Film

The Anatomy Lesson The Anatomy Lesson

Matthew Barney's Cremaster cycle

Apr 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

Death in Helsinki Death in Helsinki

OK, let's say that life goes on.

Apr 3, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

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

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