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May 9, 2008 Slamming through a new crime novel by Donald E. Westlake -- and it's hard to drag your feet once the process starts -- is a little like spelunking in a cave system whose twisted paths lead to fascinating galleries and grottoes, some bright...

Jean-Luc Godard is not merely the iconoclastic, indefatigable enfant terrible of France's New Wave but one of the most idiosyncratic and important filmmakers of the 20th century, whose innovative spirit continues to flourish into the 21st. His...

Jean-Luc Godard's films have always reflected the times in which they were made with their acute, even startling ability to evoke self-recognition, yet so rich and far-ranging are their concerns that it is hardly surprising they seem timeless. Such is the...

4 stars (out of 4) Filmmaking, Jean Cocteau once said, is the art that shows death at work - and it's also the art that can return its makers to the days of their youth. "Une Femme Est une Femme" ("A Woman is a Woman"), Jean-Luc Godard's second feature...

In the thirty-five years since its American release, Jean-Luc Godard's lyrical gangster romance "Band of Outsiders" has been as difficult to revisit as it is impossible to forget. Starting today, the first part of that equation is going to change. Rialto...

Here are my picks for the best of the 37th annual Chicago International Film Festival. 1. "Amelie" (France). Jean-Pierre Jeunet's delightful romantic fantasy about Paris, serendipity and a supremely generous young waitress. Oct. 7 and 11. 2. Critic'...

Here's a short list of the winter holiday season movies, which — from pedigree, advance buzz or actual viewings (in the case of "Va Savoir and "Band of Outsiders" — seem the top advance picks right now. "Va Savoir" ("Who Knows?"): Director, Jacques...

Between the end of summer and the edge of winter and the holiday season, the movies shrink. The budgets are lower; the weekend totals dip. As young acolytes await the second coming of Harry Potter on Nov. 15 and older fans count the days until Pierce...

Friday May 30, 1997      "Up/Down/Fragile," which launches a series of French films at the Grande 4-Plex, is not like any musical you have ever seen, but then its director, New Wave pioneer Jacques Rivette, is not like other filmmakers, either.      ...

Friday February 5, 1999      "Parker steals. Parker kills. It's a living." Or so claimed the paperback blurb copy for the series of drop-dead hard-boiled novels about a nerveless professional criminal that Donald Westlake wrote in the 1960s and '70s...