Times and Winds is a remarkable piece of work, conceived at the highest pitch of intelligence: it is a cinematic poem, replete with fear and rapture, and one of the best films of the year," declares the Guardian 's Peter Bradshaw Austerity is one of the qualities a viewer expects of any film set in a deprived Turkish mountain village where...

T]here are more than enough names to be going on with: Balanchine , Stravinsky , Koussevitsky , Toscanini , Stokowski , Kurt Weill and Rouben Mamoulian are only the most prominent," writes Clive James , reviewing Joseph Horowitz 's Artists in Exile : How Refugees from Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts...

Cold Lunch - which opened Critics' Week at the Venice Film Festival - is the remarkable feature debut by Norway's Eva SÃrhaug ," writes Camillo de Marco . "Seemingly harsh (no director has ever dared inflict such a horrible end on a newborn baby, attacked by fierce Hitchcock -like gulls) but tinged with human empathy, Cold Lunch closes with a...

German director Christian Petzold continues his exploration of ambling lives a bankrupt society in the Venice Competition entry Jerichow , a strong film that further consolidates his reputation as one of Northern Europe's finest auteurs," writes Boyd van Hoeij in Cineuropa The film is an organic extension of Petzold's oeuvre and reunites the...

The 35th Telluride Film Festival has announced their lineup, and American helmers are tellingly absent." Variety 's Michael Jones has the list and a few notes on films that aren't in and: "'Last year was one of the strongest for American film,' said co-director Tom Luddy. 'But this year I didn't get any calls from Warner Independent,...

...movies were ripping off Shakespeare 's plots in the first place, with less talking and more killing - why not boil up all those stories and elements and influences in the same pot and see what happens Whether it's score-settling culture theft, a fever dream of interlinked Wild West mythology, or simply a company casserole of way-cool cinema,...

Charles Ferguson 's Oscar-nominated documentary No End in Sight , winner of the Documentary Special Jury Prize at Sundance in 2007, "is being made available free to the public to reveal the facts about the Bush Administration's invasion and occupation of Iraq to voters concerned with the issues of national security and the adverse economic...

Of Time and the City is [Terence] Davies 's first documentary, and it's a brooding, passionate, and often sardonic essay film that tributes the working class Liverpool of his childhood, and charts - with rueful adult hindsight - its cultural milieu," writes Doug Cummings . "Rather than tell the story of his family, he tells the story of his...

...movies, moviegoing and writing for film and television, presents the third column in his series, "Understanding Screenwriting FilmInFocus runs an excerpt from The Making of The Big Lebowski in which William Preston Robertson 's first question for Joel and Ethan Coen is, "What is the writing process like for you guys Screenwriters who blog:...

A first take from Ronald Bergan . Notes on other reviews will follow Burn After Filming , more likely. Opening the Venice Film Festival tonight is another attempt by the Coen Brothers to enter the mainstream, trying to live down the time when their films were more personal, quirky and less commercial. Here the starry cast does their...