If anyone out there is writing a history of filmmaking over the last 30 years I sincerely urge you devote a chapter to the influence of music videos on feature films. This influence would be …

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee was one of the books of my young adolescence: everyone had to read it and everyone had an opinion about it. Published in 1970 to great popular acclaim (it …

The first thing you see in Belle de jour is a long stretch of rural road in a French country scene so impossibly picturesque it seems to belong in an art museum. A horse-drawn carriage …

The road movie is a staple of Western film, but rarely does one begin by destroying the hero’s means of transportation.

One of my recent discoveries is how many great films are being produced in Spanish-speaking countries. I don’t just mean the international hits everyone knows about like Pan’s Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) by Guillermo …