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Features

No Method to His Madness

By Richard Schickel
July 2, 2012
Here's to the rest of him

Hail the Conquering Hero: Andrew Sarris

By Kent Jones
June 21, 2012
Kent Jones re-examines the 50-year career of Andrew Sarris, the man who brought auteurism to America

Maurice Pialat’s We Won’t Grow Old Together

By Dave Kehr
June 4, 2012
The end of the affair, with emotional brutality intact, in Pialat’s highly personal 1972 film

Second Thoughts on Stroheim

By Jonathan Rosenbaum
May 29, 2012
An attempt to isolate, but not dismantle, the legend

From Stupefaction to Just Plain Stupid

By jwham
April 6, 2012

Radical Kindness

By Frédéric Bonnaud, translated by Jonathan Robbins
March 12, 2012
The Kid with a Bike leads Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s cinema of gestures and actions out of the shadows

Love Among the Ruins

By Graham Fuller
February 27, 2012
British cinema’s keeper of the postwar flame Terence Davies fans the burning embers of forbidden desire in The Deep Blue Sea

No Surrender

By Anton Dolin
February 27, 2012
The strange case of Russian maverick Aleksei German, and his stubborn battle to overthrow cinematic orthodoxy and correct the historical record

Go West, Old Mae

By Gilbert Adair
February 24, 2012
At 86, Mae West made a “new” movie called Sextette. To Gilbert Adair, it seems like very old times.

Leaving The Times

By Roger Greenspun
January 12, 2012
Or: How I Came to Lose My Job as a Second-String Movie Critic