This week Breathless celebrates its 50th anniversary with the release of a restored version in the US. Shot in black and white in the streets, cafes and cheap hotels of Paris, Breathless erased the borders between …

Micmacs by Jean-Pierre Jeunet is an improbably zany answer to the war on terror, from the director of Delicatessen, Amelie, and A Very Long Engagement.  The comedy about an underground army of outcasts who declare war …

In the largest room at LTMH Gallery, Shoja Azaris images of Iranian holy martyrs striking poses of power and courage shine out from backlit cases. It reminds you of movie displays from the 1920s. In those …

Podcast: Download The Woodmans won the top prize at this years Tribeca Film Festival. Francesca  Woodman is an artist about whom I have long hoped to do a much more intensive investigation (of her work), given …

Documentaries are always a reliable strength at the Tribeca Film Festival. This year, they are led by what might be called The Alex Gibney Show. Gibney, who won an Academy Award for his 2007 film, Taxi …

No One Knows About Persian Cats (a film by Bahman Ghobadi) is, among many other things,  a band-on-the-run film, with the bands in question scrambling to stay one step ahead of the police in Tehran. You …

The Square takes us to a quiet middle-class neighborhood on the outskirts of Sydney. Its Christmas time, theres a shark warning for the rivers that lead to the sea, and vacation home builder Ray is having …

Why arent more films about design made or shown in the US? Ill let readers, designers and filmmakers debate that one. In the meantime, consider films on design made in other countries that were at the …

Greenberg, Noah Baumbachs new semi-comedy about a 40-ish former musician in a rut who meets a sweet girl on a trip to his successful brothers house in California, is more of a twist on Philip Roth …

In The Runaways, the debut feature for music video director Floria Sigismondi, the early tempestuous days of Joan Jetts rock career are revisited without any cloying nostalgia. Sigismondi has made a rousing portrait of the 1970s …