Film
Stanley Kauffmann on Films: Worlds of Difference
Nuremberg: Its Lesson For Today Schulberg Productions Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould Lorber Films Kings of Pastry First Run Features READ MORE >>
Through The Years
The Girl Olive Films Heartbreaker IFC Films A film about a child that is not intended to charm us is brave. The Girl, from Sweden, scorns the idea of charm and bravely concentrates on the life of a nine-year-old simply as a life. (We don’t even learn her name.) We are left at the end with a sense of experience, not some sort of benevolence. READ MORE >>
Sorkin vs. Zuckerberg
Universes
Lebanon Sony Pictures Classics Around a Small Mountain Cinema Guild READ MORE >>
Fudging Holly Golightly
Change Agent
Young Rebels
The Sicilian Girl Music Box Films Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child Arthouse Films READ MORE >>
Where Does Ethan Edwards Go?
In 2008, Robert Pippin, professor of Social Thought and Philosophy at the University of Chicago, delivered the Castle Lectures at Yale. They now form the basis of a book with a forbidding picture of John Wayne as Ethan Edwards (from The Searchers) on the cover. So this is a university press book on “Political Philosophy,” but it is a movie book, too. That at least is the hope; Yale University Press is asking $35 for it. READ MORE >>
Why Is Everyone So Obsessed With ‘Inception’?
Early and Late
I Was Born, But... (IFC Center)Wild Grass (Sony Pictures Classics)Alamar (Film Movement) READ MORE >>
