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Reviews of Madagascar, Howl's Moving Castle and several other new films.
Jun 2, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Love on the Run Love on the Run
She has the face of a mermaid--a real one, not a Disney blonde. The wide undulant mouth drinks in her world like oxygen; the hazel eyes reflect a bent and wavering light.
May 12, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Compromising Positions Compromising Positions
Your movie reviewer has been reading Colin MacCabe's excellent book on Jean-Luc Godard and pondering its discussion of France after World War II.
Apr 28, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Counterfeiter The Counterfeiter
As celluloid guinea pig for the American left, I am perfectly willing to report on the effects of exposure to this month's pop hit, Sin City.
Apr 14, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Gangs of Shanghai Gangs of Shanghai
The scene is Shanghai, or Busby Berkeley's dream of it: a Chinese city of the 1930s, teeming on the outskirts with rickety tenement compounds, bustling in its business district...
Mar 31, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Tipsy Turvy Tipsy Turvy
Like a melodrama or a political tract--genres it sometimes resembles, in an honorable way--Jonathan Nossiter's documentary Mondovino has a villain you can hiss at.
Mar 16, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Rock the Casbah Rock the Casbah
What might it mean to call a film indispensable? Perhaps not much. At base level, we'd merely be asserting that other films (maybe the vast majority) are candidates for the garba...
Mar 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Constantine Constantine
About two-thirds of the speaking characters in Constantine are either demons or angels.
Feb 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
My Life as a Man My Life as a Man
I've heard Argentines say that Buenos Aires is more densely populated by psychoanalysts than anyplace else in the world.
Feb 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Blood Simple Blood Simple
Half a century has passed since Manny Farber wrote in these pages about underground films, by which he meant the urban crime movies watched by male loiterers near the Greyhound s...
Jan 20, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans