Short Fuse As a filmmaker and a critic, Warren Sonbert knew exactly how movies worked on people — both emotionally and technically. And when…
Martha and I dances on the cracks of prewar Europe
The Bridges of Madison County drips with corn syrup
Broken Arrow Just how important are soundtracks to a movie's (financial) success? Consider that the venal Basketball Diaries, which takes place in the 1960s,…
Author! Author! That underappreciated local resource, UC Press, has just released a flurry of enticing books for film buffs in search of reading fare…
A hero sinks with the Soviet dream in Burnt by the Sun
Tales From the Hood doesn't stray far from reality in its payback-themed vignettes
The Dekalog highlights the ambivalence of moral absolutes
Magnificent Obsession Perhaps it's time, I humbly submit, for the Chronicle to update and redraw the 52-year-old Little Man. Instead of his position in…
Made in Britain “Anybody can get a film made,” Tim Roth proclaimed with a crooked half-smile. “Steal a credit card; break into a Kodak…
