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Capone in Chicago here. FANTASTIC MR. FOX might be the single most charming film I’ve seen all year, and I choose that word carefully and specifically. But FANTASTIC MR. FOX, based on the novel by Roald Dahl, is loaded to the...
Willem Dafoe 54, actor, married, one son I've never had any close male friends. The most important relationships in my life have always been with women. My five sisters raised me because my father was a surgeon, my mother was a...
For years now, the video store was the way to get movies. The next generation it seems will be getting their movies from movie downloads, avoiding any trips to the store. You can get virtually any movie you want with a good...
On a night swaddled in humidity, I made my way down to La Boca, an Italian working-class neighborhood in Buenos Aires. My guide for the evening was the prominent Argentine writer Uki Goni, and as our cab crawled along, half...
The legendary German eccentric on his most American film, the dirty, profane, dazzling non-remake "Bad Lieutenant" Director Werner Herzog, left, and actor Nicolas Cage. When I asked him whether his grimy and delirious new cop...
It wasn't that long ago that a trip to the corner video shop was the most convenient way to get a movie. Instead of buying or renting the dvd, people now can choose a movie download instead. You can get virtually any movie you...
A couple goes into the woods, but they don't come out. Lars von Trier's stunning new film Antichrist is strong stuff indeed. That's because von Trier's camera (as helmed by Oscar-winning lenseman Anthony Dod Mantle) does not...
Anderson's spin on Dahl tale mostly witty, entrancing In his first foray into animation, director Wes Anderson lends his trademark quirky humor to a children's tale, rendering it a sometimes witty, if odd, cartoon for all ages....
Charlotte Gainsbourg was hardly expecting cheers when her film Antichrist was shown at Cannes this year. Which is fortunate. The latest inflammatory dispatch from the gender wars by the serial provocateur Lars von Trier tracks...
Director to preside over competition jurors BERLIN -- Werner Herzog has been tapped to head the Berlin Film Festival jury. Describing the helmer as “one of the most important filmmakers of auteur cinema” and “one of the most...
