Thanks for the Use of the Hall

Following Stephen Frears' career has not been much fun for me for the last twenty years or so, but I feel as if I owe that much to the d...

Less and less sure that anyone is reading this blog, I think I'll recommend a few films I haven't even seen. The Hola Mexico Film Fe...

When I first saw Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne's L'Enfant (The Child) at the 2005 New York Film Festival, I didn't completely gr...

The FIPRESCI web site Undercurrent , edited by Chris Fujiwara , has just published a new issue that includes a special section on John Ford ...

The Auteurs' Notebook has published my short piece on one of my favorite films, Ernst Lubitsch's 1946 Cluny Brown .

Iain Stott's blog, the One-Line Review , is conducting a poll of " The 50 Greatest Films ," and I have submitted my entry . U...

No two people who call themselves auteurists will agree on what the term implies. I persist in regarding auteurism as an aesthetic taste, o...