40 Years After ?MASH,? Gould Reflects on an Era
A special showing in New York on Saturday will end with a question-and-answer session with some of the stars of ?MASH? and the widow of the director, Robert Altman.
Movie Review | 'Going the Distance': Nothing Keeps Them Apart Except a Continent
In ?Going the Distance,? Drew Barrymore and Justin Long are young lovers struggling through a cross-country romance.
Time Marches ... Backward!
The Museum of Modern Art and TCM are revisiting ?The March of Time? series, short films created from 1935 to 1951 that examine foreign affairs and social issues.
Movie Review | 'A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop': Remade in China: Coen Brothers? Tale of Infidelity and Revenge
The director Zhang Yimou honors the unlikely affinity between himself and Joel and Ethan Coen with a remake of their movie ?Blood Simple.?
Movie Review | 'Machete': Growl, and Let the Severed Heads Fall Where They May
Robert Rodriguez?s splatter comedy ?Machete? is a live-action comic book with roots in the pungent swamp of 1970s B movies.
Movie Review | 'Last Train Home': A Family Caught in the Wheels of China?s Industrial Locomotive
This documentary by Lixin Fan traces the conflicts between married migrant factory workers in Guangzhou and their daughter, strains partly resulting from China?s accelerating economy.
Movie Review | 'Etienne!': Rodent Road Trip and Human Bonds
A boy loses his rodent and finds a girl in ?Etienne!,? a sunny-sweet fable about healing wounds with the balm of the open road.
Movie Review | 'The Winning Season': Redemption as a Team Sport
An alcoholic finds self-respect as the coach of a high school girls? basketball team in ?The Winning Season.?
Movie Review | 'Our Beloved Month of August': A Film Within a Film
The Portuguese director Miguel Gomes blurs the line between nonfiction and fiction.
Movie Review | 'Clear Blue Tuesday': A Post-9/11 Pop Musical
The film about living in New York post-9/11, is earnest and well meaning and, while dangerously sentimental at times, never quite crosses the line into maudlin.
Movie Review | 'Prince of Broadway': A Street Hustler Becomes a Reluctant Father
Like its subject, the movie is sharp, charismatic and so light on its feet we never know which way it will turn.
Movie Review: Assaying the Norwegian Resistance
?Max Manus? is a solidly acted biopic of World War II derring-do.
Movie Review: White Wedding
The bungled wedding story and the road movie collide happily in ?White Wedding.?
Movie Review | 'The American': Traveling Man With Few Words and a Big Gun
This suspense thriller, directed by Anton Corbijn, is often more evocative of the art house than of the multiplex.
Movie Review | 'My Dog Tulip': A Tender Love Story Between Man and Dog
?My Dog Tulip,? an animated film based on the 1956 memoir by J. R. Ackerley, explores a lonely man?s devotion toward his pet.
Movie Review | 'Aashayein': Handsome Guy Is Dying, but He Can Afford Care
Nagesh Kukunoor?s ?Aashayein? is a genre-defying Bollywood look at death.
Movie Review | 'Mesrine': Drunk on His Own Notoriety
Vincent Cassel, in a four-hour biography of a French gangster, gives a performance reminiscent of Mitchum and De Niro.
It?s Another Ride for Ben Affleck, Filmmaker-Star
?The Town? gives Ben Affleck another chance to shine as writer, director and star.
Music Review: Satchmo?s Story, Music Substituting for Words
Wynton Marsalis and friends provided the live accompaniment for a silent film about Louis Armstrong?s childhood.
Alain Corneau, César-Winning Film Director, Dies at 67
The director was best known for his 1991 award-winning film ?Tous les Matins du Monde.?
Film: Much Taller, Still Plastered
The 1981 Dudley Moore comedy ?Arthur? is being remade, starring Russell Brand, and filming is taking place all over Manhattan and Queens.
Film: Following Workers? Trails of Tears in China
The documentary ?Last Train Home? looks at a generation of migrant workers who have sacrificed their families to China?s rush to economic supremacy.
Film: Computer Animation, Made by Hand
The animation team Paul and Sandra Fierlinger, in films like ?My Dog Tulip,? use custom-made computers to create their hand-drawn-looking images.
Arts, Briefly: ?Last Exorcism? Tops Slow Weekend at the Movies
A PG-13 rating and a wide release helped push the horror movie ?The Last Exorcism? to No. 1 at the box office.
Film: Driven by Fierce Visions of Independence
Barbara Loden?s film ?Wanda,? a feminist portrayal of a woman struggling to survive, is being reissued.
DVDs: Mythic Mash-Up in Feverish Color
?Pandora and the Flying Dutchman,? Albert Lewin?s morbid, grandiloquent Technicolor film starring Ava Gardner and James Mason, has been released on DVD.
Hey, Big Spender: Hollywood Isn?t in the Mood
How does Joel Silver, the producer behind ?Die Hard? and ?The Matrix,? adapt to a movie industry that is cutting costs?
A Silent Musical
The new film ?Louis? is shown with live music led by Wynton Marsalis.
Thrift Shop Finds a Green Role for Used Film Props
A prop shop in Long Island City, run by Film Biz Recycling, is a nonprofit loaded with items donated from television and commercial productions.
Movie Review | 'The Milk of Sorrow': A Trauma in Peru
Magaly Solier plays a stoic young woman in Lima contending with her mother?s death.
Movie Review | 'Daniel & Ana': Siblings in Mexico City, Criminally Exploited
Michel Franco?s debut feature looks at the fallout of the kidnapping of a brother and sister from a well-off family.
Movie Review | 'Baghdad, Texas': Fleeing Mideast Dictator?s Unscheduled Stop
In David H. Hickey?s comedy, a Middle Eastern strongman headed for Cuba crash-lands in Texas.
Movie Review | 'Piranha 3D': The Fish Are Really Biting Those Women in Bikinis
In ?Piranha 3D? Alexandre Aja brings us hungry fish and shredded limbs in this loose remake of a 1978 film.
Film Series and Movie Listings
A listing of movies and film series.
Cammie King, Scarlett and Rhett?s Girl, Dies at 76
Ms. King played Scarlett O?Hara and Rhett Butler?s ill-fated little girl, Bonnie Blue Butler, in ?Gone With the Wind.?
Satoshi Kon, Anime Filmmaker, Dies at 46
Mr. Kon was a Japanese filmmaker and comic-book artist whose dazzling visual compositions won him a devoted following.
Film: The ?Scott Pilgrim? Crowd? This Gamer?s Not Part of It
?Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,? Seth Schiesel argues, fails to make the emotional investment that defines today?s best games.
Film: The Disease: Fatal. The Treatment: Mockery
A screening of ?Love Story? at Harvard teaches freshmen that melodrama means never having to say you?re sorry for all the insults.
Christoph Schlingensief, Artistic Provocateur, Dies at 49
Mr. Schlingensief, a German filmmaker, theater director and all-purpose gadfly, waged a tireless assault on received opinion in the arts and politics.
Advertising: With New Products, Nissan Plays Up Innovation Angle
The carmaker, which plans to release a mass-market electric car this year, the Leaf, has enlisted Robert Downey Jr. for its commercial voice-overs.
Books: ?Deliverance?: A Dark Heart Still Beating
The 40th anniversary of James Dickey?s book about wilderness and survival shouldn?t slip by unnoticed.
Film: It?s Actual Life. No, It?s Drama. No, It?s Both.
Miguel Gomes, Pedro Costa, Ulrich Seidl and Apichatpong Weerasethakul are some of the world cinema directors blending staged and real-life scenes in their work.
Big Shot | Schnabel's Polaroids
The artist and filmmaker is also a devotee of instant film.
D.I.Y. Music Labels Embrace D.I.Y. Film
Some indie record labels are distributing movies too. Their business model is: Stay small and informal, know your audience and put out stuff you like
Arts, Briefly: ?The Expendables? Tops Box Office Again
?The Expendables? with Sylvester Stallone leading an ensemble cast was No. 1 with about $16.5 million, bringing the cumulative total to about $65 million, according to Hollywood.com.
DVDs: Sternberg: Chief Director of Private Dream Factory
Three silent films by Josef von Sternberg, the master of shadow and light, have been released in a boxed set by Criterion.
Film: Films in Search of the Faithful
After the success of ?The Passion of the Christ,? Hollywood still hasn?t tapped the appetite for faith-based cinema. But new films are trying.
Facebook Feels Unfriendly Toward Film It Inspired
Mark Zuckerberg, the company founder, has been locked in a standoff with the makers of a film about the social network.
Out on a Limb
With two controversial new roles and a candor to match her beauty, the ?Slumdog? star Freida Pinto completes her passage from India.
Popcorn Reverie
Gary Giddins looks back at films of the ?30s, ?40s and ?50s, from Jimmy Stewart westerns to propaganda driven by a samba beat.
Heading West: A Ballet Dancer From China Looks Back
Li Cunxin?s journey from his home in rural China to pursue ballet in the United States is chronicled in ?Mao?s Last Dancer,? a new movie by Bruce Beresford.
Good Day for Paul Hogan: 'Crocodile Dundee' Star Can Return to U.S.
Mr. Hogan had been prevented from leaving Australia, where authorities said he owed millions in unpaid taxes.
Elliott Gould on 40 Years of ?MASH?
Mr. Gould, who played Trapper John McIntyre in Robert Altman's war satire "MASH," reflects on the film, his work with Robert Altman and his influential facial hair.
'Cool It,' Film Rival to 'An Inconvenient Truth,' Gets a U.S. Distributor
The documentary is adapted from the writing of Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish statistician who has argued against what he believes are extreme and alarmist scenarios presented by other environmentalists.