Conventional wisdom unequivocally asserted that the only Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nominee to hold a candle to Waltz with Bashir was France’s The Class - but that even that movie was hardly as technically groundbreaking or thematically poignant as Israel’s nominee. Regardless, The...

First, an introduction: “If we and the movies don’t create an illusion, we’ve failed,� said Mr. Weinstein, whose company released “The Reader.� "The Reader", of course, excuses the SS, the Germans and a few others who killed (sorry) exterminated Jews. A beautiful woman, a bit of cinema-l...

Fox Searchlight's party at Craft was the place to watch the Golden Globes Sunday night if you weren't at the Beverly Hilton awards dinner. I was sitting with the folks who marketed the hell out of Slumdog Millionaire, the big winner of the night, four for four, including best score, director, screen...

The selection of "Waltz With Bashir" is congruent with the high-brow history of the National Society of Film Critics, but hardly too rarified to be taken seriously....

It's worth noting that several of the films getting singled out for kudos consideration this season are from directors who have played hard ball with the studios but have figured out that in many ways, indie is better. They include Jonathan Demme, who went from the mediocre The Manchurian Candidate ...