Wow! Guy Maddin Returns With Oversexed Orphan Scare

Brand Upon the Brain!
Running time 95 minutes
Directed by Guy Maddin
Written by Guy Maddin and George Toler
Starring Erik Maahs, Sullivan Brown, Gretchen Krich, Maya Lawson, Catharine Scharhorn

Guy Maddin’s Brand Upon the Brain!, from a screenplay by Mr. Maddin and George Toler, succeeds at one and the Read More

A Festivus for the Rest of Us! Movie Mavens Hit Manhattan

Twinkling lights and Chinese lanterns festooned the trees at Tavern on the Green’s New York Film Festival party last Friday. The belle of the ball was a luminous Helen Mirren, holding court after the premiere of her (and Miramax’s) The Queen, in a floor-length pearlescent white-and-black Stella McCartney dress. Ms. Mirren’s vanity-free performance as Queen Read More

Strayed Siren Emmanuelle Bears Body and Soul

André Téchiné’s Strayed , from a screenplay by Mr. Téchiné and Gilles Taurand, deals with the demoralizing civilian exodus from Paris in 1940 ahead of the occupation by the victorious German Army. The film deals with this historical moment in an arduous and yet more lyrical manner than Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s well-received but comparatively painless Bon Read More