Jean-Luc Godard

Outrageous without being offensive, provocatively and unapologetically sexual, alive to the possibilities of life and cinema, Alfonso Cuaron's "Y Tu Mama Tambien" is a sophisticated film happily masquerading as something off the cuff. Nominally a...

Film fans, prepare for a busy, gratifying fall. In addition to the spate of remakes, sequels and prequels at the cineplex, the art-house calendar might as well be wrapped in a celluloid ribbon. Dates have yet to be finalized in most cases, but there are...

Seconds before the Palme d'Or winner was announced Sunday night, a TV camera caught popular favorite Nanni Moretti anxiously rubbing his brow. He needn't have worried. His "La Stanza del Figlio" (The Son's Room) became the first Italian film in more...

MOVIES CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL The 37th annual festival swings into full gear this week with a strong schedule at several venues, including the Music Box Theatre (3733 N. Southport Ave.) and the Landmark Century Centre Cinema (2828 N....

Friday September 26, 1997      What a smart move the Nuart has made in presenting each night a different major Jean-Luc Godard film as a second feature to his latest, "For Ever Mozart," which opens a one-week run today. That's because "For Ever Mozart"--...

Friday January 27, 1995      Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy are in practically every frame of "Before Sunrise," so it's a good thing they're so engaging.      In the end, they never become much * more than engaging, but the characters' deeply-felt...

Friday May 31, 1996      Mark Rappaport's venturesome "From the Journals of Jean Seberg" imagines that the ill-fated actress, an apparent suicide in 1979 at age 40, has risen from the grave to tell us the story of her roller coaster life. Mary Beth...

Thursday December 12, 1996      The ridiculous 14 years that it's taken Michelangelo Antonioni's sublime "Identification of a Woman" to open here merely underlines the timelessness and modernity of one of the world's greatest living directors.      ...

Friday February 14, 1997      Michael Benson's "Predictions of Fire" is a provocative, dense and demanding exploration of the relationship of art, politics and war as it has been played out over the turbulent 20th century in what was once Yugoslavia.   ...

Friday June 6, 1997      Young people in French films always seem so much more serious and reflective than their American counterparts, and that can be quite beguiling, as in the case of Laetitia Masson's low-key, pitch-perfect first feature, "To Have...

Friday July 4, 1997      It's one thing for a film to retain every bit of its worth after more than 30 years, but more impressive is the ability to be increasingly relevant and moving with the passage of time. Such is the case with Jean-Luc Godard's 1963...

Wednesday May 3, 1995      Jean-Luc Godard called the well-brought-up radicals of the 1960s "the children of Marx and Coca-Cola" and a twist on that celebrated phrase is applicable to "Panther," an examination of the Black Panther Party, and its director...