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An extra folded into Film Forum's all-35mm, month-long celebration of "The Newspaper Picture" (April 9 through May 6) celebrates the brashest,... More >>
An exercise in voyeurism, Maren Ade's provocatively titled, superbly performed, emotionally graphic Everyone Else is more fascinating... More >>
Hollywood's voyage to the Third Dimension is continuing apace with announced plans to re-release newly 3-D-ized versions of 2001, Star Wars, and The Passion of the Christ, but the first 3-D musical --... More >>
Oops! Too late for us to make changes to this morning's Voice, we learned about a last-minute change in this week's film releases. Reviewed and advertised in this week's newspaper, Tim Blake Nelson'... More >>
Robert Downey Jr.'s two-fisted boho Sherlock Holmes, newly out on DVD, is likely to last a couple of rounds, but the definitive embodiment of... More >>
Spring break for some, but film school ain't entirely out -- academic symposia are picking up the slack. Wednesday, March 31, Columbia University's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race holds a d... More >>
NYU has money, NYU needs space, NYU says it wants to work with the community. OK, so here are five things NYU can do, only two of which require new construction: 1. Relocate nursing school to St Vi... More >>
A sort of adult fairy tale, in which the real trouble starts after 20 years of marriage, Atom Egoyan's Chloe is posh, cool, and never... More >>
Psychologically rich, unobtrusively minimalist, at once admirably straightforward and slyly comic, Catherine Breillat's Bluebeard is a... More >>
The teenagers had Elvis but, for a brief moment a bit more than half a century ago this spring, Fess Parker's King of the Wild Frontier was the idol of every American six-year-old within range of a TV... More >>
Armond White is miffed that last week I verified what some thought an urban myth by retrieving his 1997 review of Noah Baumbach's Mr. Jealousy from the public library and posting on line it in its ent... More >>
Revived for a week at Film Forum in an excellent restored print, The Prowler (1951) may be the creepiest of classic noirs. Joseph... More >>
Sad, funny, and acutely self-conscious, Noah Baumbach's Greenberg is unafraid to project a downbeat worldview or feature an impossible... More >>
I look at "Playing with Pictures," the small exhibition of Victorian photo-collage tucked in the recesses of the Metropolitan Museum, and I see the participatory future... as well as the remote past, ... More >>
The New York film world was all a twitter yesterday, when an anonymous e-mail went out announcing that New York Press critic Armond White had been disinvited from a critics screening for Greenberg, th... More >>
Mother, Bong Joon-ho's follow-up to The Host—the killer killer-tadpole allegory that was an international gross-out... More >>
Better late than never—a bang-bang pulse-pounder predicated on the Bush administration's deliberate fabrication of WMD in Iraq. Paul... More >>
That distant thunder rumbling throughout last night's Oscar broadcast was not the noise of explosions in Baghdad but the sound of channels turning to reruns of Boston Legal or Bad Boys II, amplified b... More >>
Walt Disney mulled an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland for decades before producing an animated feature in 1951, although by all... More >>
The whole Avatarization meme, with Photoshop-savvy fans recruiting icons (Hugh Laurie, Lil Wayne, Angelina Jolie, John Goodman, Sasha Grey, Mr. Bean et al) into the Na'vi tribe -- peaked around Valent... More >>
The people have spoken: Shutter Island grossed $40.2 million this weekend. Olympic ice-dancing aside, the movie didn't face much competition (no other newbies in the top ten) but, hey, the numbers are... More >>
