Renoir All Over Again Renoir All Over Again
Like a kid at an ice-cream counter, urging his friends to try the chocolate--like a writer of travel guides, warning tourists not to miss the Eiffel Tower--I come before you to p...
Nov 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Heaven Can Wait Heaven Can Wait
It's rude of me to speak of Todd Haynes's new picture as if it were a symptom; but then, he's the one who's always consulting doctors.
Nov 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Love, Sandler Style Love, Sandler Style
Although I'm mad for Paul Thomas Anderson's new picture, Punch-Drunk Love, I also suspect it's made me a little crazy.
Oct 24, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
License to Kill License to Kill
The closest thing you get to a dull moment in Michael Moore's latest picture, Bowling for Columbine, is an interview with Marilyn Manson.
Oct 10, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Haunted Hermitage Haunted Hermitage
While going about their business, great artists often make monkeys of the people who write about them.
Sep 25, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
High Noon: The Rewrite High Noon: The Rewrite
On September 17, PBS aired Darkness at High Noon: The Carl Foreman Documents. On the surface, this documentary is a posthumous homage to a worthy blacklisted screenwriter.
Sep 19, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ed Rampell
Chile Reception Chile Reception
Walking at a good New Yorker's clip, you would need about fifteen minutes to go between Film Forum and the World Trade Center site: a straight shot down Varick Street from thre...
Sep 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Auteur, Auteur! Auteur, Auteur!
The streets of lower Manhattan are deserted--also spotlessly clean and glowing in the light of the golden hour--when the studio head takes the movie director outside to tell hi...
Aug 29, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Play’s the Thing The Play’s the Thing
Like life itself, good movies sometimes change the subject on you in midparagraph. You think you're watching the story of an elderly man in mourning, buoying himself up against gr...
Aug 15, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Screening Our Politics Screening Our Politics
Like Pop-Up Video--one of the many things the movie-industry left never anticipated--ancillary factoids keep imposing themselves on Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner's Radical Hollywood:...
Aug 1, 2002 / Books & the Arts / John Anderson