The Artist: A Silent Treatment
Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo. Photo: Warner Michel Hazanavicius is obviously a man who loves the cinema. French audiences know his OSS 117 films, spoofs of the spy genre, and…
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
It was supposed to be Aaron Sorkin’s great follow-up to The West Wing, featuring parts of the same cast and crew. A knowing look behind the scenes of a Saturday…
Monsters, Inc.
Another well-made, visually impressive film from Pixar, this time about a community of monsters in a city whose power supply consists of screams from children who have encountered the monsters…
O Brother Where Art Thou: Men of Constant Sorrow
Photo: Universal In Preston Sturges’s classic film Sullivan’s Travels (1941), Joel McCrea’s character, a Hollywood movie director, sets out to experience “the real world” as a way of preparing himself…