
James Bowman
Scott Hicks (Shine, Snow Falling on Cedars), the director of No Reservations, deserves hearty congratulations, in my opinion, for coming…
Daniel Auteuil has one of the best faces an actor has ever been blessed with. It can express at the…
In its native Australia, Cherie Nowlan’s Introducing the Dwights was called Clubland, and you can see how that title could…
“There’s honor among thieves, they say.” So says Police Inspector Clain (Jean Desailly) to the impossibly glamorous anti-hero, Silien (Jean…
Perhaps the most revealing as well as the most dramatic moment of Unborn in the USA comes near the end…
Of course, no one should have anything but the deepest sympathy for the family of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street…
Albert Camus’s novel of 1942, L’etranger (or “The Outsider”), introduced the world to one of the first and most memorable…
There is an almost-magical moment in Emanuele Crialese’s Golden Door, whose Italian title is Nuovomondo or “New World.” On a…
You might think that a movie in which It’s a Wonderful Life engages in a whirlwind romance with La Femme…
Boy! I thought movies like Dylan McCormick’s Four Lane Highway went out with the 1960s. And a good thing too….