Jun 23, 2003 Ermanno Olmi’s seldom-cited debut feature, the 1958 Time Stood Still, is a wonderful film, but it was the one-two punch of his second and third films that put him on the international movie scene map. Il Posto and I Fidanzati...

Nov 19, 2001 Alfred Hitchcock’s first film in Hollywood is his earliest definitive statement on male domination and female subjugation.

Salesman

Essays

Sep 3, 2001 The Maysles Brothers’ documentary classic exposes the diurnal rituals and disappointments of American men of a certain generation.

Dec 18, 2000 Elegant humor cloaks despair in Luis Buñuel’s masterwork, wherein greedy characters flee their toxic lives and find refuge in the loneliness of dreams.

Dec 9, 1991 We used as much of the actual detail of physical things and of technique as we could possibly cram in, and as many players reflecting the endless variety of character and emotion of the real men as dramatization would allow.

Nov 9, 1987 The stories French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse tells in these sharply crafted featurettes are simple, yet they cut straight to the heart of a child’s view of the world.

A Rohmer Farewell

Short Takes

Jan 19, 2010 Tributes to Eric Rohmer have been springing up all over following his death last week at age eighty-nine. Among our favorites thus far is the one by Geoffrey O’Brien, who has written stirringly and lyrically about the French auteur on...

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