Scott Foundas

Photo by E. Caro “Why does no one take movies seriously?” Jean-Louis Trintignant’s race-car driver asks Anouk Aimée’s script supervisor in a scene from Claude Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman. To which she replies, “Because we go when everything’s okay.” Cynics, of course, would suggest as the more appropriate......

Camp wants you to like it — really, really wants you to like it — and that’s precisely the movie’s problem: It’s way too eager to please. Directed by screenwriter-actor Todd Graff and drawn from his own experiences attending the Stagedoor Manor performing-arts camp in upstate New York, the movie......

Photo by Lisa Tomasetti From its opening dream sequence — in which wide-eyed, bleach-haired Freddy (Kick Gurry) imagines himself the mania-inducing headliner of a popular alterna-rock band, jamming before a crowd of thousands in a huge arena — through to the Sydney-set scenes that follow, there’s a fairy-tale texture to......

For whatever it’s worth, Jerry Bruckheimer’s reputation as action-movie impresario par excellence will remain largely unscathed by Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, the first to arrive of the producer’s two summertime opuses (with Bad Boys II due for delivery next week). Like most of the......

The arrival of Jonathan Mostow’s Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines heralds a welcome, if inevitably momentary, respite from this unhappy summer of unequal and/or unworthy sequels — one so satisfying that it nearly (but not quite) makes up for all the dreck we’ve slogged through along the way. Here......

There are, I suppose, people who still find Rob Reiner’s name on a movie sufficient reason to plunk down their box-office dollars. People who manage to overlook (or, perhaps, simply haven’t seen) his shrill “black” comedy, North, his unconscionably naive Medgar Evers biopic, Ghosts of Mississippi, or that insufferable, misogynistic......

In the end, Dogville’s bark was worse than its bite. That ostentatious opus, the latest from contemporary cinema’s indefatigable enfant terrible, Lars Von Trier, went home empty-handed at the close of the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, its tempestuous writer-director as absent from the closing-night awards ceremony as the growling, yelping......

Can there be art without humanity? So Neil LaBute seems to ask in The Shape of Things, his disarmingly funny new film with a doozy of a twist ending. It is, of course, something that many have asked themselves about LaBute’s own work, which, despite its recent lapses into lighter-hearted......

X2, the breathlessly titled sequel to the surprise 2000 hit X-Men, is certain to make a lot of people very happy. It’s bound to rack up some serious box-office booty in the two weeks prior to the arrival of The Matrix Reloaded. And it’s even surer to kick off lots......