As the Sundance Film Festival closed its 2010 edition Jan. 31, the top dramatic prize for a US film went to Winters Bone, a stark violent story directed by Deborah Granik of a daughters search for …

In Invictus (2009), Clint Eastwood looked at two simultaneous phenomena – the release from prison and rise to power of Nelson Mandela, and the rallying of the South African public, or most of it, around a …

In 1938, Life Magazine called Georgia OKeeffe  “the worlds most famous woman artist.” Intended no doubt as a compliment, this anointment was a stigma that had already been with OKeeffe for 20 years, and would be …

James Cameron has been making Avatar for 15 years, longer than the US has spent in Iraq. Thats proved enough time to construct a movie cosmology with a clash of cultures at its core. But isnt …

Tom Fords directorial debut, A Single Man, is a stylishly personal adaptation of a Christopher Isherwood novel that revisits the age-old story of a man who wakes up one morning and decides to kill himself. Dramatic …

As bank misadventures hold the unemployment rate at 10 percent and companies cut costs mercilessly to survive the shock waves, Jason Reitman serves up the flavor of the month, i.e., the collapsing economy and its human …

In The Summer of Sam, Ellen Kuras took us back to the look and feel of the sweaty fearful days of 1977. If David Berkowitzs notorious murder spree targeting dark-haired girls in parked cars werent enough, …

The Road is a walk-through a post-apocalyptic landscape of rags, grey skies, and desperate survivors eating the flesh of other survivors. Is it a coincidence that The Road opened in New York the night before Thanksgiving? …

For cinephiles, Broken Embracess story, told by a movie director who was blinded in a car accident that killed his lover, is rippling with film references to challenge the most serious of nerds and scholars. For …

If you think the art market was dead or dying, think again. Sothebys Impressionist and Modern Auction this week took more than $181 million, after its rival Christies opened the week of big sales with a …