Kent Jones

He played con men and pickpockets, gold hunters and psychiatrists, sea captains and rodeo riders. He was one of the most dependable actors Hollywood ever had and also one of the best. Kent Jones goes to lunch with Richard Widmark and talks with him about his old job

The astute and cantankerous author behind the biographical index of film gets profiled

Tucked away between hotspots and flashpoints, the former Soviet Asian republics have been quietly turning out handcrafted masterpieces since the Sixties

Before high-speed internet, there were CD ROMs. You kind of had to be there

Apocalypses and meltdowns ran rampant along the croisette in 2003

Gus Van Sant’s Elephant

Whether going for gold or just keeping busy, the director of Mystic River is the last of the old-school pros

The films of Maurice Pialat

Cannes 2004

Much more than a scathing indictment of Dubya-era complicity, Michael Moore's exposé lays bare the devastating heartbreak now central to America's wartime reality

A father-and-son thread wove its way through the 58th edition of Cannes

Everybody hurt at Cannes this year

The Democratic Humor of Christopher Guest

The difference between ingenious and ingenuous is less than you think

In Robert Mulligan’s unsung masterpiece of moral suspense, boy is rescued from oblivion by three patiently vigilant adults

The past and its representations prove their relevance once again

This underrated 1975 remake of Raymond Chandler’s Farewell, My Lovely gives us the final, dying afterimage of a vanished era

In Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, an unfulfilled artist finds refuge in the past

An extended, online-only version of Kent Jones's interview