Arcadia for the Aged

John Madden, the distinguished British director of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, tells us that his film has the structure of a Shakespearean comedy.

Choosing Love

The Beat That My Heart Skipped by Jacques Audiard.

Forgiving Woody

Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

Never So Free

Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation portrays an Iranian divorce under sharia law with sensitivity and pathos.

An Acquired Taste

Swinton gives her all to the martyred victim in We Need to Talk about Kevin.

Mock Star

Lars von Trier’s Melancholia.

Imagining Faith

If Greenaway correctly diagnosed the aesthetic crisis of modern film, The Tree of Life is the remedy.

Bin Laden: The Movie

The director of The Hurt Locker takes on the 9/11 mastermind

Hello, Columbus

Even the Rain (También la lluvia) Directed by Icíar Bollaín

Drowned Out

Julie Taymor’s The Tempest

All Of Humanity

King Lear on the big screen.

The Rebel

Luca Guadagnino’s I Am Love

Curtain Call

Marco Bellocchio’s "Vincere"

Kingpin

On Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet.

Sins of the Father

Alan Stone reviews Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon.

The Jewish Question

Alan Stone reviews the Coen Brothers' A Serious Man.

Purely Coincidental

Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.

Fool’s Gold

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Brüno.

Sound Barrier

Joe Wright’s The Soloist.

Purple Gaze

In the City of Sylvia

Condemned

Stephen Daldry’s The Reader.

The Mind’s Eye

Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York

What Does Woody Want?

Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

Working Wonders

Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven.

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