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Mar. 6th, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist
The Big Dither
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: March 5, 2009
The Big Dither
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: March 5, 2009
Last month, in his big speech to Congress, President Obama argued for bold steps to fix America’s dysfunctional banks. “While the cost of action will be great,” he declared, “I can assure you that the cost of inaction will be far greater, for it could result in an economy that sputters along for not months or years, but perhaps a decade.” More
Frontier of Dawn
Mar. 6th, 2009 06:30 am
Laura Smet and Louis Garrel in “Frontier of Dawn,” directed by Philippe Garrel.
March 6, 2009
Mirrors of Love, Unapologetically Yours
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: March 6, 2009
Love is a universe of two in Philippe Garrel’s fatalistic romance “Frontier of Dawn.” Shot in richly textured and contrasting black-and-white celluloid, it centers on a young photographer, François (Louis Garrel, the filmmaker’s son), and the two women with whom he finds and loses love. After his affair ends with Carole (Laura Smet), a famous actress given to flare-ups and meltdowns, he immerses himself in a new life with Eve (Clémentine Poidatz), who promises him a child and perhaps a chance at real happiness. More
Everlasting Moments (2008)
Mar. 6th, 2009 06:33 am
Maria Heiskanen in Jan Troell’s “Everlasting Moments.”
March 6, 2009
With the World Changing Fast, Finding a Vision of Self in a Camera
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: March 6, 2009
Jan Troell’s “Everlasting Moments” is a film whose title gives a clue about the kind of mood it wants to create. Set in Sweden in the early decades of the 20th century, this movie unspools at a leisurely, episodic pace, dwelling on the details of domestic life with a care that is both naturalistic and nostalgic. From the start, a narrator’s voice establishes that this is a daughter’s reminiscence of her parents’ long, often painful marriage, and her wistful, elegiac recollections extend to the film’s visual texture, its brownish hues and grainy, wintry sunlight. More
Tokyo! (2008)
Mar. 6th, 2009 06:36 am
Denis Lavant as a “creature from the sewers” in a segment of “Tokyo!” directed by Léos Carax.
March 6, 2009
The Heart of a City Dissected by Foreigners
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: March 6, 2009
A cramped metropolis of xenophobes and eccentrics living in a futuristic present: that is the image evoked in “Tokyo!,” a compendium of three surreal shorts whose relationship with one another might best be defined by the exclamation point in the title. More
The fadista Mariza in “Fados,” a film directed by Carlos Saura.
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: March 6, 2009
If you want a sense of the glorious emotional excesses that permeate fado, the soul music of Portugal, you need only listen to the legendary fadista Amália Rodrigues, who tremulously immortalized singing whores, weeping guitars, ashes and fire, pain and sin. “All this exists,” she sang. “All this is pain. All this is fado.” More
Nikita Mikhalkov’s “12,” inspired by “12 Angry Men,” examines post-Soviet Russia. In the foreground, Mr. Mikhalkov, as the jury foreman, watches Alexey Petrenko, as a transit worker, speak.
March 4, 2009
They, the Jury
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: March 4, 2009
In “12,” Nikita Mikhalkov’s grandiloquent remake of “12 Angry Men,” the elements of that modest courtroom classic have been enlarged to operatic dimensions. In this modern interpretation, directed by Mr. Mikhalkov, whose 1994 movie, “Burnt by the Sun,” won an Academy Award for best foreign-language film, the clashes among 12 Muscovites charged with determining the guilt or innocence of a young man accused of murder form a composite portrait of post-Soviet Russia. More
