F.x. Feeney

“Damn it,” shouts Sebastian Caine (Kevin Bacon), a lonesome scientist burning the midnight oil: The answer to an elusive riddle has trumped him once again. Then he notices a beauty about to get naked in the apartment across the courtyard, but she shuts her blinds and eludes him as well......

You would have to be seriously unplugged from the culture not to have encountered, sometime in the past decade or two, the clay animations of co-directorsproducers Nick Park and Peter Lord. Their creations tend to have lively, rapidly blinking eyes, chattery teeth and exquisitely chosen voices; their shorts tend to......

In John Berryman‘s 1945 short story ”The Imaginary Jew,“ an Irish Catholic poet gets into a late-night argument with a pair of slobbering anti-Semites, on the eve of America’s entry into World War II. When he makes a reasonable assertion about the looming conflict, his listeners cut him short with......

“That word last is charged for me with the same loss one feels under The Last of the Mohicans or The Last Emperor,” says director Deborah Warner regarding her debut feature, The Last September. “Even though I am a person who tends to be far more fascinated with ‘What’s next?‘”......

When I was a boy back in the 1950s, growing up on Long Island, I was neighbor to a son of European refugees who was obsessed with becoming somebody‘s blood brother. It was something he’d learned about watching a TV show called Broken Arrow, which starred Michael Ansara as the......

“I am trying to express the spirit of the place,” says Iceland’s leading film director, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson. “The problem with so many Icelandic films is that if the story is weak, it gets killed by the landscape.” At the end of an exhilarating three-day visit to his country, one......

”I know you got a good heart,“ says a black man to a white, midway through Restaurant, ”but even so, I don‘t trust you.“ Writer Tom Cudworth and director Eric Bross have fashioned a sharp, upbeat, well-wrought meditation on love and race that kicks the new year in movies off......

A man sits alone in a flophouse south of the Mexican border. He’s been trying without success to travel into the United States and is at his wits‘ end. A cockroach crosses the wall in front of him and is about to steer onto the mirror when the man reaches......

”I was Catholic for a while,“ says filmmaker Agnieszka Holland. ”I chose it when I was a teenager, and was very passionate, even fanatical. But I had problems with particular priests and some of the ideology, because I am half Jewish, and a skeptic. I still am. This critical part......

Part poem, part jungle blossom, all brilliance, Paul Thomas Anderson‘s Magnolia begins with a hymn to coincidence. Three fly past us in quick-sketch under the opening narration, as if God Almighty were pitching us an unproducible TV show: We jump from the strange death of a prosperous businessman at the......