Jacques Tati

The Fairy

Robert Sietsema at Dean Street; Lauren Shockey at Bi Lokma

This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema has a gastropub revelation at Dean Street in Prospect Heights, where chef Mike Franzetti "illustrates state-of-the-art principles in gastropub menu construction." Lauren Shockey heads to Bi Lokma for Turkish "chow just like babaanne--er, granny--used to make." ... More >>

Best Films of 1972: Eight 10-Best Lists (And 'The Godfather' Only Makes One of Them!)

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 11, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 films in focus by Andrew Sarris 'Tis the season to grind out 10-best lists, and this is certainly not the year to turn one's back on tradition. Still, there is at least one prominent film critic who ... More >>

Celebrating the Cycle of Life in Le Quattro Volte

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 11, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 films in focus by Andrew Sarris 'Tis the season to grind out 10-best lists, and this is certainly not the year to turn one's back on tradition. Still, there is at least one prominent film critic who ... More >>

Elia Suleiman's Arab-Israeli War Within

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 11, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 films in focus by Andrew Sarris 'Tis the season to grind out 10-best lists, and this is certainly not the year to turn one's back on tradition. Still, there is at least one prominent film critic who ... More >>

Playtime

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 11, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 films in focus by Andrew Sarris 'Tis the season to grind out 10-best lists, and this is certainly not the year to turn one's back on tradition. Still, there is at least one prominent film critic who ... More >>

Old Souls Get a Second Life in True Grit and The Illusionist

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 11, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 films in focus by Andrew Sarris 'Tis the season to grind out 10-best lists, and this is certainly not the year to turn one's back on tradition. Still, there is at least one prominent film critic who ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Jawbox, Pill, Holiday Music Roundup, Best Books of 2009, Avatar, and More

Who had this photo in their office pool a decade ago? Jawbox on Fallon. Photo by Anything Photographic.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla ventures up to 30 Rock to have lunch with Jawbox on the eve of the D.C. punk band's one-off reunion on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, while Jayson G ... More >>

Jacques Tati Retro at MOMA

The director plays straight man in his own comic world

Playtime

The director plays straight man in his own comic world

M. Hulot's Holiday

The director plays straight man in his own comic world

Fall Guide: Juliette Binoche Talks Paris and Dancing

The director plays straight man in his own comic world

Mon Oncle (My Uncle)

The director plays straight man in his own comic world

Winners of the Prix Louis-Delluc at BAM

How do you say 'No losers allowed' in French?

Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

How do you say 'No losers allowed' in French?

Things to Do in Rabat When You're Dead

The CinemaEast Film Festival reels in the latest crop of Middle East movie makers

Rack Focus

The CinemaEast Film Festival reels in the latest crop of Middle East movie makers

Film

The CinemaEast Film Festival reels in the latest crop of Middle East movie makers

Giddy Delirium and Spellbinding Mundanity in French Mini-Retro

The CinemaEast Film Festival reels in the latest crop of Middle East movie makers

Tom Delay

Baggage claim: In Spielberg fable, Hanks's idiot savant takes American customs to heart

The Art of Noise

Kinetic French retro-toon and onomatopoeic Hungarian whatsit beat the curse of subtitles

Fall Film

Kinetic French retro-toon and onomatopoeic Hungarian whatsit beat the curse of subtitles

Computer Love

Kinetic French retro-toon and onomatopoeic Hungarian whatsit beat the curse of subtitles

Desperate Hours

A Palestinian Director’s Ghetto Humor

Everyone Says I Love You

A Palestinian Director’s Ghetto Humor

Money Changes Everything

A Palestinian Director’s Ghetto Humor

Tales from Tativille

A Palestinian Director’s Ghetto Humor

Picture This

Thrillers! Satires! Westerns! Indies! Blockbusters! Sequels!

Wander Land

Thrillers! Satires! Westerns! Indies! Blockbusters! Sequels!

Opera by the Book

Today’s Composers Search for Inspiration in Novels, Plays, and Even Films

Moss Picks Pinto

Today’s Composers Search for Inspiration in Novels, Plays, and Even Films

The Great American Opera

The vast increase in operatic venues reopens an old unsettled question

Guided by Voices

The vast increase in operatic venues reopens an old unsettled question

School of Paris

The vast increase in operatic venues reopens an old unsettled question