The Oscars
The critics' picks, the Carpetbagger on the prelude and George Clooney's nostalgic streak.
Scenes That Go Home With You
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A Serbian Director’s Eye Remains Fixed on Uncomfortable Truths
Mirjana Jokovic, left, and Lazar Ristovski in Goran Paskaljevic’s “Cabaret Balkan,” from 1998.
He has been a Yugoslav and a Serb and worked under Tito and Milosevic. So it makes sense that the place where Goran Paskaljevic really likes to work is Ireland.
Movie Review 'Woman on the Beach'
Him, Her and Him by the Seashore, Balancing Levity and Suffering
New Yorker Films
From left, Kim Seung-woo, Ko Hyun-joung and Kim Tae-woo.
“Woman on the Beach” is a bittersweet accounting of the geography of desire.
Movie Review 'The Business of Being Born'
American Motherhood and the Question of Home Birth
“The Business of Being Born” is a passionate ground-level examination of home childbirth.
Movie Review 'Liberty Kid'
Two Drifting Life Rafts on a Sea of Circumstance
There’s not a single wrong note in “Liberty Kid,” Ilya Chaiken’s poignant drama about marginal lives strained to breaking by the aftermath of Sept. 11.
News and Features
No Golden Globes Show, Just a News Conference
The announcement came in response to the threat of pickets from the Writers Guild of America.
Critic’s Choice
New DVDs
“An Affair to Remember,” reissued in a beautifully remastered two-disc 50th-anniversary edition, is one of the best and best-loved films of classical Hollywood.
In Strike, Separate Deals Draw Ire of Big Producers
A deal between United Artists and the Writers Guild of America West may have opened the door to a full-blown brawl.
Movie Reviews
Movie Review 'A Bloody Aria'
Brutishness Begets Brutishness on the Road
“A Bloody Aria,” by the Korean director Won Shin-yun, is a sort of Asian “Deliverance.”
Movie Review 'One Missed Call'
Death Is on the Line; Can You Hear It Now?
“One Missed Call” is the latest Japanese knockoff to fetishize death by technology.
Movie Review 'The Killing of John Lennon'
John Lennon’s Death Revisited Through the Words of His Killer
Andrew Piddington’s devastating re-enactment of events leading up to, including and immediately after the murder is taken from interviews, depositions and court transcripts.
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Multimedia
Drawn to Life
Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, co-directors of "Persepolis," discuss turning their drawings into animation.
Writers' Strike
The latest news on the Hollywood writers' strike.
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