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Renoir is great at capturing an Impressionist atmosphere on film but this story about the family relations is dramatically inert.

This Dutch film is a darkly nuanced fable that keeps us consistently off-balance.

The Criterion connection, Renoir-style

The Southerner, Jean Renoir's last great film, and the only one to earn him an Academy Award nomination.

Jean Renoir shot it in 1938, just as Hitler's troops were occupying the Sudetenland and Neville Chamberlain and his band of appeasers were bending Europe's back to the whims of the Third Reich. So, you'll forgive him for making such a dark picture.

From biopics to end-of-day thrillers, a look at the films you'll be standing in line for this Christmas.

Searching for a better tomorrow in Aki Kaurismäki's droll tale of immigrants and restaurants

John Singleton and Chris Cooper to be honored

Émile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin gets another film adaptation, this time in English.

AMOA hosts Manny Farber at the Movies

If it hadn't been such a hack job (and a transparent, two-star rewrite of one of Edwards' numerous commercial peaks), Skin Deep might've done for John Ritter what its blueprint, 10, did for Dudley Moore: transform the TV vet into a viable leading man at the box office.

Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme takes a trip to the city of lights and of love, of Tati and Truffaut, in his latest, The Truth About Charlie.

Local Dylan scholar reports from Sweden on Prize festivities

This ugly political season grows ever more vicious

CinemaTexas program notes

Along the path back to wonder

Rules of the Game (1939) played ball and jacks compared to Buñuel's The Exterminating Angel

Demonization of those with whom we disagree is the most dangerous disease that can infect a constitutional republic

Rules of the Game remastered; a Bruno S. double feature; and The Hitcher reaches its destination

In the current political climate, reasoned debate turns too easily to ideological hate

'Conversations With the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute'

Musicians make uneasy actors. With his directorial debut, 1970's 'Performance,' Nicolas Roeg characteristically tossed convention out the hotel window by casting Mick Jagger as one of the leads. He would follow up with David Bowie and Art Garfunkel.