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4 Months 3 Weeks & 2 Days

review by Douglas Messerli

"A testament to the millions of individuals who suffered and survived the bleak Communist regimes"

Beginnings and endings

review by Douglas Messerli

The Ghost Writer is visually stunning, excitingly scripted, and heighted by a well-crafted score with near perfect sound.

Blood of an innocent

review by Douglas Messerli

Del Toro negotiates a path between paternalistic and magic realities.

Cemetery of garbage

review by Douglas Messerli

An impressive, if rambling, look at the Neapolitan crime group Camorra in Gomorrah.

Crash and the self-indulgence of white America

review by Robert Jensen and Robert Wosnitzer

Crash is a white-supremacist movie.

The curious case of Benjamin Button

review by Douglas Messerli

A strange (and strangely redemptive) film...

The Duchess of Langeais

review by Douglas Messerli

Don't touch that axe...

Flags and letters

review by Douglas Messerli

"It appears, [Clint] Eastwood suggests, that a culture that prefers flags to letters, a culture which offers up symbols as opposed to simple human expression, is doomed to estrangement."

For your consideration

review by Seamus Sweeney

Nothing scuppers comedy like desperation.

Four films of Kon Ichikawa

review by Douglas Messerli

An appreciation of the great Japanese director who died earlier this year.