By Andrew Sarris 5/05/09 4:16pm

Split Atom: New Egoyan Film Is Good, Not Great

Adoration
Running time 100 minutes
Written and directed by Atom Egoyan
Starring  Scott Speedman, Arsinée Khanjian, Devon Bostick, Rachel Blanchard

Atom Egoyan’s Adoration, from his own screenplay, is the 48-year-old, Cairo-born, Armenian-Canadian writer-director’s 12th feature film in a 32-year career that has spanned several media and art forms, and many countries, and for which he Read More

By Andrew Sarris 10/20/97 12:00am

Before Videotape Killed the Artistry of the Porno Flick

Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights was the hottest ticket at this year’s recently concluded 35th New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center. The buzz was a mixture of critical approbation for Mr. Anderson as a new and original director-storyteller, leering anticipation of the sizzlingly salacious subject of pornographic filmmaking from the late 70′s to the Read More