Nick Bradshaw

Back in 1992, when Richard Linklater was preparing his summer-of-’76 high school memento Dazed and Confused, he wanted a scene where a group of the movie’s teen troublemakers steal a Ronald McDonald statue and escort it, made up like a member of KISS, to their beer bust. Nix, said the......

Krzysztof Kieslowski began his directing career as a reluctant film student looking to get into the theater, and ended it, after the triumph of the Three Colors trilogy, complaining that the movies couldn’t attain the sublimities of literature; in the quarter-century between, he finessed a cinema of political skepticism and......