By Andrew Sarris 9/27/99 12:00am

Almodóvar, Old Reliable, Opens New York Film Fes

Pedro Almodóvar’s All About My Mother ( Todo Sobre Mi Madre ) turns out to be a logical and probably popular choice to open the 37th New York Film Festival on Sept. 24. I should know because I was there before the beginning in 1963, with co-founders Eugene Archer and Richard Roud, when just about Read More

By Andrew Sarris 3/02/98 12:00am

Newman and Benton Get Their Groove Back

Robert Benton’s Twilight , from a screenplay by Mr. Benton and Richard Russo, begins with a splash of sunlight and swimming-pool water, and a flash of youthful flesh luxuriating in carnal congress in a Mexican resort hotel, and ends in the graying mists of the Hollywood hills, populated by variously damaged survivors with more past Read More