By Andrew Sarris 10/30/00 12:00am

Four Hairdressers in Heat; Remembering Vincent Canby

Tonie Marshall’s Venus Beauty Institute , from her own screenplay, has won several French César awards: best picture, best director, best screenplay and best young actress (Audrey Tautou). Curiously, the French honors did not include best actress for Nathalie Baye as Angèle, the film’s clearly dominant performance. One of four women ministering to the cosmetic Read More

By John Heilpern 3/01/99 12:00am

Off Your Knees, Times men! Broadway’s Beating the Brits

It always staggers me when New Yorkers-and New York theater critics, to boot-prostrate themselves before the altar of British theater, howling: “Thank you! Thank you! We are so inferior! Show us the way! Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you.”

To which the English, hurrying home with sacks full of awards and cash, reply: “No, Read More