Peter Greenaway

On a misty day in August 1974, 1,350 feet above the Manhattan streets, French wire-walker Philippe Petit spent 45 minutes gliding back and forth between the south and the north towers of the World Trade Center, eight crossings in all. " Man on Wire"...

Paris designers looked to Hollywood with elaborate creations that will vie for "best dressed" on the red carpet. Cate Blanchett lit up the front row at Giorgio Armani's show, held on the third day of the autumn-winter haute couture collections. And...

"I do not want you to like me," says Johnny Depp at the top of "The Libertine," his eyes glowering in firelight like the devil incarnate. He couldn't have roused the audience more if he had challenged us to a duel, since it is the instinct of an actor...

If your art film tastes lean toward orderliness and tidy metaphors, you could spend the two hours of Russian filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovsky's fearless and mesmerizing debut feature, "4," cataloging foursomes. There are the four whimpering dogs on a rainy...

3½ stars (out of four) If someone ever turns Peter Rosen's documentary "Who Gets to Call It Art?" into a dramatic feature, Paul Giamatti might be the logical pick among current actors to play main subject Henry Geldzahler (1935-94), the gay, moon-faced,...

2½ stars (out of four) "Do you like me now?" Johnny Depp asks at the end of "The Libertine"--playing the title role of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, famed Restoration rake and wit. It's a cruel, mocking question in an intermittently fascinating,...

The headline of a recent magazine article about her - "Roman Goddess" - provokes a disapproving cluck from Isabella Rossellini. "I never read stories about myself," she says with only a cursory glance at her sparkling eyes, flawless complexion and full...

3½ stars (out of 4) Wild ambition and great achievement sometimes carry the seeds of their own destruction - a proposition that is both the central subject and dangerous stylistic temptation of Oliver Stone's vast, riveting, madly audacious movie...

It's not till the very end of "Girl With a Pearl Earring" that we get to see the actual 17th century Johannes Vermeer painting that inspired both Tracy Chevalier's bestselling novel and this film adaptation — and that is as it should be. For it...

To help you sort through the dozens of offerings of the Chicago Humanities Festival, Tribune critics offer a few suggestions. "Powder Her Face": 8 p.m. Nov. 3 and 7 p.m. Nov. 4, Museum of Contemporary Art (there's a panel discussion of the work 5 p.m....

To help you sort through the dozens of offerings of the Chicago Humanities Festival, Tribune critics offer a few suggestions. "Powder Her Face": Chicago premiere of British composer Thomas Ades' widely praised opera, "Powder Her Face," based on the...

In promotional materials for "Princess Turandot," the latest production from the ever-confounding European Repertory Theatre, credit is given to an "adapter" with the name of Ardath Bey. He must be an imaginative fellow, for this production of Carlo...