We'd Like to Help the Academy is our Oscar column highlighting the outliers that should be nominated (but probably won't be). For a long time I thought of Matthew McConaughey as an actor whom I liked more than he deserved. He built some good faith with Dazed and Confused and other early roles, yes ... More >>
After operating at maybe 75 percent of its potential for almost its first full week, on Sunday the Cannes Film Festival kicked into full auteurist gear, with the premieres of three formally audacious new works from three contemporary international art film stars: Michael Haneke's Amour (which we alr ... More >>
80-something couple George (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anna (Emmanuelle Riva), former music teachers with one adult daughter (Isabelle Huppert), are comfortably settled into their senescence together in a not-small and yet claustrophobic Paris apartment. One morning at the breakfast table, Anna goe ... More >>
Melies, Minnelli and Huppert x 2
Sautéed chicken breasts over fascism, from the director of The White Ribbon
Yet from industry turmoil, great films arose
Notes on unseen masterpieces, great performances, and movies as a form of solitary confinement
A changing film world and hard times means comp tickets
Our critics' picks - and pans - from this year's free festival lineup
Cutting class with Afterschool director Antonio Campos
Also, Blindsight, Hollywood Chinese and more
Also, Obama's rightward tilt, Rothchild's "Divorce" and McDonald's "Skid Row"
Don't blame him if you don't like what you see
Michael Haneke and his brutal home invaders return to implicate you
Also Lagerfeld Confidential, Man in the Chair and The Protagonist
Michael Haneke over America
Silent Movie Theatre’s Cinefamily is a gym for the mind
Listening in on The Lives of Others
Including this week's pick, Cavite
Some Candy is harder to swallow than others
Scott Foundas responds to Eberts critic-bait
In the best films of 2005, the past came back to haunt
Our readers write
Michael Haneke wakes the comfortably numb
Our critics picks from the final weekend of AFI Fest 2005
A map to the most buried of cinematic treasures
Cannes 2005: The verdict is in
Todd Solondz on being stuck with who you are
Dog Days and the New Austrian Cinema
LaBute's Possession may be; Chabrol's Merci Pour Le Chocolat's anything but
The Piano Teacher strikes sparks of submission
Art and history at the 54th Cannes film festival
