Flicks w/ The Film Snob

Eugene Jarecki's documentary about American militarism is an excellent example of how a political film should be made

Never has a filmmaker been so influential with such a short career as the French director Jean Vigo

A Scanner Darkly is a genuinely dark social satire that sticks to its guns right to the end

Among the world's best filmmakers today, I would have to include Hou Hsiao-hsien

Written and directed by first-timer Rian Johnson, this is one of those movies that comes at you from left field

In Dominik Moll's new film, the happy life of a young affluent couple is undermined through the influence of an older, more sinister pair

This is a movie that respects the darkness that young people experience in life

The name of the film is An Inconvenient Truth because to recognize the truth about the threat to our environment means making a fundamental shift in the way we do things

French director Olivier Assayas is good at fashioning dramas that respect the loose ends and uneven flow of real life

Ritwik Ghatak, who died in 1976 at the age of 51, was one of India's greatest and most admired directors, but he is still little known in the West

Among the geniuses of American film comedy, Preston Sturges holds a special place

Veteran director Robert Altman is at his best in loosely structured films where actors are allowed to stretch and flaunt the more eccentric side of their talents

This stirring film not only documents a period of our history that featured unprecedented political courage and commitment, but has obvious relevance for today

In Munich in 1942, a 21-year-old university student named Sophie Scholl helped launch, with her older brother Hans and other friends, an underground anti-Nazi group called The White Rose

You may not have heard of the songwriter Daniel Johnston, yet it's his very obscurity that made his career