Amy Taubin

(David Weissman and Bill Weber, U.S., 2011)

Regardless of their size the best movies played for the highest stakes

A crime of passion and a tale of animal love—as related by Errol Morris

A closer look at the Manhattan festival's eclectic lineup

Martin Scorsese exorcises the demons of a convulsive period in American history

Splendor in the margins

Mike Leigh's Vera Drake takes an austere look at a woman whose heart-of-gold altruism places her outside the law

Now in his Seventies, Clint Eastwood continues to find new challenges both in front of and behind the camera, as the heartrending Million Dollar Baby demonstrates

Like life, Million Dollar Baby will take you places you don't necessarily expect to go. Therefore, you are strongly cautioned against reading the following Q & A with Clint Eastwood until after seeing the picture

More thoughts on Sundance 2005

Light Fantastic

Lost

(Steven Soderbergh, U.S., 2005)

Rohmer in Williamsburg

Wherefore art thou, indie?

Love Letter

David Cronenberg talks about his strangely intimate new Russian mafia movie Eastern Promises and Internet snuff films

Supposedly the voice of its generation, the indie film movement known as Mumblecore has had its 15 minutes. Amy Taubin looks past the hype

Che comandante Steven Soderbergh talks strategy and tactics with Amy Taubin

Amy Taubin interviewed David Fincher toward the end of November ’08, for her essay on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which appears in our January/February issue. Here is most of that interview, available exclusively online