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05/16/2008 10:43 AM
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Film: Shaking Up the Crowd at Cannes
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The apocalypse came early to the Cannes Film Festival this year, filling screening rooms with snarling dogs, bursting bombs, shouting men and screaming women.
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05/16/2008 11:11 AM
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Movie Review | 'The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian': Out of the Wardrobe, Into a War Zone
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?Prince Caspian? is quite a bit darker than ?The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,? both in look and in mood. It is also in some ways more satisfying.
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05/16/2008 02:15 AM
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Investigator to the Stars Is Convicted in Wiretaps
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Anthony Pellicano was a ripped-from-a-pulp-novel private eye who made himself an indispensable Hollywood fixer.
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05/16/2008 12:48 AM
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Movie Review | 'Reprise': Two Friends, Two Novels, One Mailbox: Lives at the Speed of Ambition
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An exuberant, exhilaratingly playful testament to being young and hungry, ?Reprise? is a blast of unadulterated movie pleasure.
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05/16/2008 12:48 AM
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Movie Review | 'Sangre de Mi Sangre': A Teenager?s Betrayal in Brooklyn
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Although ?Sangre de Mi Sangre? exhibits a heartfelt connection with illegal immigrants, its myriad inconsistencies and strained plotting are frustrating.
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05/16/2008 12:47 AM
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Movie Review: When Selling a Soul, Consider the Price
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Christian Petzold?s enigmatic thriller ?Yella? offers a surreal X-ray vision of cutthroat capitalism in 21st-century Germany.
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05/16/2008 10:56 AM
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Movie Review | 'My Father My Lord': Another Abraham?s Story, With a Different Ending
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?My Father My Lord? observes the severe family life of an ultra-Orthodox rabbi.
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05/16/2008 07:03 AM
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Movie Review | 'Quantum Hoops': This Is Basketball, Boys; It?s Not Rocket Science
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?Quantum Hoops? tells the story of the California Institute of Technology?s men?s basketball team, a farcical topic in the context of college sports.
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05/14/2008 12:08 AM
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Movie Review | 'Paraguayan Hammock': In Paraguay, Time Melts in the Torpid Air
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That ?Paraguayan Hammock? happens to be one of the few features to emerge from Paraguay in recent decades in no way diminishes its rarity.
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05/09/2008 12:21 AM
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Movie Review | 'Speed Racer': Gentlemen, Start Your Hot-Hued Engines
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?Speed Racer? sets out to honor and refresh a youthful enthusiasm from the past and winds up smothering the fun in self-conscious grandiosity.
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05/09/2008 12:13 PM
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Movie Review | 'Surfwise': A Family That Surfs to a Beat: Its Own
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?Surfwise? has a bohemian vibe and a cool sheen, but it?s an eager-to-please, pleasing commercial enterprise with a reassuring narrative arc.
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05/08/2008 10:18 PM
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Movie Review | 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead': Going for the Finger-Licking Gusto
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?Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead? is just about as perfect as a film predicated on the joys of projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea can be.
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05/16/2008 07:02 AM
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John Phillip Law, 70, Film Actor, Is Dead
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Mr. Law was the handsome movie actor who captured attention as an angel in the futuristic ?Barbarella? and a lovesick Russian seaman in ?The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming.?
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05/16/2008 10:42 AM
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For Movies, a Summer That?s Shy on Sequels
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With this year?s crop of summer movies, Hollywood may have trouble topping last year?s success.
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05/13/2008 11:44 PM
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Uncertain Futures for Bounty at Cannes
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With the 61st Cannes Film Festival, hurdles lie between festival screens and American theaters.
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05/14/2008 10:21 PM
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Critic?s Choice: New DVDs: Mitchell Leisen and ?The Big Trail?
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This week?s DVDs include two films from the director Mitchell Leisen and Raoul Walsh?s 1930 epic western, ?The Big Trail.?
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05/13/2008 01:57 PM
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Film: Mike Tyson Film Takes a Swing at His Old Image
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Mike Tyson, his days as heavyweight champion long behind him, finds himself on an unlikely path forward as a new documentary about his life makes its premiere at Cannes.
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05/15/2008 10:17 PM
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Film: Special Effects From the Real World
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Tarsem, the director of ?The Fall,? didn?t need computer-generated dazzle. Just ask the swimming elephant.
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05/15/2008 10:17 PM
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Cinematic Life in Oslo (Where Else?)
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?Reprise? shows some parallels between its characters and the two men behind the movie.
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05/15/2008 10:17 PM
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Film: 50 Years of Dizzy, Courtesy of Hitchcock
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When ?Vertigo? hit screens a half-century ago, it was not at all what audiences had come to expect from the master of suspense.
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05/11/2008 10:57 PM
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Arts, Briefly: ?Iron Man? Shows Muscle
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?Iron Man? extended its run as the No. 1 box-office attraction by pulling in $50.5 million over the weekend at movie theaters in North America.
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05/11/2008 11:49 PM
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Production of a Movie Stops Over Funds to Pay Its Stars
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Production was halted after producers of the film failed to keep sufficient funds to pay actors in a union-mandated account.
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05/12/2008 05:40 PM
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Indiana Jones Is Battling the Long Knives of the Internet
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An online review of a coming Indiana Jones movie by Steven Spielberg has breached the film?s tight security.
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05/09/2008 11:44 PM
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Return Laps for the First Voice of Speed Racer
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Peter Fernandez, who voiced the role of the hero in the original animated ?Speed Racer? series, makes a cameo appearance in the big-screen, live-action adaptation of the show.
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05/09/2008 12:12 AM
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Disney?s Newly Crowned Prince, Plucked From a London Stage
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A movie franchise returns with a newly crowned hero: Ben Barnes as Prince Caspian.
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05/13/2008 12:03 AM
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A Casting Call for Sexy Cars (Hybrids Need Not Apply)
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Vehicles, both hot and not, have been enjoying an on-screen heyday. But Toyota?s Prius has remained something of a novelty act on the big screen.
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05/09/2008 12:21 AM
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To Reduce Costs, Warner Brothers Closing 2 Film Divisions
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The company said closing Picturehouse and Warner Independent Pictures was a cost-cutting move rooted in the changing economics of the specialty film business.
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05/11/2008 10:21 PM
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Advertising: Your Chance to Finish a Movie Microsoft Started
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Microsoft Corporation is underwriting an online movie-making contest to stimulate sales and burnish the reputation of its Windows Vista operating system.
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05/08/2008 07:43 AM
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Stalker's Mother Recalls His Early Days of Promise
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The mother of the man convicted of stalking the actress Uma Thurman recalls her son?s better days.
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05/16/2008 01:11 AM
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Movie Review | 'Battle for Haditha': The Killing of Innocents Faces a Dry-Eyed Dissection
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In ?Battle for Haditha,? the British filmmaker Nick Broomfield revisits a wretched chapter of the war in Iraq.
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12/07/2007 10:07 PM
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A Night Out With Ellen Page: Just a Girl From Halifax
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While many actresses fantasize about wearing Valentino or Zac Posen on the red carpet, Ellen Page has a completely different idea.
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12/15/2007 01:22 AM
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A Knack for Being the Bad Boy
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The British actor Ian McShane opens next week as the patriarch Max in Harold Pinter?s ?Homecoming,? a man-monster of diminishing powers and, of course, many vulgarities.
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12/10/2007 03:29 PM
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Tomorrow?s Oscar Hopefuls Today
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The ?Black List? has become the kind of underground document that writers with projects in development pray will mention their script.
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12/05/2007 09:49 PM
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Under a New Watch, Miramax Still Homes in on Awards
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Miramax may be a smaller and calmer organization under Daniel Battsek, but the studio has nonetheless remained in the thick of the awards race.
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12/05/2007 09:33 AM
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For Struggling Black College, Hopes of a Revival
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Wiley College is suddenly feeling the glow of celebrity with the release of a film about the school?s debating team.
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12/07/2007 02:26 AM
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Critic?s Choice: Respect in a Box: Giving John Ford the Major American Artist Treatment
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?Ford at Fox? is a gargantuan boxed set that assembles 24 of the 50-some films John Ford made for the studio that was his most consistent home.
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12/07/2007 02:25 AM
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?Kite Runner? Boys Are Sent to United Arab Emirates
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After months of worrying and diplomatic wrangling, the movie studio that is releasing ?The Kite Runner? has whisked to safety four young actors.
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12/03/2007 02:30 PM
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Off the Stripper Pole and Into the Movies
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She no longer dances naked, but the first-time screenwriter Diablo Cody is still exposing herself.
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11/30/2007 12:55 PM
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Down South, Singing the Indie Blues
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Twenty-seven years and 16 features after they began their mutual career, John Sayles and Maggie Renzi are still making movies.
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12/02/2007 12:06 AM
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Film on Mexico?s Disputed ?06 Election Stirs Emotions
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A documentary about last year?s disputed presidential election has drawn big crowds and generated controversy in Mexico.
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11/30/2007 08:35 AM
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Striking Screenwriters Dismiss New Proposals
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The screenwriters called the proposals from producers a ?a massive rollback,? and called on their members to continue their walkout.
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