The Human Stain
by Philip Roth
Houghton Mifflin, 361 pp., $ 26
Blue Angel
by Francine Prose
HarperCollins, 304 pp., $ 25
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
Viking,...
In the fall of 1975, Saturday Night Live premiered on NBC and instantly worked like a fibrillator on moribund American comedy. The show had a crazed energy made up of equal parts countercultural...
Nick Park is one of the greatest filmmakers in motion-picture history -- and chances are that, until this week, you'd never heard of him or his movies. Park has made five films. Four...
The horror parody Scary Movie has proved a staggering box-office success, grossing $ 42 million in its first weekend. That's more than twice what it cost to make, and this box-office...
There was a culture war long before the last few decades -- only the combatants weren't liberal elites versus conservative regular Joes. This was a war between New York City and the rest...
The movie Pay It Forward is a fable about an eleven-year-old boy who comes up with a plan to change the world for the better -- and it's a prime example of a moviegoing phenomenon that...
The brilliant British actor Gary Oldman is not only a star of the new political thriller The Contender, but an executive producer. Oldman's manager, Douglas Urbanski, is another of the...
Movies from Film Forum, 11/01/01Some messiahs have reached the mainstream. The Matrix's Neo (Keanu Reeves) is trained to enter a world of manufactured lies and deliver a persecuted people. He exhibits...
Movies from Film Forum, 07/20/00Look out, sliced bread: the uncanny X-Men are threatening to become the latest, greatest thing. Action-hungry audiences spent a surprisingly robust $54.5 million in the...
Movies from Film Forum, 10/04/01One of my favorite songs is Sam Phillips' "Power World," which explores how easily the media warp our perception of things. The refrain declares, "Our ideas of perfect...
Movies from Film Forum, 12/21/01Crowe is introducing his colorful and intense remake of a Spanish thriller called Open Your Eyes. Like the original, which was directed by Spanish filmmaker Alejandro AmenÁbar,...
Movies from Film Forum, 11/01/01Viewers seem much more enthusiastic about the spiritual inquiry that takes place in Waking Life. The movie was shot using digital video, then transformed with a revolutionary...
Movies from Film Forum, 09/28/01This week, television and film studios showed an admirable sense of reverence, appropriateness, and responsibility by postponing and canceling the release of violent, destruction-filled...
Movies from Film Forum, 10/18/01While Hollywood's evils lurked on Mulholland Drive, bad cops were the center of attention in the box office champ Training Day. Ethan Hawke plays a rookie taken under the...
Movies from Film Forum, 11/08/01Pixar, the studio that set a new standard for family entertainment with the spectacular and successful Toy Story franchise and A Bug's Life, have another #1 hit: Monsters,...
Movies from Film Forum, 04/12/01In select cities, grownups are lining up for Memento, taking on its mind-boggling riddles and nonchronological storytelling. It's something of a cult challenge: Can you...
Movies from Film Forum, 11/15/01Pixar's fun-filled family flick Monsters, Inc. again scared up the biggest numbers of the week, reigning supreme above everything else. Far behind in second place was the...
Movies from Film Forum, 10/18/01Can we take refuge in a sentimental romance? Serendipityis the latest romantic comedy from director Peter Chelsom, who gave us the widely panned Town & Country earlier...
Movies from Film Forum, 10/25/01Riding in Cars with Boys is based on the best-selling memoirs of writer Beverly Donofrio, starring Drew Barrymore in her first attempt at a demanding dramatic lead role....
Movies from Film Forum,10/18/01But David Lynch's Mulholland Drive isn't bound for blockbusting. It's for those who want a challenge, and especially for those who enjoy David Lynch's maze-like, nonlinear...
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