James Bowman
In The Memory of a Killer, also known as The Alzheimer Case (De Zaak Alzheimer), Erik Van Looy has done…
L’Esquive or Games of Love and Chance by the French-Arab director Abdellatif Kechiche is a sort of French West Side…
The high-brow history of our literary, artistic, and cinematic avant gardes tends to obscure the fact that today’s equivalent is…
Now that Cindy Sheehan, the “Peace Mom” — or even “Mother Peace” (as fawning Dana Milbank of the Washington Post…
No, this won’t do, said I to myself. An American officer in John Dahl’s new movie, The Great Raid, had…
Jim Jarmusch, the “quirky” (he hates the word) Manhattan film-maker, has been getting some good press recently. But judging by…
Watch out, folks! There is a new generation of movie technology that has been designed to sneak in under the…
Yet another attempt to account for the Iraqi insurgency by Eric Westervelt on NPR’s “Morning Edition” falls foul of the…
Michael Winterbottom’s 9 Songs is a movie mystery. Not, that is, a movie about a mystery. There can be few…
The Beautiful Country by the Norwegian director, Hans Petter Moland, is a movie where the story does most of the…
