BOOKS & THE ARTS - FILMS - Rites of Stardom - Alfie anoints Jude Law; Callas Forever honors the great opera diva.

by Kauffmann, Stanley
Published in The new republic (2004)

ON FILMS: TRAGIC AND OTHERWISE The Truce obscures Primo Levi; Wild Man Blues reveals Woody Allen all too well.

by Kauffmann, Stanley
Published in The new republic (1998)

BOOKS & THE ARTS - FILMS - Plots, Thick and Thin - The Manchurian Candidate masterminds its material; She Hate Me is a well-directed blunder.

by Kauffmann, Stanley
Published in The new republic (2004)

ON FILMS: DREAM TIME - A new film version of A Midsummer Night's Dream has too many gimmicks and not enough good performances.

by Kauffmann, Stanley
Published in The new republic (1999)

ON FILMS: MORE THAN FACTS - Five Holocaust stories are powerfully told in The Last Days; Hands on a Hard Body is the light-hearted tale of a truck.

by Kauffmann, Stanley
Published in The new republic (1999)

ON Films: AROUND SEVERAL WORLDS West Beirut is mournfully revealing; Mickey Blue Eyes is depressingly unrevealing.

by Kauffmann, Stanley
Published in The new republic (1999)

BOOKS AND THE ARTS - FILMS - REALISMS - A light film from a dark land; the shapes of relationships; surrealism today.

by Kauffmann, Stanley
Published in The new republic (2008)

ON FILMS: GETTING BETTER UP

by Kauffmann, Stanley
Published in The new republic (1996)

ON FILMS: COLOR LINES Warren Beatty's nobly flawed Bulworth.

by Kauffmann, Stanley
Published in The new republic (1998)

ON FILMS: SENSE AND SENSIBILITY - David Lynews Mulholland Drive is a sensual testament to the senselessness of the world.

by Kauffmann, Stanley
Published in The new republic (2001)