Allen's `Dream' examines life's savagery
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Woody Allen's latest film touches on all the things he likes to ponder Â that there's no God, that life is savage and fleeting, that anyone potentially can get away with unspeakable acts if they don't have a conscience to bother them.
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Most kids discard dreams of becoming an astronaut as fast as they abandon childhood toys. But when the kid is Paul Allen, and he grows from geek with smudged eyeglasses to one of the richest men in the world, dreams can become reality.
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Death, beauty and the persistence of art are the vast topics addressed in Heddy Honigmannâs frustrating documentary âForever.â
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The enduring theme of William Friedkinâs 1980 film âCruisingâ is the reality of evil and its uncomfortable proximity to sex.
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There is plenty of sorrow to be found in âInto the Wild.â But though the filmâs structure may be tragic, its spirit is anything but.
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This stage version of Kurt Vonnegutâs antiwar 1969 masterpiece faithfully retains the novelâs pivotal moments. But woe to the spectator unfamiliar with the material.
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Wednesdayâs performance of âWhat if Saori Had a Party?,â about dreams versus reality, is surprisingly intricate but more artful than engrossing.
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The documentary âDeep Waterâ begins like a Boyâs Own adventure tale but ends up more akin to tragedy.
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âChildren of Men,â the superbly directed political thriller by Alfonso CuarÃ³n, may be something of a bummer, but itâs the kind of glorious bummer that lifts you to the rafters.
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Risk takers like Steve Fossett stir controversy and fascination by pushing the limits, but the pursuit of a daring dream can also be the quickest way to find a nightmare.
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ALICE SPRINGS, Australia  - Aborigine Daryl Allen, 60, sits cross-legged in the dirt dreaming of the good times when his outback people lived hunting kangaroo and working as cattlemen, instead of drinking themselves to death.
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Mira Nairâs âThe Namesakeâ conveys a palpable sense of people as living, breathing creatures who are far more complex than their words might indicate.
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Mr. Allen's unrelentingly glum drama at the Atlantic Theater Company about defeated dreamers in 1950's Brooklyn is filled with gloomy clichÃ©s.
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Cormac McCarthyÂs new book would be pure misery if not for its stunning, savage beauty.
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Andrew Motion, Britainâs current poet laureate, has written a childhood memoir that is Arcadian in the golden sense, though not without pain.
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âThere Will Be Blood,â Paul Thomas Andersonâs epic American nightmare, arrives belching fire and brimstone and damnation to Hell.
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Independent filmmaker Ken Loach hopes his new film will open people's eyes to economic exploitation.