How to be in Seattle in the last decade of the 20th century.
Novice director Alan Rickman traps his excellent cast in a frozen sea of pretension.
A near-miss by a potentially brilliant director.
Drew Barrymore in a bodice!
The new documentary ‘Kurt and Courtney’ swims with the bottom-feeders.
Or, why a pregnant woman should eat corn dogs.
Seeing California through New York eyes,and DC with Beltway blinders.
It’s sooo tragic when beautiful young white people die.
All fetish and foreplay, Adrian Lyne’s movie falls flat of a satisfying climax.
Woman is the way in and out of this French film.
A close and critical look at one of America’s great intellectual milieus.
If this is Paradise, I’ll take the Inferno.
Sometimes nothing happens, and that’s good. Seinfeld. Eric Rohmer movies. The fiction of Raymond Carver. We’re left with more room…
They meet—in an aquarium.
Finally, the director reins in his own worst instincts.
A celebration and dissection of the Hollywood novel.
Eric Rohmer says goodbye to youth.
How concert films free the viewer from the constraints of narrative.
Why Wendy Lesser is 1999’s girl-writer-made-good.
Richard Linklater skillfully directs a cast of heartthrobs with really weird names.
Hollywood life seen through the eye of the needle.
Blondes have more fun in John Cassavetes’ ‘Minnie and Moscowitz.’
Why are the normal stars turning stickly and leaving us all behind?
