Widower's Tango

Anna Karina , who died Saturday, was the most recognizable face of the French New Wave, thanks to the roles given her by Jean-Luc Godard. ...

I have somehow managed, until the age of sixty-one, to avoid the subject of the film noir . At the outset, I feel obliged to say that I am...

The Swiss filmmaker Claude Goretta died on February 20. As sometimes happens, news of the death of an artist I admire, a writer, musicia...

Already, as early as 1964, John Simon could pronounce that "the New Wave is waning." The French New Wave, that broke upon the i...

Bertrand Tavernier's The Judge and the Murderer was his third film (his third masterpiece), after The Clockmaker (1974) and Let Joy ...

One of the reasons why I'm convinced that Stanley Kauffmann is the best film critic of his time (1958-2013) is because he never wasted h...

Quite by chance, in August 2010, I read an article in The New Yorker (on its website, that is) by Richard Brody called " Truffaut...

After contacting Gary Morris, co-editor with Bert Cardullo of the book Action!: Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contem...