A Better Life

Aug 14, 2023 — Defying pressure from Iran, Locarno didn’t just screen Ali Ahmadzadeh’s Critical Zone; the festival also gave it its top award.

Mar 21, 2017 — A “celluloid atrocity” overflowing with deviant shenanigans, John Waters’s low-budget satire makes mincemeat of the peace-and-love era.

Feb 11, 2017 — Ermanno Olmi captures the dignity of work in this painterly vision of late nineteenth-century rural Italy.

Feb 19, 2015 — The scholar and producer talks about his experiences on the set of a film that changed his life.

Nov 4, 2014 — In cinema history, there truly is no gag like a Tati gag.

Mar 25, 2014 — Silent comedy superstar Harold Lloyd played big dreamers; few were more determined to succeed than the college football player Harold Lamb.

Jan 30, 2014 — Growing up with the epically zany, star-studded comedy.

Jun 17, 2013 — The author recounts the story of his friendship with the great filmmaker.

May 25, 2009 — Reported from the set of Eddie Coyle by New Journalism trailblazer Grover Lewis, this article is a profile of Robert Mitchum that features extensive, idiosyncratic monologues by Mitchum himself.

Nov 23, 2008 — The possession of a real voice is always a marvel, an almost religious thing.