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Roman Polanski

  • Film

    February 2, 2012

    A Separation: An Iranian Breakup is Hard to Do

    You are the judge in the high-stakes legal drama.

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    Opening Credits: Today's Cinematic Releases for Jan. 13

    Contraband Director: Baltasar Kormákur Writer: Aaron Guzikowski Condensed Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster Mark Wahlberg stars as a former pop star/underwear model turned actor turned smuggler turned former smuggler who gets himself in deep with a drug lord to protect his brother- ... More >>

  • Film

    January 12, 2012

    Carnage: White People With "Problems"

    Contraband Director: Baltasar Kormákur Writer: Aaron Guzikowski Condensed Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster Mark Wahlberg stars as a former pop star/underwear model turned actor turned smuggler turned former smuggler who gets himself in deep with a drug lord to protect his brother- ... More >>

  • News

    December 30, 2010

    J. Hoberman's Top 10 Movies of 2010

    Contraband Director: Baltasar Kormákur Writer: Aaron Guzikowski Condensed Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster Mark Wahlberg stars as a former pop star/underwear model turned actor turned smuggler turned former smuggler who gets himself in deep with a drug lord to protect his brother- ... More >>

  • News

    December 30, 2010

    Karina Longworth's Top 10 Movies of 2010

    Contraband Director: Baltasar Kormákur Writer: Aaron Guzikowski Condensed Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster Mark Wahlberg stars as a former pop star/underwear model turned actor turned smuggler turned former smuggler who gets himself in deep with a drug lord to protect his brother- ... More >>

  • Film

    October 29, 2009

    An Education and Its Star, Carey Mulligan, Get Good Marks

    Contraband Director: Baltasar Kormákur Writer: Aaron Guzikowski Condensed Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster Mark Wahlberg stars as a former pop star/underwear model turned actor turned smuggler turned former smuggler who gets himself in deep with a drug lord to protect his brother- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2009

    Top 10 Uses Of Food On Album Covers

    As a rule, high-end food photography is supposed to make you hungry. Give the food some soft light, frame it carefully and from just the right distance and it'll look even better on film than it does on your plate. But then there's the strange alternate reality of album covers, where diesel #2 stand ... More >>

  • Film

    August 6, 2009

    With Tetro, It's Family Biz

    As a rule, high-end food photography is supposed to make you hungry. Give the food some soft light, frame it carefully and from just the right distance and it'll look even better on film than it does on your plate. But then there's the strange alternate reality of album covers, where diesel #2 stand ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2008

    Like a Bat Out of Hell, the USA Film Festival Schedule is Released

    As a rule, high-end food photography is supposed to make you hungry. Give the food some soft light, frame it carefully and from just the right distance and it'll look even better on film than it does on your plate. But then there's the strange alternate reality of album covers, where diesel #2 stand ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2008

    At Sundance, Some Films Are Wanted, While Others Are Desired

    As a rule, high-end food photography is supposed to make you hungry. Give the food some soft light, frame it carefully and from just the right distance and it'll look even better on film than it does on your plate. But then there's the strange alternate reality of album covers, where diesel #2 stand ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2008

    Buyers Beware, Or: Will Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures at Sundance Film Festival?

    As a rule, high-end food photography is supposed to make you hungry. Give the food some soft light, frame it carefully and from just the right distance and it'll look even better on film than it does on your plate. But then there's the strange alternate reality of album covers, where diesel #2 stand ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 22, 2007

    Royal Reel

    The Inwood rents a room to the Tenenbaums

  • Home Entertainment

    November 8, 2007

    The Kids Were All Right

    The Inwood rents a room to the Tenenbaums

  • Culture

    August 23, 2007

    Pillzapoppin'!

    In Valley of the Dolls, heavy doses of camp with strong comic side effects

  • Calendar

    August 9, 2007

    Subtitled

    The Modern screens foreign classics

  • Film

    August 9, 2007

    An American (and a Chinese) in Paris

    The third time's the guilty pleasure for Tucker and Chan's buddy cop franchise

  • News

    August 31, 2006

    Party Poop

    With Dems likes these, who needs the GOP?

  • Film

    April 27, 2006

    Thank Hell for Little Girls

    Hard Candy turns the tables on an online pedophile

  • Film

    February 9, 2006

    Hacked

    Harrison Ford runs smack into a Firewall, poor guy

  • Film

    September 29, 2005

    Artful Dodging

    Polanski's Oliver Twist misses the grit of Dickens' classic

  • Calendar

    October 9, 2003

    Through the Lens

    Make a visit to Vistas

  • Calendar

    July 17, 2003

    She's Baaaaaack

    Paula Poundstone is an open book

  • News

    April 3, 2003

    War Torn

    Or, how CNN has made this column more irrelevant than usual

  • Film

    February 27, 2003

    French Kiss-Off

    That Amélie girl returns with the yucky side of cute romance

  • Film

    January 2, 2003

    In the Ghetto

    Polanski returns to Poland, this time as The Pianist

  • Film

    January 2, 2003

    Old News

    Reissues dominated, but an international crop of films yielded some good harvest

  • Film

    October 18, 2001

    Blood Brothers

    Albert and Allen Hughes deliver a sensuous but grisly message From Hell

  • Film

    May 10, 2001

    Hall of Mirrors

    Catherine Deneuve shines in Place Vendôme

  • Film

    March 9, 2000

    Devil may care less

    Polanski's Ninth Gate has a few chills but is devoid of thrills

  • Film

    March 9, 2000

    The devil's playground

    Roman Polanski can't understand why anyone would take his new movie seriously

  • News

    January 22, 1998

    Flood money

    The Trinity River Plan's billion-dollar vision of levees, parks, and ponds has Mayor Ron Kirk--and most of Dallas--spellbound. But engineers warn it could lead to a flooding catastrophe and destroy the same poor neighborhoods it's designed to help.

  • Film

    July 18, 1996

    Grim reaper

    The comic horror of The Frighteners eventually brings on the willies

  • Calendar

    May 2, 1996

    Events for the week

    The comic horror of The Frighteners eventually brings on the willies

  • Film

    January 12, 1995

    Personal best

    From a year full of startling and memorable movies, here are our favorites

  • News

    December 8, 1994

    En garde!

    A chain-mail grab bag of great movie blades

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