Bertrand Tavernier

The Princess of Montpensier

AFI Fest A to Z: Hey Man, Yeah

Our critics' picks for what to see and skip at this year's festival

Regard From Cannes

Hollywood stars and name-brand Euro auteurs are conquered by Carlos the Jackal,Thai magical realism and a whole lot of Romanians

Eric Rohmer's Talking Pictures

Remembering the idiosyncratiic New Wave director, 1920-2010

CSI Paris: French Crime at LACMA

Sprechen Sie Berlinale? Looking for "Slow Cinema" Among the Polyglot Unhappy Meals at the Berlin International Film Festival

German director Maren Ade's Everyone Else is competition's most impressive film

Mist Opportunity

Not many films in the 60 years since Robert Flaherty's immortal Louisiana Story have evoked the atmosphere of the Bayou State as strongly as Bertrand Tavernier's In the Electric Mist, a movie that doesn't seem to have been filmed so much as distilled, on a creaking porch beset by mosquitos and summe ... More >>

Berlin Film Festival: Mist Opportunity

Not many films in the 60 years since Robert Flaherty's immortal Louisiana Story have evoked the atmosphere of the Bayou State as strongly as Bertrand Tavernier's In the Electric Mist, a movie that doesn't seem to have been filmed so much as distilled, on a creaking porch beset by mosquitos and summ ... More >>

Run Naomi Run

For the next 10 days, I'll be posting regularly from the Berlin International Film Festival (a.k.a. the Berlinale), generally considered to be the second largest festival in Europe (after Cannes) and, at 59, one of the oldest. This year, the Berlinale's international competition will feature the wor ... More >>

Berlin Film Festival: Run Naomi Run

For the next 10 days, I'll be posting regularly from the Berlin International Film Festival (a.k.a. the Berlinale), generally considered to be the second largest festival in Europe (after Cannes) and, at 59, one of the oldest. This year, the Berlinale's international competition will feature the wo ... More >>

The Class: To Sir, With Attitude

Student-teacher power struggles

AFI Film Fest 2007: Behind the Man Behind the Scenes

Man of Cinema raises the curtain on a little-known movie giant

Persistence of Time

Thirty-six years after its premiere, a cinephilic Holy Grail re-emerges

Life and So Much More

Philippe Noiret, 1930–2006

Le Pierre

There may be no single person who better embodies the Telluride spirit than Pierre Rissient, a lifelong cinephile who has attended Telluride for nearly all of its 33 years and whose resume is as varied as the mountain climate. One of the storied film buffs who inhabited the hallowed halls of Henri L ... More >>

Remembering Pitfall

How De Toth’s noir prefigured the era of the antihero

Foreign Affairs

The box-office slump of 2005 is a reality, regardless of what language you speak

Not Showing at a Theater Near You

A cinephile goes looking for the films that got away

The Ultra Critic

Hollywood Boulevard gives Roger Ebert a very enthusiastic thumbs-up

The French Connection

From moules frite to tom yam goong

Downsized

American and European movies go to work

Beauty and the Beast

French cinema battles Hollywood’s global movie offensive

All in the Work-Family

Tavernier's act of grace, Newell's comedy of manners

Cinephobia

Some notes on movies and their critics

After Sex, Courage

France's actress-director Brigitte Rouan