Maurice (Peter O'Toole) is a highly regarded, aging British actor in a familiar, Odd Couple-esque relationship with Ian (Leslie Phillips), his doddering best friend and a fellow thespian from ba  

With the announcement of the 79th Annual Academy Award nominees Jan. 23, globalization seemingly emerged as the signature issue spurring voting members of the Academy. Past Oscar nominee Salma H  

Cincinnati World Cinema, despite the all-embracing title, has had no fixed home for most of its five-year existence. Floating no more, CWC is now the resident film programmer at the Cincinnati Ar  

Serious film culture once was a rarefied thing, the domain of university programs, international periodicals like Britain's Sight & Sound and intellectual theorists like France's Andre Bazin.   

Naomi Watts is one of the best actresses alive. From her breakthrough performance in David Lynch's 2001 mindbender Mulholland Dr. to the behemoth that was King Kong, Watts is a consistently com  

The portrayal of history's monstrous human beings -- and God knows there are plenty of them -- is hard for movies to do well. Make them too terrible and they become almost campy in their extremi  

Leaning into the back cushion of the large couch in his hotel suite, a tired Edward Norton gives a slight and perhaps defensive laugh. He's just been called a "Sinologist." "Of sorts, yeah,  

Alfonso Cuarón is a filmmaker of rare versatility and vision, a man equally adept with the intimate, sexually frank material of Y tu mamá también as he his within the confines of a  

How often has a film attempted to seriously stir our olfactory perceptions, to connect us to the power, the very essence of this sense? Better yet, how would a filmmaker approximate the experience  

JASON GARGANO 1. Children of Men Gloriously crafted and affectingly acted, Alfonso Cuaron's warning shot of a thriller takes on the pressing issues of the day -- immigration, the environmen  

Little Children, a poignant and subtly humorous dissection of suburban American life directed by In the Bedroom's Todd Field, includes the best single scene in a movie this year. Ronald McGorvey  

Vertigo Comics, a division of DC and home of Superman and Batman, arranged to produce the graphic novelization of Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain, a difficult project, especially for a studio b  

At 57, Pedro Almodóvar is the only contemporary European director to have a large, devoted American audience awaiting each new film in the way that the art-house and college cinema patrons o  

The Good Shepherd is the best Martin Scorsese film since Goodfellas. The brooding, thoughtful script from Eric Roth (The Insider, Munich) examines the early days of the Central Intelligence Agency  

We walk side by side through life, but we might never fully understand one another's worlds: those who embrace musicals and those who don't. For some, the unabashed emotionalism of swingin', si