Vincent Gallo

Can Cannes bounce back from "The Brown Bunny"? Or will Michael Moore's already controversial "Fahrenheit 9/11" dominate the international movie showcase, which begins again Wednesday on the southern coast of France? Last year's Cannes Film Festival --...

Friday February 2, 1996      An award winner at the Sundance Film Festival in 1995, "Angela" has taken more than a year to get a theatrical release and the reasons why are symptomatic of the intellectual stultification affecting the film business. How do...

Friday November 8, 1996      Abel Ferrara's "The Funeral" takes us down the familiar mean streets of the period gangster picture as if we hadn't been there many times before.      Ferrara and his frequent co-writer, Nicholas St. John, typically match...

The New Jersey layabouts in "Palookaville" make the at-loose-ends L.A. guys in "Swingers" look as directed as the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Would-be tough guys, would-be romantic successes, would-be a lot of things, these three pals fumble whatever they...

Friday May 2, 1997      "Truth or Consequences, N.M." takes us down a familiar killers-on-the-run road only to swerve in enough unexpected directions to make it a fresh, exciting and thoroughly involving thriller. It's a strong first directorial outing...

Tuesday July 11, 1995      "Arizona Dream" is the quintessential Nuart movie. It's a dazzling, daring slice of cockamamie tragicomic Americana envisioned with magic realism by a major, distinctive European filmmaker, the former Yugoslavia's Emir...