My favorite all time translucent movie is Alan Ball's American Beauty. What is your list of the five most "spiritual" or "translucent" films you have ever seen?
Grist | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green
Featuring interviews with a who's who of influential environmentalists, Earth Days starts in postwar suburbia and describes the creeping sense of disc...
Michael Giltz | Posted 11.13.2009 | Entertainment
You could spend an entire film festival going from press conference to round table to one-on-one interviews. I'd rather see the films and worry about interviews some other time.
Nina Burleigh | Posted 11.13.2009 | Entertainment
The two surprise winners at the Venice Film Festival represent the yin and yang of the modern Middle East.
Michael Giltz | Posted 11.12.2009 | Entertainment
Tomorrow is just a train wreck of competing film screenings. I interview Vera Farmiga at 10:20 for the excellent Up In The Air. But then what?
Michael Giltz | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment
Reviewed: the new Coen brothers movie, George Clooney, fuzzy Ukrainian subtitles and a pack of arty Vikings.
Giles Slade | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment
The Copenhagen conference is billed as humanity's last chance to reverse climate change, but many fear we have already reached a global tipping point. Our films reflect this.
Jim Killeen | Posted 11.08.2009 | Entertainment
I met a sexual swinger in Denver, a father of eight in St. Louis, a retired NYPD detective, a traffic engineer in Scotland, and a health care executive in Melbourne Australia.
Michael Bialas | Posted 10.23.2009 | Entertainment
Maybe this is as close as writer/director Todd Solondz will ever get to a feel-good movie.
Chris Willman | Posted 10.23.2009 | Entertainment
Before we decamp from the Colorado mountains, here's a brief look at some of the 36th annual confab's more notable or notorious entries.
Chris Willman | Posted 10.22.2009 | Entertainment
One of this year's most anticipated movies had its world premiere this weekend 9,545 feet above sea level, in a screening room at the Telluride Film Festival.
Michael Bialas | Posted 10.21.2009 | Entertainment
It's 1961 in Twickenham, England, and 16-year-old straight-A student Jenny dreams of living in Paris but seems content with playing the cello, smoking cigarettes, learning to speak French and listening to Juliette Greco.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 10.20.2009 | Entertainment
Remembering Up, Transformers 2, Harry Potter, Inglourious Basterds and more.
2morrowknight | Posted 10.19.2009 | Entertainment
Deep in your heart, you know Colbert's got the complete package of comic timing, creativity, audacity, and that indefinable "it" to pull off a portrayal of such a multi-layered villain.
Danny Groner | Posted 10.19.2009 | Entertainment
I've assembled a list of movies that showcase lead characters names in the titles in both odd and clever pun-driven ways. Some of these may have been obvious to you, other puns might be so bad that you'll only realize them now.
Dan Persons | Posted 10.18.2009 | Entertainment
In the documentary We Live in Public, director Ondi Timoner focuses on an experiment in which 100 people were shut into a Soho, NY basement with all the comforts of home, plus 24/7 surveillance.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 10.17.2009 | Entertainment
The acquisition of 5,000 often violent, occasionally sexualized comic book characters just makes Disney an even easier target for Focus on the Family. We'll see if Disney reacts to inevitable cheap shots.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 09.30.2009 | Entertainment
Yup, summer is officially over. Now we can get to what's really important -- trying to keep up with the dozen or so new Oscar-bait releases and overestimating James Cameron's Avatar.
Michael Giltz | Posted 09.28.2009 | Entertainment
This week in DVD releases: A clever, sexy and adult caper about two opposing corporate spies who are working together to scam their employers. Maybe.
Jared Gardner | Posted 09.28.2009 | New York
The new narrative media of video games is making us psychologically damaged goods, whose best hope is that when we die alone, the neighbors will find our body before the dogs.
Mark Blankenship | Posted 09.27.2009 | Entertainment
Maybe I'm alone here, but I say Inglorious Basterds is about something more.
Brad Balfour | Posted 09.27.2009 | Entertainment
Given its wonderfully wacked-out premise, Cold Souls is a film that does not deserve to be lost in the summer shuffle.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 09.26.2009 | Entertainment
As everyone and their sister already knows, Inglourious Basterds scored a genuinely impressive $38 million over its debut weekend.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment
Here are some quick tips to increase the likelihood that Megan Fox hosting Saturday Night Live will be successful.
Jonathan Kim | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment
In light of a new report set to be released today from the CIA, I want to take another look at Standard Operating Procedure, Errol Morris' documentary about torture at Abu Ghraib.
Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living