New York Film Festival

Sopranos Creator David Chase Talks About His New Movie Not Fade Away

Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend at Cinefamily

L.A. Weekly Critic J. Hoberman's Top 10 Movies of 2011

George Lucas, John Baldessari, and Kenneth Anger Walk Into a Bar ...

Cannes 2011: Good Movies, Where Are You?

​ CANNES, France. The air is sweet, the food is fine, the company agreeable, but the movies so far... oy vey. With one exception: Inspired by the true story of a Tijuana beauty queen who got mixed up with the local narco gangsters, Gerardo Naranjo's Miss Bala is a ferociously paced crime thri ... More >>

Meek's Cutoff Review

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Eastern spiritualism meets a voracious appetite for VHS in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Cannes winner

We Are What We Are

Bruce Dern, Udo Kier, M. Emmet Walsh

The stars of Cinefamily's "That Guy!" series divulge their secrets

Sex, Cars, Fried Chicken

LACMA's Road Movies Series

Desperate Housemaids

Two films, two tempted husbands, 50 years of Korean cultural change

Same As It Ever Was

Don't give up on Jean-Luc Godard: His alleged final film continues a career-long conversation

The Wry Romanian: Corneliu Porumboiu

The director talks about the literary foundations of his comic films

Film Critic To Take Reigns of LA Film Fest

Newsweek film critic David Ansen was named artistic director of the Los Angeles Film Festival Monday. The writer, who still contributes to Newsweek after leaving fulltime duties in March, will be in charge of helping to narrow down selections and finalists for the influential showcase that happens e ... More >>

AFI FEST Free Admission: The Dark Side

AFI Fest 2009: What if Movies Were Free?

A changing film world — and hard times — means comp tickets

Past, Moving Forward: The Little Theater of Pedro Costa

The Portuguese director discusses his Jeanne Balibar documentary, Ne Change Rien

Couples Chaos: German Director Maren Ade Talks About Everyone Else

Charlotte Gainsbourg: The Devil Is a Woman

To hell and back with Antichrist's Cannes-winning star

New York Film Festival: Window on the World

New home, old mission for 47th annual event

Propaganda, War

​The Toronto International Film Festival doesn't exactly have a reputation for being a lightning rod for political controversy, but it became one in the early days of this year's edition thanks to a new festival sidebar, City to City, designed to explore "the evolving urban experience by immersing ... More >>

The Long, Hot Summer of L.A. Film

L.A., world movie capital, may indeed suffer from having too much of a good thing

The Windmill Movie: Mr. Rogers' Nieghborhood

One filmmaker finishes another's self-portrait

Summer Hours: Family Values

Old money meets a new world in Olivier Assayas' latest

Reflections on a Darkened Screen

Somewhere, Guy Debord is smiling -- or at least nodding in approval. Although it's been nearly 15 years since the French author, filmmaker and all-purpose radical put a gun to his heart and ended his life at the age of 62, his anarchistic spirit was alive and well this past weekend at the Film S ... More >>

How Do You Say "Oscar Scandal" in Hebrew?

Much as I am loathe to give any further wind to the orgy of self congratulations and poor taste that was this year's Academy Awards, given that it has been something of an ongoing discussion on this blog I do feel obliged to offer a few words to the outcome of the Best Foreign Language Film contest. ... More >>

How Do You Say "Oscar Scandal" in Hebrew?

Much as I am loathe to give any further wind to the orgy of self congratulations and poor taste that was this year's Academy Awards, given that it has been something of an ongoing discussion on this blog I do feel obliged to offer a few words to the outcome of the Best Foreign Language Film contest ... More >>

Made in USA: Godard’s Least-Seen Noir Plot-Scrambler Gets Another Run

“We were in a political movie ... Walt Disney with blood”

Lust, Yawn, Caution

There is a famous story about actor-director Erich von Stroheim that goes something like this: Cast as Rommel in Billy Wilder's 1943 Five Graves to Cairo, Stroheim was given a prop Leica camera as part of the character's wardrobe and proceeded to demand that the camera have film in it. When Wilder a ... More >>

Two Weeks in Manhattan

A veteran critic turns rookie programmer for the 45th New York Film Festival By Scott Foundas From The Reeler On Monday, July 30, as I arrived in New York for my first tour of duty on the New York Film Festival selection committee, I received an e-mail announcing the death of Ingmar Bergman -- one ... More >>