The Marx Brothers, Fritz Lang and 'Before Sunset'
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Universal's "Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection" is a stunning, indispensable set of the first five Marx Brothers features.
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Grande doppiatore, fu voce Brando, Newman, Lemmon e Sellers
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The actor Max von Sydow in his most paternal role.
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Thank heaven for the  Irish and the Italians. In these sensitive times, we'd have no  crime stories without them. I should hasten to add there also  are law-abiding, upstanding, public-spirited Irish and  Italians. Just don't try looking for them on NBC's "The Black  Donnellys."
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Tycho:  The memories of those who came of age in the eighties have become a kind of ghastly rummage sale, a tilled up cemetery where icons lay tilted over bones draped in ancient finery.  Pork caught a preview of Transformers on Monday, and he claims that it is not, in fact, heresy - but I don't know how calibrated our respective tastes are.  I was going to make a statement about how any constantly shifting image could entertain him, enthrall him, command him, until I realized that this viewing was late at night, in the twilight period we call Pork After Hours, when his medication wanes and his blood is frenzied by some dark moon.  For him to have focused on anything at any time after nine o'clock is actually high praise.
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Global politics, seniors in love, fantastical fairy tales, technical glitches and the Weinstein brothers
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The surfaces of Cao  Hamburger's fine film, "The Year My Parents Went on Vacation"  (O Ano em Que Meus Pais Sairam de Ferias) are clean and concise  and filled with keen observations about day-to-day life in a  multiethnic quarter of Sao Paulo in 1970. This allows the  director all sorts of opportunities to explore the rich subtext  of his film -- themes about alienation, community and a life in  exile.
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The videocassette in film: an unsettling innovation, a romanticized artifact, an LP in an MP3 world.
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BERLIN, Feb 8 (IPS) - The 58th International Berlin Film Festival was  given a rousing start when Martin Scorsese's vibrant Rolling  Stones documentary 'Shine a Light' was chosen to kick  off the ten-day movie extravaganza Thursday evening.
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The fascination of this documentary is the light it throws on Nureyevâs life and career before his escape from the Soviet Union, through candid observations by close friends as well as colleagues in Nureyevâs youthful Leningrad years.
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New books on casting films, Stephen BaldwinÂs faith, Jimmy Stewart, Ellen Burstyn and life in old Hollywood.
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It has been well recorded that the mid-nineties are best known for sudden popularity of independent cinema, but independent from what? The term "indie" is as slippery when applied to films as it is to music. The studio at the vanguard of this "revolution" was Miramax, which was long a subsidiary of Disney, and as for the "revolution" itself, it unleashed more painful and derivative Pulp Fiction clones than it did anything truly revolutionary. It was bled dry, turned inside out, repackaged, and sold back to the masses until it became the paradigm of unhipness. This seems to be the nature of all revolutions, from the Soviets to the Sixties; the bullshit always comes full circle.     While it's easy to be cynical of all so-called revolutions in hindsight, what one can't be cynical about is the intense enthusiasm audiences had for the so-called independent cinema of this era. To every person who ever dreamed of being in the director's chair, it seemed like all one needed to have the new hit movie was a vast knowledge of pop culture, the ability to write pages worth of rambling dialogue, and a Visa card.
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In the hours just before dawn on Dec. 16, 1944 -- 60 years ago today -- Art Schreckengost was trying to get some sleep. It was difficult in combat fatigues and the cold.
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"Legong: Dance of the Virgins" is a delirious blend of sentimental fiction and ethnological fact. Also, Orson Welles's "It's All True" and "Spider-Man 2."
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Arts & entertainment: In Latin America, populist movements are rising up against western intervention. John Pilger explains why only the cinema was big enough to tell their story.
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1. The 76ers and Warner Bros., as part of the NBA&#39;s Read to Achieve program, hosted an advance screening Thursday of the upcoming Tom Hanks film, The Polar Express.
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Okay, a few days ago I wrote a review of the Diving Bell and the Butterfly saying it could be the best picture of 2007, but even so you might want to skip it because the truth it reveals might be something you don't want to look at. It's a fine picture, but a tough one. Another wonderful but tough picture is No Country for Old Men. It's one of those movies that leaves so much unresolved that you walk out of the theater not sure which foot goes in front of the other. On a second viewing it makes much more sense. The world isn't necessarily as crazy as it at first seemed. But there's a movie that is also incredibly well crafted, and gets better every time you think about it -- Juno. I didn't realize how much I liked it until I heard someone compare it to Little Miss Sunshine, a movie that I did not enjoy, unlike everyone else it seems. I loved Juno because it organizes its sweetness into love for one person, the star of the movie, Juno. But everyone, no matter how dorky or clueless (and some of the adults are truly dorky and clueless) shares the love. The movie has a wholeness, an unqualified goodness, you not only walk out of the theater in love with Juno and everyone else in the movie, but your heart is warmed for everyone, including yourself. It's that good.  All three remind how good movies can be. And there were some not-too-bad movies at the end of 2007, for example, Atonement, which some didn't like, but I did. 3:10 to Yuma is a well-crafted genre picture. Michael Clayton was a perfect showcase for the talents of George Clooney. Great acting and a simple story in The Savages.  Which one was the best? I'd hate to have to choose!