Japanese director Takeshi Kitano's Fireworks is a funny, strange, elliptical, sentimental, intensely moving story about the absurd and violent poetry of everyday life, that begins, somehow fittingly, in a parking garage. The lead character, an ex-cop named Nishi played by the director himself, encounters a pair of workmen who've eaten......

In the nature of what sells studio movies, Primary Colors stands to gain more from the presence of John Travolta than from l'affaire Lewinsky. For better or worse, erupting bimbos are taken in stride these days, all efforts by the press to the contrary. In any case, the evening-news hounds......

''Everyone has their private abyss," says director Brigitte Rouan. "Mine is centered on the theme of cowardice." This should surprise anybody who's seen Rouan's new film, Post Coitum, in which the director herself plays the central character, a 40-something woman in the throes of an infernal, often comedic breakdown over......