Jean Cocteau

In the harrowing "Down by Love," the exquisite Patricía Kovács, one of Hungary's leading young actresses, and director Tamás Sas walk a tightrope from start to finish and never falter for a second. For 92 minutes Kovács holds the screen while the...

Once seen, never forgotten, "Eyes Without a Face" is a film to haunt your dreams. Disturbing, disorienting, quietly terrifying, it's one of the least known of the world's great horror movies and, in its own dark way, a startlingly beautiful and artful...

As much as any country on the globe, France has made great films during every decade of cinema's existence, and Paris shops have the paper evidence to prove it. The city has numerous places to buy posters, magazines and books, stores that are fertile...

The agonies of love take poetic flight in the Mexican film "A Thousand Clouds of Peace Fence the Sky, Love, Your Being Love Will Never End." The feature debut of writer and director Julián Hernández, a fine new talent and precocious aesthete — the...

There is something about the vast vistas, bright colors, clearly delineated lines, and fantastical shapes and formations of the American desert that go hand in hand with Surrealism as with no other art form. What better place than the Phoenix Art...

Friday May 24, 1996      Goran Paskaljevic's "Someone Else's America" is the most endearing and affectionate of folk tales, celebrating friendship and the treacherous immigrant experience in all its sorrow and joy.      This is one of the most "foreign"...

Mohsen Makhmalbaf's "Gabbeh" is as exquisite as the kind of carpet that gives the film its name. In the remote steppes of southeastern Iran, now almost extinct nomadic tribes have for centuries woven gabbeh, carpets that serve as a record of incidents...