In her sharp, immensely enjoyable collection of essays, Lulu in Hollywood, silent-film star Louise Brooks refers repeatedly to the sorry state of the beautiful woman
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Husband-and-wife team Charles and Ray Eames remain icons in the history of American design, thanks to a playful aesthetic that illuminated the staid ’50s and still
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Last month at Sprockets, a lively children’s-film festival mounted annually under the aegis of the Toronto Film Festival, my 8-year-old and I got a sneak peek at O
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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 tril
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On a day when the earth moved under the South Pacific and its helpless islands were served with nasty tsunami warnings, I can’t say I was fully ready to roll with
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HBO’s new Sunday-night lineup turns one of television’s cherished family mantras into a question: Father knows best?
For seven years now, viewers have been deep
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Lending a winning imprimatur to Asia Argento’s bloated adaptation of JT LeRoy’s novel The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, French director Gaspar Noé — a
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The second week of the Pan African Film & Arts Festival continues this year’s strong program of fantastic documentaries. Favela Rising opens with the onscreen
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You can’t exactly ignore the central device of the CBS sitcom
How I Met Your Mother: It kicks off each show. We see a couple of bored-looking
kids from the yea
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In the fourth Harry Potter film, the adventures are more
perilous, the spells more powerful and the young wizards’ own bodies roiling with
tempests of pub
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Photo by Kevin Scanlon
For seven days in late September, a film about which practically no information
was available surfaced in five area theaters. Titled Da
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