Undercover of the Night Undercover of the Night
Reviews of the films Black Book and Zodiac.
Apr 5, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
That’s the Way of the World That’s the Way of the World
Reviews of U-Carmen, Offside and Killer of Sheep, arguably one of the best films of 2007.
Mar 29, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
A Mannerist in Madrid A Mannerist in Madrid
Jacopo Tintoretto outshines Michelangelo, but his work is rarely seen outside of Venice.
Mar 29, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Soft-Core Sexism Soft-Core Sexism
If movies reflect our shared consensus about right and wrong, Black Snake Moan speaks volumes about twenty-first-century America.
Mar 15, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Lakshmi Chaudhry
The Things They Carried The Things They Carried
Reviews of The Host, The Wind That Shakes the Barley and The Namesake.
Mar 12, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Winter Light Winter Light
Stuart Klawans reviews Into Great Silence, Sátántangó and the Museum of Modern Art's retrospective of Abbas Kiarostami's films.
Feb 26, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Remembering Norma Rae Remembering Norma Rae
Why does Hollywood render unions and the working class invisible?
Feb 26, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Robert Nathan and Jo-Ann Mort
Liberalism’s Lost Libretto Liberalism’s Lost Libretto
Tom Stoppard's epic Coast of Utopia speaks as much to the state of the American left as it does to the roots of Russia's revolution.
Feb 22, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
The Spy Who Loved Me The Spy Who Loved Me
Reviews of The Lives of Others and Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams.
Feb 9, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Book of Questions The Book of Questions
In a book-length essay on the novel, Milan Kundera foresees the curtain of literary history drawing to a close.
Feb 6, 2007 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz