Film: Shaking Up the Crowd at Cannes
The apocalypse came early to the Cannes Film Festival this year, filling screening rooms with snarling dogs, bursting bombs, shouting men and screaming women.
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Movie Review | 'The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian': Out of the Wardrobe, Into a War Zone
?Prince Caspian? is quite a bit darker than ?The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,? both in look and in mood. It is also in some ways more satisfying.
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Investigator to the Stars Is Convicted in Wiretaps
Anthony Pellicano was a ripped-from-a-pulp-novel private eye who made himself an indispensable Hollywood fixer.
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Movie Review | 'Reprise': Two Friends, Two Novels, One Mailbox: Lives at the Speed of Ambition
An exuberant, exhilaratingly playful testament to being young and hungry, ?Reprise? is a blast of unadulterated movie pleasure.
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Movie Review | 'Sangre de Mi Sangre': A Teenager?s Betrayal in Brooklyn
Although ?Sangre de Mi Sangre? exhibits a heartfelt connection with illegal immigrants, its myriad inconsistencies and strained plotting are frustrating.
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Movie Review: When Selling a Soul, Consider the Price
Christian Petzold?s enigmatic thriller ?Yella? offers a surreal X-ray vision of cutthroat capitalism in 21st-century Germany.
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Movie Review | 'My Father My Lord': Another Abraham?s Story, With a Different Ending
?My Father My Lord? observes the severe family life of an ultra-Orthodox rabbi.
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Movie Review | 'Quantum Hoops': This Is Basketball, Boys; It?s Not Rocket Science
?Quantum Hoops? tells the story of the California Institute of Technology?s men?s basketball team, a farcical topic in the context of college sports.
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Movie Review | 'Paraguayan Hammock': In Paraguay, Time Melts in the Torpid Air
That ?Paraguayan Hammock? happens to be one of the few features to emerge from Paraguay in recent decades in no way diminishes its rarity.
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Movie Review | 'Speed Racer': Gentlemen, Start Your Hot-Hued Engines
?Speed Racer? sets out to honor and refresh a youthful enthusiasm from the past and winds up smothering the fun in self-conscious grandiosity.
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Movie Review | 'Surfwise': A Family That Surfs to a Beat: Its Own
?Surfwise? has a bohemian vibe and a cool sheen, but it?s an eager-to-please, pleasing commercial enterprise with a reassuring narrative arc.
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Movie Review | 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead': Going for the Finger-Licking Gusto
?Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead? is just about as perfect as a film predicated on the joys of projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea can be.
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John Phillip Law, 70, Film Actor, Is Dead
Mr. Law was the handsome movie actor who captured attention as an angel in the futuristic ?Barbarella? and a lovesick Russian seaman in ?The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming.?
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For Movies, a Summer That?s Shy on Sequels
With this year?s crop of summer movies, Hollywood may have trouble topping last year?s success.
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Uncertain Futures for Bounty at Cannes
With the 61st Cannes Film Festival, hurdles lie between festival screens and American theaters.
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Critic?s Choice: New DVDs: Mitchell Leisen and ?The Big Trail?
This week?s DVDs include two films from the director Mitchell Leisen and Raoul Walsh?s 1930 epic western, ?The Big Trail.?
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Film: Mike Tyson Film Takes a Swing at His Old Image
Mike Tyson, his days as heavyweight champion long behind him, finds himself on an unlikely path forward as a new documentary about his life makes its premiere at Cannes.
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Film: Special Effects From the Real World
Tarsem, the director of ?The Fall,? didn?t need computer-generated dazzle. Just ask the swimming elephant.
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Cinematic Life in Oslo (Where Else?)
?Reprise? shows some parallels between its characters and the two men behind the movie.
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Film: 50 Years of Dizzy, Courtesy of Hitchcock
When ?Vertigo? hit screens a half-century ago, it was not at all what audiences had come to expect from the master of suspense.
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Arts, Briefly: ?Iron Man? Shows Muscle
?Iron Man? extended its run as the No. 1 box-office attraction by pulling in $50.5 million over the weekend at movie theaters in North America.
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Production of a Movie Stops Over Funds to Pay Its Stars
Production was halted after producers of the film failed to keep sufficient funds to pay actors in a union-mandated account.
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Indiana Jones Is Battling the Long Knives of the Internet
An online review of a coming Indiana Jones movie by Steven Spielberg has breached the film?s tight security.
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Return Laps for the First Voice of Speed Racer
Peter Fernandez, who voiced the role of the hero in the original animated ?Speed Racer? series, makes a cameo appearance in the big-screen, live-action adaptation of the show.
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Disney?s Newly Crowned Prince, Plucked From a London Stage
A movie franchise returns with a newly crowned hero: Ben Barnes as Prince Caspian.
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A Casting Call for Sexy Cars (Hybrids Need Not Apply)
Vehicles, both hot and not, have been enjoying an on-screen heyday. But Toyota?s Prius has remained something of a novelty act on the big screen.
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To Reduce Costs, Warner Brothers Closing 2 Film Divisions
The company said closing Picturehouse and Warner Independent Pictures was a cost-cutting move rooted in the changing economics of the specialty film business.
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Advertising: Your Chance to Finish a Movie Microsoft Started
Microsoft Corporation is underwriting an online movie-making contest to stimulate sales and burnish the reputation of its Windows Vista operating system.
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Stalker's Mother Recalls His Early Days of Promise
The mother of the man convicted of stalking the actress Uma Thurman recalls her son?s better days.
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Movie Review | 'Battle for Haditha': The Killing of Innocents Faces a Dry-Eyed Dissection
In ?Battle for Haditha,? the British filmmaker Nick Broomfield revisits a wretched chapter of the war in Iraq.
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A Night Out With Ellen Page: Just a Girl From Halifax
While many actresses fantasize about wearing Valentino or Zac Posen on the red carpet, Ellen Page has a completely different idea.
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A Knack for Being the Bad Boy
The British actor Ian McShane opens next week as the patriarch Max in Harold Pinter?s ?Homecoming,? a man-monster of diminishing powers and, of course, many vulgarities.
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Tomorrow?s Oscar Hopefuls Today
The ?Black List? has become the kind of underground document that writers with projects in development pray will mention their script.
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Under a New Watch, Miramax Still Homes in on Awards
Miramax may be a smaller and calmer organization under Daniel Battsek, but the studio has nonetheless remained in the thick of the awards race.
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For Struggling Black College, Hopes of a Revival
Wiley College is suddenly feeling the glow of celebrity with the release of a film about the school?s debating team.
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Critic?s Choice: Respect in a Box: Giving John Ford the Major American Artist Treatment
?Ford at Fox? is a gargantuan boxed set that assembles 24 of the 50-some films John Ford made for the studio that was his most consistent home.
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?Kite Runner? Boys Are Sent to United Arab Emirates
After months of worrying and diplomatic wrangling, the movie studio that is releasing ?The Kite Runner? has whisked to safety four young actors.
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Off the Stripper Pole and Into the Movies
She no longer dances naked, but the first-time screenwriter Diablo Cody is still exposing herself.
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Down South, Singing the Indie Blues
Twenty-seven years and 16 features after they began their mutual career, John Sayles and Maggie Renzi are still making movies.
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Film on Mexico?s Disputed ?06 Election Stirs Emotions
A documentary about last year?s disputed presidential election has drawn big crowds and generated controversy in Mexico.
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Striking Screenwriters Dismiss New Proposals
The screenwriters called the proposals from producers a ?a massive rollback,? and called on their members to continue their walkout.
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