Unforgiven Unforgiven
Clint Eastwood won his first Academy Award for this Dirty-Harry-meets-the-western classic.
Jan 9, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Raging Bull Raging Bull
Robert DeNiro put on sixty pounds during the course of filming, probably by swallowing all that Hershey's syrup Martin Scorsese used for blood in the brutal black and white fight s...
Jan 8, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
Annie Hall Annie Hall
Of all the shiksa goddesses that Woody Allen created, none could top Annie Hall. "La-dee-da, la-dee-da..."
Jan 8, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
The Third Man The Third Man
Something was rotten in postwar Vienna, but it wasn't Graham Greene's brilliant screenplay.
Jan 8, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Manny Farber
Forrest Gump Forrest Gump
In which an addled man stumbles through recent American history, kind of like George W. Bush.
Jan 8, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Guilt and Absolution: Carlos Reygadas’s ‘Silent Light’ Guilt and Absolution: Carlos Reygadas’s ‘Silent Light’
Reviewing Silent Light and more.
Jan 8, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
East of Eden East of Eden
James Dean makes his motion picture debut in this Elia Kazan movie film of John Steinbeck's novel set in rural California, just prior to America's involvement in World War I.
Jan 7, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
The Lost Weekend The Lost Weekend
Billy Wilder didn't have it in him to tell the story behind Don Binam's alcoholic binge as it appeared in the novel--that he'd had a homosexual affair in college.
Jan 5, 2009 / Books & the Arts / James Agee
Norma Rae Norma Rae
While no flying nun, Salley Field is no less than heavenly as a wife and mother, organizing her fellow workers in a Southern textile factory.
Jan 5, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
All Quiet on the Western Front All Quiet on the Western Front
Eye-deep in hell during World War I.
Jan 5, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Alexander Bakshy