Ghost World

Different Tongues: 10 Foreign Language Songs That Rule the World

A couple of caveats to this list: first, it actually includes more than 10 songs. Since one is sung primarily in English and another isn't technically a "foreign" language, they're considered halfsies, making up one whole. Also, no songs sung in Spanish are on this list. I'm not saying Spanish isn ... More >>

Gasland

NYFF: Brian DePalma's Passion & Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha

Here's Nick Pinkerton on two highly anticipated films from NYFF's main slate: Brian De Palma's Passion and Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha: Brian De Palma and Noah Baumbach have become thick as thieves--odd when one considers that the two filmmakers' bodies of work seem, on the surface, to have positive ... More >>

Junior Mack

Riff Raff+Mayhem Lauren+WC Kids+Farrington G

Vampires, All of Them: On Dark Shadows and God Bless America

Lana Del Rey Just Wants to Be Loved

WONDER MAN

Daniel Clowes discusses his new book

Thora Birch's Last Interview Before Getting Fired

​As you may know, Thora Birch was all set to appear as Lucy in an off-Broadway production of Dracula until the producers showed their fangs and axed her last week. As The Times reported, supposedly they felt that Thora's father/manager--an ex-porn star--had threatened an actor not to massage ... More >>

Born Modern: The Life and Design of Alvin Lustig; Jorge Queiroz at Sikkema Jenkins and Co.

Best in Show

Killer Instincts, Bad Knees

Helen Mirren will cut you, and other awesome old-people things, in Red

EGGS AND BUSCEMI

Chillin' With the Weasel in Brooklyn

A Year in Comics and Graphic Novels

Criminal masterminds, shoehorn worshippers, President McCain

But Is It Art?

Cranky satirists too cool for School

Paint It Black

Zwigoff and Clowes's caustic college comedy is a portrait of the artist as a young scumbag

Vision Quest

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

Looking for Blind Joe Death

Earthly appetites: The brilliant and curious career of steel-string demigod John Fahey

Letters

Cracked Mirror

Shallow subgenre's latest has a knack for cubist creatures, but favors flash over thought

You Better Watch Out: This Santa's Got a Brand-New Fuckstick

The Secret Lives of File Clerks

Self-Promoting, Anti-Careerist Comix Hero Harvey Pekar Gets the Biopic He Deserves

Graphic Content

The Tragi-Comics Story of Fantagraphics

Unnatural Selection

Evaluating a Movie Lover's Chances of Survival at a Topsy-Turvy Sundance

Outside and In

Teenage Wasteland? Not in These Shows.

Painting à la Mode

Holy Ghost World

Moulin Raj

Bully for Bollywood

With 'Lagaan,' the Indian Movie Industry Is Poised to Cross Over

The Last Poke Chop

Lux et Veritas

NY Mirror

J. Hoberman's Top 10

The American Dreams

Patriotic Critics Boost Gross Domestic Product

NY Mirror

Heritage Cinema

The Secret History of the Sunshine Theater

Lost in America

In Between Days

Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff Ghostwrite Teen Limbo

Crouching Pussycats, Hidden Gems

Moviegoers Avoid Big-Budget Pitfalls

Pazz & Jop Preview

Trivial Necessities

How to Win Friends and Influence People