Andrei Tarkovsky

A Second Look: Aleksandr Sokurov's calling card in three literary adaptations

2013-02-02 00:00:00

In 1999, the Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov, the prolific filmmaker who remains probably best known for the 2002 art-house hit "Russian Ark," launched the eccentric Men of Power tetralogy, dealing mainly with the obscure inner lives of 20th-century...

Telluride taps Geoff Dyer as guest director

2012-06-11 16:39:22

Tonino Guerra dies at 92; renowned Italian screenwriter

2012-03-24 00:00:00

Tonino Guerra, an internationally renowned Italian screenwriter who collaborated with Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and other greats of Italian and world cinema on films such as Fellini's "Amarcord" and Antonioni's "L'Avventura" and "Blow-Up,"...

Art review: 'Fazal Sheikh: Beloved Daughters' at the Museum of Photographic Arts

2009-11-06 16:32:40

Ian Birnie sees encouraging signs from turmoil at LACMA

2009-09-11 00:00:00

In his role as the head of the film department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Ian Birnie said his professional relationship with his boss was distant verging on nonexistent. And the majority of the museum's curatorial staff showed little or no...

An earthy dreamer

2006-01-29 00:00:00

Obviously, Carlos Reygadas hasn't flown all this way from Madrid just to talk about oral sex. But lately it's been a tough subject for him to avoid. Ever since last summer, when the young Mexican writer-director's second feature film, "Batalla en el...

PASSINGS

2009-05-26 00:00:00

Susanna Agnelli Member of Fiat dynasty Susanna Agnelli, 87, a member of Italy's powerful Fiat auto dynasty and a former foreign minister, died May 15 in a Rome hospital. She had been at Gemelli Polyclinic since April 3 after breaking a leg in a fall....

'Sunshine' brought Danny Boyle back to his sci-fi loving childhood

2007-07-26 00:00:00

Danny Boyle can smell fear. And he loves it. It takes the filmmaker back to why he got into the movies in the first place. "When I was in college, I remember reading about how this movie Alien was just scaring people to death in America," he says....

'Solaris' SF Author Lem Dies at 84

2006-03-27 00:00:00

Stanislaw Lem, the science fiction writer behind the movie "Solaris" starring George Clooney, has died at age 84. The world-renowned author died of heart failure in a hospital in Krakow, Poland on Monday, March 27, according to published reports. He...

Movie review: Night Watch'

2006-02-17 14:44:52

3� stars (out of four) "Night Watch" is a contemporary Russian movie that you could honestly call revolutionary, more for its style than its politics. In this full-throttle science fiction tale of vampires, shape-shifters and warring supernatural armies,...

'Father and Son'

2004-06-25 00:00:00

Alexander Sokurov's "Father and Son" is about as atypical a parent-child relationship drama as can be imagined. In its ambiguous, elliptical opening sequence, two men, naked to the waist, are glimpsed in cropped images that are sexually suggestive. It...

'Solaris' (1972)

2002-11-22 00:00:00

The Nuart today brings back Andrei Tarkovsky's beautiful and astonishing 1972 masterpiece "Solaris" for a one-week engagement in advance of the Nov. 27 opening of Steven Soderbergh's remake starring George Clooney. In 1976 the Nuart held three...

Science-fiction writer Stanislaw Lem, March 27 Polish writer Stanislaw Lem, one of the most popular science-fiction authors of recent decades to write in a language other than English, died on Monday, March 27, 2006, near Krakow, Poland. He was 84.

2006-03-28 00:00:00