Has critical taste become fossilized? A new greatest-films poll yields some odd results, but poses old questions
By Andrew O'Hehir Jul 14, 2009
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Combining time-travel thriller and experimental film, Terry Gilliam's 1995 oddball classic steals a tale of doomed love and cruel fate from Hitchcock -- then pays back the debt.
By Virginia Vitzthum
August 19, 2002
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Whenever I meet a woman who is beautiful but uneasy with it -- and there are a lot of them -- I get that strange Novak feeling.
By David Thomson
February 16, 2001
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In "Vertigo" we fall for Kim Novak at the same time James Stewart does.
By David Thomson
December 1, 2000
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The tale of a strange quest, haunted by the ghost of Kafka, from one of the oddest great writers around.
By Brigitte Frase
June 26, 2000
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Swedish popsters Cinnamon have the singer, the songs and the sheen. They're like the Cardigans -- for smart people.
By Joey Sweeney
April 12, 2000
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Damien Bona talks about "American Beauty" and Warren Beatty, "Titanic" and Roberto Benigni and more than 70 years of the academy's hits and misses.
By Bill Wyman
March 24, 2000
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Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz bring the reds, whites, blacks and blues back into Hitchcock's nimble masterpiece about the burden of perception.
By Michael Sragow
February 10, 2000
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James Stewart loves watching the defectives in Hitchcock's restored peeping-tom thriller.
By Charles Taylor
January 21, 2000
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Hitchcock may have been a master of many things, but his goofy endings were like a dead cockroach found at the bottom of a near-perfect cinematic sundae.
By Steve Burgess
August 13, 1999
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Camille Paglia talks about why Hitchcock has more to do with Madonna than he does with pomo theorists.
By Michael Sragow
August 13, 1999
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Alfred Hitchcock's first rule of directing was to treat actors like cattle -- and even in his own cameos, he was no sacred cow.
By Sarah Vowell
August 11, 1999
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Orson Welles' recently reissued noir classic 'Touch of Evil' may be the sleaziest good movie ever made.
By Charles Taylor
September 10, 1998
Quentin over Fellini? "Annie Hall" over Antonioni?
"12 Monkeys"
A funny valentine
The look of love
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