Movies: East Meets West in 'The Namesake'
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Mira Nair's brings Jhumpa Lahiri's novel 'The Namesake' to life on the screen with details as simple but wonderful as a bowl of Rice Krispies.
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Eastern Promises, David Cronenberg's latest film, depending on which way you look at it, is either a horrifyingly cool exposition of the uncaring value system in a modern day mafia family or a devastating thriller with internalised ramifications for all us 'ordinary' people.
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Tom Coash has written a small, sensitive romantic drama that also tries to be about the tangled relationship between East and West.
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An intersibling death match reminiscent of Sam Shepard's "True West," the independent feature "Solitude" details a tortured, possibly incestuous relationship.
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This Australian film could be described by the story's "Rocky"-like outlines, but there is a gripping, downbeat family drama at the movie's core.
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Anthony Minghella's new film, "Breaking and Entering," focuses on the clash of cultures that churns beneath the surface of contemporary London.
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The film now rests its hopes on an overseas success to make a profit
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Sidney Rittenberg's 35 years in China provide a unique perspective on the country and its famed leader.
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Director Mohit Hussain chooses a contemporary subject to narrate the story of his debut film.
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A new movie tackles the roundup of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
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Kim Chan, like many character actors, has a face that is more familiar than his name.
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"Bride and Prejudice," a new film by  the director of the hit "Bend It Like Beckham," tries to speak  to a global audience by refracting an iconic English novel  through the prism of the Indian diaspora.
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Jia Zhang-ke, the director of âStill Life,â looks at his country and sees an enormous, rapidly changing movie set.
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Irrfan Khan talks about his role in The Namesake.
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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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'The Kingdom' offers up a foreign-policy lesson amid lots of gunfire. A London woman becomes deeply enmeshed in the inner workings of the Russian mafia in 'Eastern Promises.'
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Alain Corneau's psychodrama is the latest movie to explore (and to exploit) Western fascination with Japan.