Movie Review | 'Wrestling With Angels': The Artist as Empath and Public Intellectual
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As informative as it is, this documentary portrait of the playwright Tony Kushner doesnÂt have time to do more than scratch the surface of its fascinating subject.
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Despite its flaws, 'The Great Debaters' is inspirational, intelligent, and moving.
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In the intriguingly layered documentary âOrthodox Stance,â a determined young boxer strives to prove that the laws of God and the laws of the ring need not be at odds.
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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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âChuck Close,â about the painter, photographer and printmaker by the documentary filmmaker Marion Cajori, truly excels in its depiction of the physical process of making art.
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Having tapped into reserves of great love or shocking hubris, the Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira revisits Luis BuÃ±uelâs classic with âBelle Toujours.â
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Yaron Zilberman's moving documentary approaches the Holocaust from a fresh, intimate perspective.
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'Pan's Labyrinth' is a transcendent film celebrating the imagination's power to triumph over cruelty and evil.
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The film funnyman is trying to rebound from a career slump with a new thriller - and a new spiritual path. Joel Stein peeks into the eternal weirdness of Jim Carrey's mind
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Written and directed by Andrew Bujalski, this wonderful independent film wonÂt save or change your life, but it may make your heart swell. Its aim is modest and true.
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An invigorating, funny and  moving portrait of a Hollywood hero, the new documentary  &quot;Trumbo&quot; brings the blacklist to life from the inside --  focusing on what it was like to live in movie industry exile  and the wisdom gained in the aftermath for one particularly  fiery artist. Prospects on the documentary circuit are strong,  limited only by a subject that moviegoers might assume to be  more narrow than it is.
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The film has many an interesting nugget about it.
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Judd Apatow scores big hit with his tender observations of everyday life
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The Metropolitan Museumâs show offers a supremely clear account of his maturation from brilliant, methodical young artist to a deeper, more lyrical, less predictable one.
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Arts & entertainment: Errol Morris is a fearless documentary-maker. But is his new film too soft on US army abuses?
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.
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Eve Ensler, whose "Vagina Monologues" became a worldwide theatrical juggernaut, has followed up with an equally canny and insightful examination of the female body and psyche.