The Leopard

There is a certain folly in adapting great works of art for film: as Hitchcock and Truffaut explained in their legendary conversations, a gr...

Close-Up

Abbas Kiarostami's greatest film is also, deceptively contrary to his usually poetic style, his most intellectual. The story of a real-l...

A Bug's Life

Following the game-changing success of Toy Story , Pixar still had something to prove but also won themselves a great deal more breathing ro...

Breaking Bad — Season 1

Breaking Bad has ridden such a tidal wave of critical adulation -- perhaps the most effusive since The Wire earned every plaudit under the...

Red Desert

Michelangelo did not quite set the world on fire with his major trilogy at the start of the '60s -- L'Avventura , La Notte and L...

Batman Returns

Tim Burton's Batman , for its numerous flaws, continues to stand out today for creating the first superhero movie with an identifiable a...

Week End

By 1967, less than eight years after he split the cinematic world open with Breathless , Jean-Luc Godard had completed 14 features and nearl...