Tea Time Tea Time
Everyone knows you can't film Remembrance of Things Past, so Raúl Ruiz did it.
Jun 15, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
To Catch a Thief To Catch a Thief
As Woody Allen awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into Jackie Gleason.
Jun 1, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Village Idiots, Then & Now Village Idiots, Then & Now
To watch Lars von Trier's The Idiots is to see a dead dog rise and howl at the moon.
May 11, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Circus Minimus Circus Minimus
According to Gibbon, the emperor Commodus spent the early years of his reign "in a seraglio of three hundred beautiful women and as many boys, of every rank and of every province...
May 3, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
On Tyson vs. Downey On Tyson vs. Downey
I was watching Mike Tyson knock Robert Downey Jr. to the floor when the thought popped into my head, "Is this what I want from a movie?" It was a pressing question.
Apr 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Final Cut on Final Solution? Final Cut on Final Solution?
Since you presumably know the basics about the Holocaust--if you don't, I would suggest that a movie review is no place to learn them--I will jump to the main question about The ...
Apr 20, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Semper Fi, But Why? Semper Fi, But Why?
Were I to tell you that Rules of Engagement features a protracted fistfight between Samuel L.
Apr 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
He Took a Village He Took a Village
In the role of New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell--source and subject alike of Joe Gould's Secret--Stanley Tucci adopts the hesitant drawl of a displaced Southern aristocrat, who ...
Apr 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Legionnaire’s Disease Legionnaire’s Disease
If you squint long enough at Claire Denis's amazing Beau Travail--you'll have to squint, given the African sunlight--you will make out the faint contour of a story.
Mar 30, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Pigeons Home to Roost Pigeons Home to Roost
Star vehicle?
Mar 22, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans