When more is more
Are some movies too long for audiences to sit through? Or do our expectations for movies often come up short? Recently, the Music Box Theatre ran Marco Tulli Giordana's six-hour...
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Twelve great film novels--and an omission: `Fanny and Alexander' (Swedish; Ingmar Bergman, 1983). Theater and religion, the two dominant influences in Ingmar Bergman's life, clash magically in this lovingly wrought...
3 directors of note explore ‘Eros’ in distinct stories
"Eros" is a classy triple shot of film erotica from three brilliant writer-directors: Italy's Michelangelo Antonioni, Hong Kong's Wong Karwai and the U.S.'s Steven Soderbergh. This justly renowned trio combine...
ARTTHE BOONE COLLECTION”Objects of History: The Boone…
ART THE BOONE COLLECTION "Objects of History: The Boone Collection of Japanese Art," scroll paintings, woodblock prints and decorative works drawn from holdings of more than 3,500 objects at the...
Queen Latifah exits the `Shop’ looking good
"Beauty Shop" may have a few snags, but it's definitely not the cinematic equivalent of a bad hair day. I liked this entry from the "Barbershop" franchise, tailor-made for Queen...
Original `Sin’
Film noir never dies. It just keeps coming back, drenched in black, guns blazing. At least that's the case with "Sin City," an amazingly successful attempt by Rob-ert Rodriguez to...
Movie review: ‘The Ballad of Jack and Rose’
21/2 stars (out of 4) In Rebecca Miller's "The Ballad of Jack and Rose," Daniel Day-Lewis plays a '60s idealist who violently collides with '80s greed. That theme and those...
Movie review: ‘The Best of Youth’
4 stars (out of 4) Sometimes great movies burst on us in unexpected ways. "The Best of Youth," director Marco Tullio Giordana's extraordinary film about two brothers and their family,...
Movie review: ‘Sin City’
31/2 stars (out of 4) Film noir never dies. It just keeps coming back, drenched in black, guns blazing. At least that's the case with "Sin City," an amazingly successful...
Movie review: ‘In My Country’
31/2 stars (out of 4) John Boorman's "In My Country," set during South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission Hearings in the mid-1990s, is a stirring, large-souled movie about an event...