Magnificent Obsessions Magnificent Obsessions
This week, all true movie lovers will rush to see a violent and fantastic special-effects thriller, in which a character endowed with uncanny powers rips through the veil of il...
May 15, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Kurdish Delight Kurdish Delight
International cinema has an irresistible new pair of reprobates: middle-aged brothers who can do no right in their lives and no wrong before the camera.
May 1, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Reel Men Reel Men
The film begins with a federal marshal intoning "This is a very difficult time for our country" and ends with the singing of the national anthem, performed before Rudy Giuliani...
Apr 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Anatomy Lesson The Anatomy Lesson
Matthew Barney's Cremaster cycle
Apr 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Death in Helsinki Death in Helsinki
OK, let's say that life goes on.
Apr 3, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Left Coast Notes Left Coast Notes
While Michael Moore was leaving the stage of the Kodak Theater during the seventy-fifth annual Academy Awards ceremony, after calling George W.
Mar 26, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Marc Cooper
‘For the Monkey’ ‘For the Monkey’
When James Agee wrote in these pages sixty years ago, he often complained of the paltriness of this or that movie, as judged against the events of the day.
Mar 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Dashboard Confessional Dashboard Confessional
A few years ago, when moviegoers in this country were just beginning to learn about Abbas Kiarostami, I heard a crowd of New Yorkers berate him for having put a snatch of Vival...
Mar 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Apartheid: The Musical Apartheid: The Musical
If you've never watched Nelson Mandela dance, then you should know that he does a modified Locomotion, pumping his elbows like pistons to the immense, loving amusement of his p...
Feb 19, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Global Visions Global Visions
Since few of us at The Nation speak Thai, I'm going to refer to my favorite filmmaker of the month as Joe, which is the name actually used in this country by Apichatpong Weeras...
Feb 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans