Catherine Deneuve

Perfect, Placid, Mad: Deneuve's Unraveling, 50 years Later

Beloved

The Young Girls of Rochefort

Donkey Skin

The Best Hairdos In Hollywood History

Female division. In the talking era. According to Michael Musto. Feel free to do your usual whining and add your own faves.

My Five Favorite Movie Actresses

​That is, if this was 1969--and I'm not convinced that it isn't. (5) Catherine Deneuve She looks like a French Barbie crossed with the Infant of Prague, her hair never moves, and she's so wry and chic that she struck me as the most brilliant import since crepes. My favorite movie: the screwb ... More >>

Alec Baldwin Isn't Scary Anymore!

Success has mellowed him—and he's actually funny

Alec Baldwin Isn't Scary Anymore

​CLICK HERE for my report on a gala Alec Baldwin tribute, where no one brought up his old bad press, all caught up in the glow of his current success. And I was one of them! Sorry, but the man can act! I also take you behind the scenes of the Sister Act musical with co-producer Whoopi Goldbe ... More >>

Don't Touch the White Woman

BAM Honors the Peerless Catherine Deneuve

Belle de Jour

Repulsion

The Hunger

Belle de Jour

Mississippi Mermaid

'New French Films' at BAM Not Unmissable

The lackluster latest from France

Your Personal Favorite Movie

​Tell me a movie you call your own. You know, the one that speaks to you the most directly and powerfully, even if just as a wonderful piece of escapist entertainment. I do NOT mean a flick everyone on the planet loves. I'm not looking to hear "I adore The Godfather trilogy" or "I really enjo ... More >>

Truffaut's Mississippi Mermaid at BAM

Spring Guide: Wells Tower Offers A Strange Way To Squeeze A Dog

The dark menagerie of Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

French Connections at 14th "Rendez-Vous"

Hits, misses, and a whole lotta crazy at this year's showcase of new Gallic cinema

Catherine's Caffe Opens in Fort Greene

Bond Villain Comes Home For A Christmas Tale, Recieves No Solace

Desplechin's A Christmas Tale is the Gift this Season Needs

This touching family comedy is a holiday feast, with extra stuffing

CRIMINAL MINDS

France’s most hardened outlaws come to Film Forum

Cannes Class of 2008

A jury divided unites around Laurent Cantet’s schoolhouse drama

Flick Chick

Masha Tupitsyn's stories lose it to the movies

Festival Express

New York Film Festival highlights

Wrinkles in Time

Poetic French image-maker moves on to high-toned soaps

Screen Test

A casserole of circumstances congeals around two love affairs

Catherine the Great

A pair of classics starring a '60s goddess of light

Vision Quest

Get your avant-garde fix with plenty of experimental cinema this season

Dirty, Pretty Things

An interview with Simon Doonan about his nastiest, favorite memories

Welles, Lacan and Borges Unite in Poker-Faced 1997 Meta-Mystery

Classic Fairy Tale Gone Wrong: Grieving King Lusts After Daughter

NY Mirror

Foreign Legion

Annual French buffet offers an array of international flavors, both original and orthodox

Soft Skin: Freudian Lust and Costumed Silliness in Demy's May Day Musical

Answers to the World's Hardest Movie Quiz

Drenched With Feeling

A whirl of its own: Demy's Cherbourg sings of a town with pity—and every other emotion

Smitten Scribes and Wayward Women Conduct Affairs to Remember

NY Mirror

Fling Time in a Quiet Town

'8 Mile' Lines and On-the-Job Bondage in Toronto

Untouched by an Angel

Bachelor Father Knows Best

NY Mirror

Rules of Engagement

Dyke Jones? Pussy Galore!

Stalin for Time

Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember

Women on Top

Girlstown