The cinephile's film-distributor, the Criterion Collection, has been growing a compendium of supplementary film materials on their website -- essays, features, news, press, photos -- and last month it added small but strong tribute to food in film. Felicitously titled "A Criterion Feast," the piece ... More >>
Long a favorite among die-hard cinephiles, Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman is as noted for her elusiveness as she is for the quality of her work. Her uncompromising (and 201-minute-long) 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, to name the best-known example, is something of ... More >>
Barbers, Sharks and Treasure
Goodbye Ben Gazzara, Hello Malcolm McDowell
From party girl to Oscar winner, a journey to the stripped-down Somewhere
Our critics' picks - and pans - from this year's free festival lineup
Critic's passing leaves a Space
Also, this week's picks, Laura Smiles and This is England
A map to the most buried of cinematic treasures
Listening to Chantal Akerman
The Piano Teacher strikes sparks of submission
Wiseman's Public Housing, August's Les Miserables
