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  • October Country

    By Karina Longworth

    The white, working-class, Upstate New York dead-end of Mohawk Valley is surely not the milieu metal frontman Al Jourgensen had in mind when he... More >>

  • Valentine's Day

    By Karina Longworth

    In Pretty Woman, director Garry Marshall's personal cinematic high score, the opening credits close (and the closing credits open) with the voice... More >>

  • Bene Brocani Schifano at Anthology and To Die for Tano at Cinema Village

    By Nick Pinkerton

    Roma, 1970, cosmopolis on the Tiber, where Yankee dollars bought amphetamines and film stock—here, Franco Brocani's Necropolis (1970) was... More >>

  • Videocracy

    By Ella Taylor

    A stale vibe is only one of the problems pervading Erik Gandini's documentary about the pathological symbiosis between unregulated media control... More >>

  • American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein

    By Ella Taylor

    Noam Chomsky reveres him. Leon Wieseltier hates him. Alan Dershowitz called him an anti-Semite and applied successful pressure to deny him tenure... More >>

  • Barefoot to Timbuktu

    By Vadim Rizov

    In 1966, Swiss painter Ernst Aebi moved to the U.S. and began making money off his Bosch-on-acid nightmare drawings, then made a great deal more... More >>

  • 3 Idiots

    By David Chute

    A superstar for more than two decades, Aamir Khan has never been more popular than he is today, in his mid-forties: His 2008 release Ghajini... More >>

  • Ajami

    By Ella Taylor

    A contemporary crime drama edged with Greek tragedy, Ajami is an untidy, despairing, oddly exhilarating joint venture by writer-directors Scandar... More >>

  • Promised Lands

    By Michael Atkinson

    As we well know, they don't make Susan Sontags anymore—hot, newsmaking ur-intellectuals whose essays were events to equal their subjects,... More >>

  • Film Forum's Karen Cooper on the Secret to Her Success

    By Melissa Anderson

    In 1972, at the age of 23, Karen Cooper took over the two-year-old Film Forum when, as she recalls, "it was a little hole-in-the wall on West... More >>

  • Red Riding Trilogy

    By Nick Pinkerton

    Now a 305-minute triptych film, Red Riding originated in the novels of Ossett-bred David Peace, written in Tokyo and published 1999–2002.... More >>

  • 'Storm Warnings: Resistance and Reflection in Polish Cinema' at Walter Reade

    By Michael Atkinson

    This moody sample-platter of Polish movies, all made between 1977 and 1982 as the unionizing Solidarity movement gained ground and power, hone in... More >>

  • From Paris With Love

    By Nick Pinkerton

    As personal assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to France, James Reese (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) can keep himself in well-tailored suits and keep his... More >>

  • District 13: Ultimatum

    By Brian Miller

    Less a sequel than a remake of the exhilarating 2006 action flick that introduced parkour, the French run-and-jump urban obstacle sport, to... More >>

  • Shinjuku Incident

    By Brian Miller

    Fresh after his painful buffoonery in The Spy Next Door, Jackie Chan tacks the opposite direction in this tough yet conventional Tokyo-set crime... More >>

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