Paul Malcolm

All the basic ingredients of director Ang Lee‘s understated 1994 domestic comedy, Eat, Drink, Man, Woman -- a family in generational flux, the culinary rituals that help hold it together and a four-course love story -- have made it into director Maria Ripoll’s remake, Tortilla Soup. Ripoll and writers Tom......

Director John Carpenter’s production office is a low ranch-style house in residential Van Nuys. Set back from the street by a wide yard, the home is surrounded by tree-lined drives that insulate it from the Valley‘s major arteries and bear an eerie similarity, in the late-summer stillness, to the shady......

Ostensibly a fairy tale for wised-up tykes and the hapless parents who must keep them entertained, Shrek trades in the self-conscious wit of a Hollywood that’s just about given up on making the kind of children‘s movie in which innocence and imagination amount to more than so much fodder for......

Photo by Jack Gould Michael Katz, the chief lighting technician for NYPD Blue, watches the light play across the face of a stand-in as he sets the daylight source for an interrogation scene — and he doesn’t like what he sees. “Show me panning left to right,” he calls to......

Tsui Hark’s Time and Tide opens with the reflective voice of a young man sketching in the story of Genesis over a hurried montage of Hong Kong nightlife: crowded bars, snarled traffic, prostitutes at work. His version sometimes seems gleaned less from onionskin pages than from comic-book panels (“Then began......

Documentary filmmaker Sandi Simcha DuBowski falls into a corner window booth in the coffee shop of Park City’s Yarrow Hotel -- one of the hubs of activity at this year‘s Sundance Film Festival -- and, ignoring the tape recorder set before him, becomes wistfully transfixed by the snow softly falling......

Right from its storybook opening -- the voice-over narration begins with “Once upon a time . . .” -- Lasse Hallstrom’s Chocolat aims to beguile. Though a gray and somber sky hangs over the French village of Lansquenet on the eve of Lent, the promise of mischief and passions reborn......

In The 6th Day, Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to Total Recall territory as an average, if hulking, Joe caught in a technological conspiracy that forces his character to ask such searching questions as ”Who am I?“ while killing people left and right and blowing shit up. Lacking the far-out inventiveness of......

Dennis Doros and Amy Heller, the husband-and-wife team behind Milestone Film & Video, will tell you that the movies they’re passionate about place an overwhelming emphasis on visual storytelling, and furnish insights into the past and other cultures. But such fairly standard cineaste preoccupations are only the start of what......