Memories of David Niven
I recall nothing of our lunch conversation, which has evaporated after fifty years. But I do have a clear memory of the icon of cinema
Film
Thursday
This month in culture: December 2024
What to watch this December
Barcelona turns thirty
Revisiting Whit Stillman’s sophomore picture
Monday
How controversial is The Apprentice?
Abbasi’s heady weaving of the antic and the deadly serious may explain some of the criticism that’s been leveled at the film
Twenty-five years of Fight Club and American Beauty
What the notorious films have to say about masculinity in crisis?
This month in culture: November 2024
What to watch this November
Friday
Where has the erotic film gone?
Depictions of sex in cinema have collapsed
Thursday
Caligula’s second wind
The notorious film may be the most expensive, most unpleasant adult movie ever made
The world needs more Lars von Triers
The director has spent his time pushing the boundaries of cinema to the extreme
This month in culture: October 2024
Our staff picks what to watch out for this October
Monday
This month in culture: September 2024
What to watch this September
Thursday
How long has Hollywood been out of ideas?
What’s changed in recent years isn’t the instinct to take safe bets on already popular content — it’s that those bets are no longer paying off
This month in culture: August 2024
What should be on your radar this August
How one bad scene can ruin an otherwise great movie
When I go on an early 1970s jag — revisiting the golden age of American cinema — I can never bring myself to rewatch Five Easy Pieces
Monday
This month in culture: July 2024
What should be on your radar this July
Wednesday
This month in culture: June 2024
Our guide to what should be on your radar
Tuesday
The wild times on the late, great John Belushi’s most famous film
Daniel de Visé’s entertaining — if that is the right word — canter through Belushi and Aykroyd’s lives and times covers a fair number of bases
Christopher Nolan, creator of worlds
The filmmaker has Hollywood at his feet
Sunday
The intriguing revival of the British gangster picture
It is unlikely that either Sexy Beast or The Gentlemen will have their legacies seriously challenged by the television series based on them
Reconsidering Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice
If the Thomas Pynchon novel adaptation has anything to say about the American dream, it is to mock its high-falutin’ nature