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By | May 1999
The film’s best moment comes at the very end…
Robert Bresson made this same film better and far earlier with his exquisite existentialist "Pickpocket" in 1959. "Xiao Wu" essentially treads the same...
The latest work from influential director Werner Herzog, this documentary retraces astonishing events that took place 25 years ago, when a plane crash in...
It was week two of the Festival, and I was getting a semi-permanent feeling of being hung-over. At a certain point, Festival parties almost feel like...
Like Jackie Chan, Jet Li's stateside success -- in "Lethal Weapon 4" -- has spurred the dubbing and dumping of his previous Hong Kong hits. In this 1996...
[ On Juliane Koepke: ] ^ "It is not only a film of her, it's a film on something deeper, and part of it is of course her relationship to nature, and how...
Former New Kid on the Block, Donnie Walhberg is credibly redemptive and sympathetic as Danny Quinn, a fallen son who returns home to the tough hood of...
Djibil Djop Mambety's first feature is a sprightly, spirited look at the life of an African street urchin, told through vignettes. The version I watched...
This is the latest effort by influential German director Wim Wenders, whose poetic "Wings of Desire" earned him a permanent blip on the art-film...
Like many people from my generation, "Star Wars" is not just a favorite film, but an almost spiritual experience from childhood. Like I need to say...
Well, my review of the Star Wars: Special Edition caused quite the stir a few weeks ago when I gave it a fairly negative review. Let me recap for a moment,...
