Left Coast Notes Left Coast Notes
While Michael Moore was leaving the stage of the Kodak Theater during the seventy-fifth annual Academy Awards ceremony, after calling George W.
Mar 26, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Marc Cooper
‘For the Monkey’ ‘For the Monkey’
When James Agee wrote in these pages sixty years ago, he often complained of the paltriness of this or that movie, as judged against the events of the day.
Mar 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Dashboard Confessional Dashboard Confessional
A few years ago, when moviegoers in this country were just beginning to learn about Abbas Kiarostami, I heard a crowd of New Yorkers berate him for having put a snatch of Vival...
Mar 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Apartheid: The Musical Apartheid: The Musical
If you've never watched Nelson Mandela dance, then you should know that he does a modified Locomotion, pumping his elbows like pistons to the immense, loving amusement of his p...
Feb 19, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Global Visions Global Visions
Since few of us at The Nation speak Thai, I'm going to refer to my favorite filmmaker of the month as Joe, which is the name actually used in this country by Apichatpong Weeras...
Feb 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Eastern Front The Eastern Front
If Elia Suleiman's face were a cartoon, then the single short, white brush stroke dabbed into his black hair would perhaps be the beginning of a thought balloon, perpetually fo...
Jan 23, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Who Killed Emmett Till? Who Killed Emmett Till?
The summer before 14-year-old Trent Lott entered all-white Pascagoula High School in Mississippi, a 14-year-old black boy from Chicago named Emmett Till convinced his mother to let...
Jan 16, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Holmberg and Rebecca Segall
Our Man in Saigon Our Man in Saigon
In the new film version of The Quiet American, a photographer races into a plaza in downtown Saigon, rather puzzling jaded British reporter Thomas Fowler (Michael Caine).
Jan 16, 2003 / Books & the Arts / H. Bruce Franklin
The Year in Pictures The Year in Pictures
Looking backward in the January chill, I feel my eyes shoot past the films of 2002 toward a movie made some thirty years ago: a picture by Martin Scorsese about violent, driven...
Jan 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Polanski’s Holocaust Polanski’s Holocaust
I can think of no picture of recent years, other than Roman Polanski's The Pianist, that has won the Palme d'Or at Cannes and yet stirred neither controversy nor excitement.
Dec 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans