Movie Review | 'The Inner Life of Martin Frost': The Affairs of a Novelist
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The style of âThe Inner Life of Martin Frostâ is aggressively literary, with plummy third-person narration that over-interrogates every development.
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What happens when idealism becomes power? That question is the driving force of Jeremy Kaganâs inert yet strangely compelling film âGoldaâs Balcony.â
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âDoc,â a nonfiction feature about the life of the novelist, inventor and cult figure Harold Louis Humes, is one part cultural analysis, three parts home movie.
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The movie is more of an intellectual exercise than an emotionally resonant experience.
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There is art, and there is money. The twain seldom meet. Or, to steal a line from David Thomson, author of the eminently useful reference work "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film" (Knopf, 1,008 pages, &#36;22.95), just out in paperback, there is "Chinatown," and then there are "umpteen possible future 'Mission: Impossibles."'
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Should the hero  die at  the end  of  Mani Shankar's intriguing and authentic espionage  drama
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The actor-director delivers another soul-stirring film.
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The four-hour HBO miniseries focuses on the British ruler's affairs of the heart.
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Arts & entertainment: What's the best way to turn a book into a film script? Ronald Harwood, who adapted The Pianist, shares the secrets of his success.
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In a wise new novel, life happens, haphazardly
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A medium breaks the bonds of time and expectation to find its inner razzle-dazzle.
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There comes the moment in the career of many directors when they are compelled to tell the story of a great man in whose life they seem to see a glimmer of their own image.
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Much of the dialogue in &quot;Closer,&quot; written by Patrick Marber and directed by Mike Nichols, is as pointed, cold and sharp as an icicle.
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Understanding director David Lynch's  films is never easy.
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The Culture Project's play about British detainees in Cuba exerts an icy visceral charge that is never achieved by flashier satire like Tim Robbins's "Embedded."
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Christopher Marloweâs âEdward IIâ tells the story of sexual obsession, religious power and the intersection of the political and personal lives of a flawed leader.
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'Cassandra's Dream,' starring Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell, explores the seamy underside of upper-class British culture. But what we're left with is more ordinary than horrifying.