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A Painting, A Portrait

Peter Greenaway, the British director who was educated as a painter, first came to wide attention in 1982 with The Draughtsman’s Contract, a silky comedy about seventeenth-century aristocrats. Greenaway then promptly set out not to build on this ...

From STANLEY KAUFFMANN, The New Republic,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Rembrandt,  Peter Greenaway,  John Gielgud

Matters of Fact

In 1964 Christopher Isherwood published A Single Man, a novel about a homosexual man and his state of spirit after his lover dies. Now comes Chris & Don, a documentary film about Isherwood's lover and his state of spirit since Chris's death. The ...

From STANLEY KAUFFMANN, The New Republic,  24 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Christopher Isherwood,  BBC,  Truman Capote,  Tennessee Williams,  Terry Southern

Kauffmann: Films Worth Seeing

Araya. Made in 1959, acclaimed at Cannes but skimpily released, this exceptional documentary is very deservedly brought forth again. Shot in stunning black and white, this account of salt workers on the coast of Venezuela tells the truth about their ...

From STANLEY KAUFFMANN, The New Republic,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: J. M. Coetzee,  John Malkovich,  Claire Denis

Stanley Kauffmann on Films

J.M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace has been made into a film that, in good measure, is faithful to it. Along with the admiration that obviously drew them to the book, the film-makers had to deal with some heavy data. Coetzee is a Nobel laureate; Disgrace ...

From STANLEY KAUFFMANN, The New Republic,  10 Oct 2009

Related Topics: John Malkovich,  J. M. Coetzee,  Humphrey Bogart,  Paul Newman

Attitudes, Plus Love

David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews With Hideous Men has been adapted for the screen. Well, parts of it have been adapted--chiefly, the four parts that bear the same title as the book and the film. Wallace’s book is a miscellany of prose outbursts, ...

From STANLEY KAUFFMANN, The New Republic,  3 Oct 2009

Related Topics: David Foster Wallace,  John Krasinski,  A. O. Scott,  John Bailey,  Julianne Nicholson

Films Worth Seeing

The Baader Meinhof Complex The giant wave of terrorism that swept Germany in 1967-1977, led by the so-called Baader Meinhof gang, is here treated intelligently,, revealingly. The young perpetrators are explored, the picture sears, the viewer is left ...

From STANLEY KAUFFMANN, The New Republic,  21 Sep 2009

Related Topics: David Foster Wallace

'The Girl From Monaco' Gives The Classic French Film A Sexual, Menacing Facelift. PLUS: 'Quiet Chaos' And The Meaning Of Loss.

Nanni Moretti, treasured in Europe, is scarcely known in the United States. This schism usually happens with film people whose work is strapped culturally to one country, but Moretti's writing and directing and acting are not only celebrated in Italy, ...

From STANLEY KAUFFMANN, The New Republic,  15 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Woody Allen,  Nanni Moretti

What Does It Mean To Commemorate Lives In Film?

Naturally enough, the New Wave is rolling back. The tide of new French talent that flooded world screens just before and after 1960--bringing Godard, Truffaut, Rohmer, Rivette, Resnais, and Chabrol, among others--has been ebbing for some time. Movingly ...

From STANLEY KAUFFMANN, The New Republic,  11 Jul 2009

Related Topics: Gerard Depardieu

'Seraphine' Reminds Us, Marvelously, Just How Eerie The Disposition Of Talent Can Be

Seraphine de Senlis (1864-1942) was a servant and a painter. She worked as a housemaid, a laundress, a butcher's helper, anything she could find. She also painted, in her room at night. Some of her work now hangs in museums. The French director Martin ...

From STANLEY KAUFFMANN, The New Republic,  20 Jun 2009

Related Topics: Yolande Moreau (actor)

The Art Of Elision: 'Summer Hours' Is Best For What It Manages To Leave Out

The French writer-director Olivier Assayas, experienced and versatile, is now defiant. He certainly knows that one of the most frequently recurrent film themes is social change. Still, he bravely engages this familiar theme in his new film, Summer ...

From STANLEY KAUFFMANN, The New Republic,  6 Jun 2009

Related Topics: Olivier Assayas,  Arturo Toscanini

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