshrinkers
Wed, Feb 13, 2008, 3:19 pm
Oh, what a tangled web it weaves
In Bruges: More Adventures in Gangsterland
Wed, Feb 6, 2008, 4:28 pm
Martin McDonagh's sightseeing hit-men flick isn't much of a trip
The Year’s Best Characters
Wed, Jan 2, 2008, 5:30 pm
Some years it can be hard to come up with enough stellar lead performances to…
Blog This: 2007’s Best Films
Wed, Dec 26, 2007, 11:58 am
Unless you count a slight preponderance of anthropomorphic rats (mercifully fewer than last year’s penguins),…
Juan Antonio Bayona: Refinding Neverland
Wed, Dec 19, 2007, 9:58 am
At the Toronto Film Festival last September, Ella Taylor talked to Spanish director Juan Antonio…
Persepolis: Animated Exile
Wed, Dec 19, 2007, 9:52 am
You don’t have to wind Marjane Satrapi up to get her talking about her terrific…
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Wed, Dec 19, 2007, 9:49 am
The extraordinary Romanian film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, more comfortably known as…
The Kite Runner: Grounded
Wed, Dec 12, 2007, 11:59 am
Kites fly high over the San Francisco Bay and Kabul (okay, China), but not much…
Savage Love
Wed, Nov 28, 2007, 12:59 pm
Testing the limits of familial bonds, one nursing home at a time
Family Circus
Wed, Nov 28, 2007, 12:58 pm
In her first new film in a decade, Tamara Jenkins keeps it real
Starting Out in the Evening: Intelligent Design
Wed, Nov 21, 2007, 10:00 am
PYT seduces her literary hero
Flights of Fancy
Wed, Nov 21, 2007, 10:00 am
Two classic children’s films return to carry away a new generation
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