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Features

Second Thoughts on Stroheim

By Jonathan Rosenbaum
May 29, 2012
An attempt to isolate, but not dismantle, the legend

From Stupefaction to Just Plain Stupid

By jwham
April 6, 2012

Radical Kindness

By Frédéric Bonnaud, translated by Jonathan Robbins
March 12, 2012
The Kid with a Bike leads Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s cinema of gestures and actions out of the shadows

Love Among the Ruins

By Graham Fuller
February 27, 2012
British cinema’s keeper of the postwar flame Terence Davies fans the burning embers of forbidden desire in The Deep Blue Sea

No Surrender

By Anton Dolin
February 27, 2012
The strange case of Russian maverick Aleksei German, and his stubborn battle to overthrow cinematic orthodoxy and correct the historical record

Go West, Old Mae

By Gilbert Adair
February 24, 2012
At 86, Mae West made a “new” movie called Sextette. To Gilbert Adair, it seems like very old times.

Leaving The Times

By Roger Greenspun
January 12, 2012
Or: How I Came to Lose My Job as a Second-String Movie Critic

Miss Bala: Nightmare State

By José Teodoro
January 4, 2012
Mexican director Gerardo Naranjo upends his filmmaking to show a country torn apart

About Mike Nichols

By Richard T. Jameson
November 26, 2011
In conjunction with Film Society Of Lincoln Center 35th Gala Tribute honoring Mike Nichols, Richard T. Jameson looks back at the writer/director/performer's career

François Truffaut: Day Into Night

By Richard Combs
November 3, 2011
How the fairy tales of the Prince Charming of the New Wave led to darkness and death