Katyn." title="Gloves and death: Danuta Stenka in Katyn." / Katyn Running time 118 minutes Written by Andrzej Wajda, Wladyslaw Pasikowski, Andrzej Mularczyk, Przemyslaw Nowakowski Directed by Andrzej Wajda Starring Artur Zmijewski, Maja Ostaszewska, Maja Komorowska, Wladyslaw Kowalski Andrzej Wajdaâ...

Film Forum’s series of Depression movies, Breadlines & Champagne, resumes on Saturday, Feb. 14, on an especially high note, with Gregory La Cava’s My Man Godfrey (1936), starring William Powell, Carole Lombard, Gail Patrick, Alice Brady, Eugene Pallette, Alan Mowbray, Mischa Auer and Frankli...

Bruce Goldstein’s splendid Depression series, Breadlines and Champagne, continues at Film Forum on Monday, Feb. 9, with King Vidor’s Our Daily Bread (1934), starring Karen Morley, Tom Keene, John Qualen, Barbara Pepper, Addison Richards and Harry Holman, at 7:30 only; and Hamilton MacFadden’s ...

Some people may consider it too early to handicap the 2009 Oscars for the films and performers of 2008, but experience has taught me that I am not much wiser on the day before the ceremony than I am right now, so here are my final words on this year’s Oscars. With the year’s Best Picture categor...

Gomorrah." title="No walk on the beach: Ciro Petrone and Marco Macor flash their guns in Gomorrah." / Gomorrah Running time 137 minutes Written by Maurizio Braucci, Ugo Chiti, Gianni Di Gregorio, Matteo Garrone, Massimo Gaudioso, Roberto Saviano Directed by Matteo Garrone Starring Salvatore Abruzzes...

It strikes me that it is only a matter of time before the current financial crisis produces crusading screenplays attacking the Madoff-like malefactors of great wealth in our midst. The nonfiction filmmakers like Michael Moore have already joined in the fray. Still, in this lull before the cinematic...

Happy-Go-Lucky." title="Smiley face: Sally Hawkins and Alexis Zegerman in Happy-Go-Lucky." / It suddenly occurred to me just before I started grinding out my year-end summaries and 10-best lists that I have been engaged in this activity for a very long time. If my increasingly faulty memory is corre...

Doubt Running Time: 104 minutes Written and directed by John Patrick Shanley Starring Meryl Streep, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis John Patrick Shanley's Doubt, from his own screenplay, adapted from his own play, left me less moved than querulously dissatisfied despite the impressiv...

Last Chance Harvey Running time: 92 minutes Written and directed by Joel Hopkins Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, James Brolin, Kathy Baker, Richard Schiff, Liane Balaban, Elieen Atkins Joel Hopkins' Last Chance Harvey, from his own screenplay, transforms its low-key litany of two transatlan...

In a season when funny and witty movies are at a premium, Bruce Goldstein, program director of Film Forum, has presented a tribute to Preston Sturges (1898-1959) with a nine-day festival of 10 comic masterpieces directed and/or written by Sturges, who was aptly evaluated by Times critic Dave Kehr as...