Thanks for the Use of the Hall

Jang Kun-jae's debut feature, which took the Dragons and Tigers award at Vancouver 2009, wastes no time announcing its filmmaker's a...

While watching John Flynn's 1980 Defiance recently, I noted a storytelling pattern that has been honored almost without exception by co...

Hawks fans have always been divided on Gentlemen Prefer Blondes : some rate it high, others have trouble seeing much of Hawks' personali...

Many have noted that Howard Hawks' comedies are often based on the disorientation and humiliation of the protagonist. It's less fre...

Wow, here's an interesting twist on the (admittedly loosely defined) mumblecore concept: lightly guided, improvisatory performances, enc...

One of the best films on the 2009 festival circuit, Guo Xiaolu's She, a Chinese , will have its New York premiere at the Asian American ...

A piece I wrote on Tsuchi (Earth) , a celebrated 1939 film by Japanese director Tomu Uchida, has been published at the Mubi Notebook .