Film

John Sayles’ The Secret of Roan Inish has a quiet, under-your-skin excitement; it’s a rare and rapturous reminder of the power of cinematic storytelling. Compared with a lot of big-budget product—cobbled by committee and driven […]

Over the years, John le Carre has been neither shy nor disingenuous about screen treatments of his books, and even co-wrote two of the adaptations. A Most Wanted Man, based on his 2008 bestseller, marked […]

Howards End has one of the most unforgettable openings in cinema history. Through a soft summer twilight a woman walks slowly, familiarly through an outer garden of bluebells. She is a beautiful woman of a […]

The evenhanded comments of some thoughtful film critics regarding Le Weekend were popularly reduced to a meme along the lines of “dispiritingly prickly” or “a bitter pill”.  For those of you who may yet be […]