Fri, Oct 21, 2005, 12:00am
The Chinese word for film is dianying-literally, electric shadow. No image could better suit Chinese film, bound to the policies of the Chinese government as tightly as a shadow to its lamp post.
Fri, Oct 21, 2005, 12:00am
Whether you call it West Village or Greenwich Village or just the Village, the area of Manhattan that stretches between 14th Street and Houston Street between Broadway and the Hudson River is at the heart of New York City's cultural identity.
Fri, Oct 21, 2005, 12:00am
I hated my last column. In fact, I've come to have a particular distaste for the very notion of "film criticism." Not writing it, per se (what self-respecting critic would decline a forum for public blathering?), but what it has become.
Fri, Oct 21, 2005, 12:00am
La Ceremonie is one of 12 films in MoMA's retrospective devoted to the great French actress Isabelle Huppert, which began on Monday with the premiere of her latest film, Gabrielle.
Fri, Oct 21, 2005, 12:00am
Secular and religious worlds collide on the screen, behind the camera, and in the theater in Giddi Dar's Ushpizin. The film prompts an examination of the sacred nature of the yeshiva and its collision with the corruption of the secular world.
Fri, Oct 21, 2005, 12:00am
On the commentary track of Criterion's DVD of Nicholas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth, actor Buck Henry talks about the genre of the cult film.
Fri, Oct 21, 2005, 12:00am
In an entertainment landscape dominated by reality television that is anything but real, documentaries seem to be the last possibility for capturing an authentic human story on film.
Fri, Oct 21, 2005, 12:00am
Apparently, nothing says Provence like the color yellow. That's certainly what one would think looking at the Partage, which screams the color at the top of its lungs.
Fri, Oct 21, 2005, 12:00am
Great as a post-dinner hangout, the Magnolia Bakery serves the best homemade cupcakes around, freshly baked even at 12:30 a.m.
Fri, Oct 21, 2005, 12:00am
When you put together a self-proclaimed appreciator of the glory of good pop music and someone whose tastes are a little more focused on the underground and give them five albums currently dominating the airwaves, it's not always pretty. We promise, no blood was shed for this assignment.
