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City of Life and Death Review

State of the Art House

In the capital of cinema, specialty films are losing ground (but there are glimmers of hope)

Telluride: Down From The Mountain

Studios trek to Colorado festival in search of art-film street cred

Fifteen Minutes of Fame, Like It or Not

Grappling with accidental YouTube notoriety in the comedy-documentary Winnebago Man

Little Big Man: Chris Fuller on His Microbudget Loren Cass

“It’s not about adolescence — it is adolescence.”

Sundance, R.I.P.?

"Will everyone be wearing black?" a friend asked over dinner the other night when the subject arose of my imminent departure for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "I'm so glad I'm not going to Sundance," confided one longtime film publicist at this week's Los Angeles Film Critics awards dinner, as if ... More >>

Foundas on Film: Sundance, R.I.P.?

"Will everyone be wearing black?" a friend asked over dinner the other night when the subject arose of my imminent departure for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "I'm so glad I'm not going to Sundance," confided one longtime film publicist at this week's Los Angeles Film Critics awards dinner, as if ... More >>

Momma's Man: Mikey Likes It

Writer-director Azazel Jacobs' indie Angeleno tries to go home again

The Natural

Chatterley adaptation makes the orgasmic organic

On the Road

Traveling the human highway of Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy

Foreign Affairs

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

Time Lost and Found

Wong Kar-Wai’s Days of Being Wild

Black Mischief

Blind Shaft’s mordant take on China between ideologies

Prodigal Dad

Filial ecstasy and agony in The Return

Brush With Life

Chi-Hwa-Seon’s portrait of a painter

Music Drill

The Piano Teacher strikes sparks of submission

The Hours and Times

Raul Ruiz’s magnificent Proustian dream

A Man's World

Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train and the restored Grand Illusion

Fallen Angels, Resurrected

Shohei Imamura's rowdy humanism

Manohla Dargis' Hit List