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There is literally no film quite like “All That Jazz.” Its lengthy, closing dreamscape blends dance, music, and fragmented storytelling, and is truly worth the price of admission alone, but Fosse’s rhythmic cutting and ...

Put quite simply, there is no hard-boiled noir quite like “Blast of Silence,” a signal influence on Scorsese and countless others, including David Simon and Robert De Niro. As played by writer-director-actor Allen ...

Actor/Director Chahine’s long-lost masterpiece (aka, “The Iron Gate”) is finally available again, and time has not dulled its impact. Shot in the noir style, with a plot Hitchcock would have loved, this unnerving film ...

French director Olivier Assayas’s ever-whirling camera has never captured drama so tender. From a scenario riddled to the core with cliché, he spins movie gold, producing a profoundly moving meditation on growth and ...

Greek master Angelopoulos is often described as a challenging filmmaker, but those willing to submit to his patient rhythms here will be rewarded with a deep, resonant meditation on mortality. A master of the long, ...

Swedish master Jan Troell’s Golden Globe-nominated historical epic balances the sweep of a changing era with the intimate moments in the life of one woman. Easily spanning nearly twenty years of Maria’s life, ...

Transpose Stanley Tucci’s small-restaurant woes from “Big Night” to an aspiring hip hopper from Memphis and you’ll have a sense of what “Hustle & Flow” is all about. Craig Brewer’s directorial debut reeks of Southern ...

Part of the Dogme 95 movement that catapulted Lars Von Trier and Thomas Vinterburg to international stardom, Lone Scherfig turns in a farce that lands far from the weighty entries of her contemporaries. “Italian For ...

Winner of Best Picture at the British Academy Awards, this intelligent, restrained anti-war entry deserves wider recognition, as it follows in the proud tradition of Kubrick’s “Paths Of Glory”, and approximates its ...

Fascinating, affecting film from Eran Riklis cements Abass’s standing as a first-rate screen actress (most of us first met her in “The Visitor” earlier this same year). Her Salma is a triumph of human dignity and ...