This year the Walker Art Center marks the 10th anniversary of its "Women With Vision" film festival. This year's theme, "On the Move," highlights issues of migration and movement of people not just today,...

In the pantheon of American movie directors, Gus Van Sant stands out as one of the brightest stars to have emerged in the past twenty years. From his edgy indie pictures to an Academy Award-nominated blockbuster,...

In the United States there is a tendency to think about movies as an American form. They seem to be our exclusive domain, though we occasionally share them with Europeans when they want to make deep, artsy...

Staring out the window earlier this winter I thought it was a particularly cruel trick that it should be so cold without snow, which would make it at least aesthetically appealing to be outside. For those...

If you think Minneapolis, save for its complement of professional sports teams is, in Hubert H. Humphrey's memorable phrase, no more than a "cold Omaha," you would do well to consider the broad range of...

Far From Heaven" is a 2002 film made to look like a genuine 1950s melodrama with one discernable difference: It confronts the issues that 1950s films never could. "Far From Heaven" is about the "perfect"...

Solaris," the Steven Soderbergh version of Andrei Tarkovsky's classic Soviet science fiction film from 1972, is a prime example of why Hollywood should not be allowed to remake foreign films. Even when...

Long ago, in a time before the United States or the Bush dynasty, Plato said, "They deem him their worst enemy who tells the truth." The "they" he is referring to is undefined, but perhaps it is the same...

Anyone can play the devil - even myself - but give someone the role of God and you'll always have problems." So remarks a minor character in Luis Buñuel's "Illusion Travels by Streetcar" ("La Ilusión...