Time After Time Time After Time
Let's start with the Morlocks. In the new film version of The Time Machine, the subterranean carnivores are not merely apelike, as in the H.G. Wells novel. They're Planet of the A...
Mar 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
‘Monsoon’ Season ‘Monsoon’ Season
Why, asked my friends and my baffled wife. Why, piped my son. Even the movie critics sitting next to me wanted to know: What perversity drove me to see Hart's War and Rollerball?...
Feb 28, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
A Crowbar to the Face A Crowbar to the Face
Frederick Wiseman has spent a lifetime piecing together sounds and images captured from the daily flow.
Feb 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Hollywood Three The Hollywood Three
When The Majestic was about to be released--it's the movie, you will recall, in which Jim Carrey plays a blacklisted screenwriter who suffers from amnesia--someone asked me to to...
Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
In This Corner… In This Corner…
Scattered chunks of films littered the theaters this holiday season. Except for The Royal Tenenbaums, which I've told you about, there wasn't a whole movie to be found. Or, to sp...
Jan 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Home for the Holidays Home for the Holidays
Director Wes Anderson's 'The Royal Tenenbaums' is full of bittersweet whimsy.
Dec 20, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Static Electricity Static Electricity
Stuart Klwans reviews two films: In the Bedroom, by Todd Field, and The Man Who Wasn't There, by the Coen brothers.
Dec 7, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Afghan Journals Afghan Journals
2 movie reviews: Jung (War) in the Land of the Mujaheddin; Kandahar
Nov 21, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Martian Chronicles The Martian Chronicles
Long before Carrie-Anne Moss rips open Val Kilmer's shirt and begins pounding his chest, providing him with a version of CPR that she must have learned from a Japanese drum troup...
Nov 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans