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Previous Articles on Film

FILM REVIEWS (Also see Film Criticism and History)

COMPLEX NATURE

Today's environmental-film festivals feature a new breed of documentary offering nuanced narratives about intricate ecologies, writes Randy Malamud. (4/25/2008)

HITCHCOCK'S MUSIC

Recent books on music in the films of John Ford and Alfred Hitchcock are helping film scholars learn the score, writes Thomas Doherty. (12/14/2007)

BEOWULF

Never Mind Grendel. Can Beowulf Conquer the 21st-Century Guilt Trip? (12/7/2007)

I'M NOT THERE

6 Characters in Search of an Artist (11/23/2007)

BLACK BOOK

Sleeping With the Enemy in Verhoeven's 'Black Book' (4/13/2007)

AN UNREASONABLE MAN

Giving the Left Somewhere to Go (1/26/2007)

FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS

Suspended in Time (11/10/2006)

THE DA VINCI CODE

Romancing the 'Code' (6/9/2006)

ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL

Art for Snark's Sake (5/19/2006)

ALEXANDER

Alexander: Great Then, Grating Now (12/3/2004)

SHE HATE ME

Spike Lee's Blind Spots on Lesbianism (8/6/2004)

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE

A More Sinister 'Manchurian Candidate' (7/30/2004)

THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST

'The Passion': They Know Not What They Watch (3/19/2004)

THE HUMAN STAIN

'Human Stain' From Page to Screen: Self-Invention to Self-Revelation (10/31/2003)

SYLVIA

Sylvia and Ted, a Potboiler (10/17/2003)

THE DANGEROUS LIVES OF ALTAR BOYS

Lambs and Tigers (7/26/2002)

ABOUT A BOY and ATTACK OF THE CLONES

About Boys, Not About Women (5/31/2002)

SCOTLAND, PA.

A Fast-Food Shakespeare (4/19/2002)

SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS

Revisiting a Noir Classic (4/5/2002)

WE WERE SOLDIERS

Benevolent Soldier, Rotten War (3/22/2002)

LAST ORDERS

'Last Orders': the Un-'Citizen Kane' (3/8/2002)

CHARLOTTE GRAY

'Charlotte Gray': a Woman Unrevealed (2/15/2002)

IRIS

An 'Iris' Stripped of Her Brilliance (2/15/2002)

A BEAUTIFUL MIND

Exploiting a Beautiful Mind (1/25/2002)

ALI

Ali Was a Bad Man Once, and Now Again (1/11/2002)

APOCALYPSE NOW

Coppola, 'Apocalypse Now,' and the Ambivalent 70's (8/3/2001)

CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON

'Crouching Tiger': the Rebirth of Myth (3/23/2001)

BUTTERFLY

Coming of Age in the Spanish Civil War (3/16/2001)

HANNIBAL

Celluloid Cannibals That Feed Our Darkest Fears (3/2/2001)

THIRTEEN DAYS

'Thirteen Days' Doesn't Add Up (2/2/2001)

O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?

In the Coen Brothers' New Film, the Dark, Utopian Music of the American South (2/2/2001)

QUILLS

Philip Kaufman's Artful 'Quills' (11/10/2000)

THE PERFECT STORM and PATRIOT GAMES

'The Perfect Storm' Is Just Soggy, but 'The Patriot' Is a Betrayal (7/28/2000)

SHAFT

In Reinventing an Icon, 'Shaft' Wises Up a Genre (7/7/2000)

THE END OF THE AFFAIR

'The End of the Affair': Neil Jordan's Comeback (1/28/2000)

AMERICAN BEAUTY

'American Beauty': No Joy in the Gilded Suburbs (10/29/1999)

CRITICISM AND HISTORY

Thus Spake Stanley Kubrick (8/3/2007)

A Photographer's Hairy Encounters (11/3/2006)

DVD Access to the Avant-Garde (3/3/2006)

Rural Space: Queer America's Final Frontier (1/13/2006)

Film, Philosophy, and Terrence Malick's 'The New World' (1/6/2006)

Border Crossings: the New Middle Eastern Cinema (11/25/2005)

No Longer Home Movies (9/2/2005)

Foreign Bodies in the Films of Claire Denis (7/1/2005)

Kieslowski's Inescapable Moral Horizons (2/18/2005)

An Inspired Collection Honors a Founder of the Indie Movement (1/14/2005)

Offbeat Directors' Sophistication Isn't Always Accompanied by Emotional Maturity (11/12/2004)

For Director Mike Leigh, the Personal and Political Are One and the Same (10/8/2004)

Musical Redemption in Hitchcock's 'Rear Window' (6/4/2004)

Documentaries Cast a Cold Eye on Corporate America (5/7/2004)

A Neo-Noir Filmmaker Echoes a Philosopher's Quest for Truth (11/14/2003)

Depicting Mental Illness (6/27/2003)

Black Angels (6/6/2003)

Hollywood's Pre-Blockbuster Golden Era (5/16/2003)

Costa-Gavras's Moral Journeys, From Z to A (2/14/2003)

'Spider' Reveals a More Nuanced Cronenberg (1/31/2003)

Douglas Sirk: Magnificent Obsession (11/15/2002)

Preposterous Plots Plague the Cineplex (9/20/2002)

Western Drama, Cold-War Allegory (9/13/2002)

Leni Riefenstahl: Ethics of an Auteur (8/9/2002)

The Writing Teacher on the Screen (5/10/2002)

On Screen, On Stage: the Double Virtuosity of Andrew Bovel (2/1/2002)

Echoes of Neglect by a Neglected Filmmaker (11/30/2001)

The Sounds of Silents (10/12/2001)

Why Do Film Scholars Ignore Movie Violence? (8/10/2001)

The Auteur of Auteurism (3/30/2001)

And the Best Picture Is ... Not Nominated (3/23/2001)

In Movie Adaptations, Changing Stories to Keep Their Essence (2/9/2001)

A Hong Kong Studio Has Wide Influence, but an Uncertain Future (12/1/2000)

In Hollywood, George Cukor Made Movies, Not Waves (11/24/2000)

Billy Wilder: Ready for a Close-Up (11/3/2000)

How 'Festival Overload Syndrome' Affects Critics (8/4/2000)

Collisions of Cultures Create Fascinating Noise (4/14/2000)

Therapy's 'Talking Cure' Still Works -- in Hollywood (2/11/2000)

Innocence Lost: American Movies Revisit Jazz (9/3/1999)

How Hollywood Trains Us Not to Recognize Interesting Movies (4/9/1999)

Political Satire in the Age of 'Letterman' (7/10/1998)

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