TNR Film Classics: ‘The Great Gatsby’ (April 13, 1974)
When I saw the 1949 film of The Great Gatsby, the only other person in the screening room was Edmund Wilson(whom I didn’t know). Afterward, as he left, a smiling Paramount publicity man asked him how he had liked the picture. “Not very much, I’m afraid,” said Wilson,and kept walking to the elevator. The Paramount man looked less disappointed than betrayed, as if saying,“We’ve gone to the, trouble of making a whole movie out of your friend’s book and you don’t even appreciate it!” READ MORE >>
TNR Film Classics: ‘The Age of Innocence’ (October 18, 1993)
Stanley Kauffmann on Films: A Search, a Research
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia House of Pleasures READ MORE >>
Stanley Kauffmann on Films: The Unexpected
The Conquest Tomboy In Heaven, Underground: The Weissensee Jewish Cemetery READ MORE >>
TNR Film Classic: 'Kramer vs. Kramer' (1979)
Stanley Kauffmann on Films: Rare Spirits
Paul Goodman Changed My Life Le Havre Young Goethe In Love READ MORE >>
Stanley Kauffmann on Films: Shade and Dazzle
You Don’t Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantánamo John Huston: Courage and ArtBy Jeffrey Meyers (Crown Archetype, 475 pp., $30) READ MORE >>
Stanley Kauffmann on Films: Truths, Mostly
It takes a lot of courage to call a film Happy, Happy, and the young Norwegian director Anne Sewitsky manages to justify it. Her first feature film fixes on the very idea of happiness: what it is or is thought to be, and what happens to it. Other directors of her generation have been likewise concerned, but with Ragnhild Tronvoll’s supple screenplay, Sewitsky puts a story before us that is both recognizable and sufficiently probing. READ MORE >>
Stanley Kauffmann on Films: Unusual People
Painters have long attracted film-makers for reasons too obvious to explore. Rembrandt, Vermeer, Van Gogh, Michelangelo are only a few who have served their workaday turn on the screen. Now comes a considerable difference, itself in the hands of an eminent artist. READ MORE >>
On Violence, in Chicago and in Afghanistan
The Interrupters Cinema Guild Hell and Back Again Docurama Film Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow Alive Mind Cinema READ MORE >>
