New Line Home Ent., $27.95.
GOSFORD PARK Universal Home Video, $19.95 SINCE ONCE IS not nearly enough for the interweavings of Robert Altman’s sublime Gosford…
Richard E. Grant makes good use of his Swaziland youth.
Artist confronts gulf between two communities.
A SIFF documentary shows how filmmakers are increasingly finding the most compelling subjects under the same roof.
Jamie Foxx steps into greatness portraying the musical legend. So who’s to quibble over a little extra melodrama?
Home Vision Ent., $29.95
A do-gooder’s moral impulses lead her into illegality, where family loyalties turn out to be even more fraught than abortion politics.
Who needs modern CGI animation? This charming French throwback takes its cues from the past.
JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE’S 1970 Le Cercle Rouge is a breath of bitingly crisp air, even in an atmosphere thick with smoke…
A TERMINALLY INFURIATING sniffler, My Life Without Me (which opens Friday, Oct. 17, at the Harvard Exit) offers radiant selfishness…
Adding humor—and even dance—gives a fresh edge to an old martial-arts hero.
JANE CAMPION’S FILMSSweetie, The Piano, The Portrait of a Lady, and Holy Smoke among themare never ordinary, never alike, never…
A Hollywood aristocrat remains as elusive in death as he was in life.
Pauline Kael, 1919-2001
A prodigal dad reclaims his sons for an ominous journey from the mysterious into the mythic— and the magnificent.
Forget John Irving, Jeff Bridges is the real anchor of this sex-drenched, grief-wrenched literary adaptation. Will a fifth Oscar nomination follow?
It’s no fun when a favorite artist takes a leap and misses, even worse when it’s someone as clearly adventurous…
Family, more than euthanasia, is the most powerful force in this compelling drama.
A Bel Air marriage goes sour. Naturally, it’s the wife’s fault.
Memory washes a widow between present and past.
More dysfunction viewed through an unforgiving lens.
The Toronto Film Festival had choice pickings this month. Now if only SIFF can cherry-pick its prize titles next spring.
