Wong Kar-wai

Cannes Film Festival: Presenting the only Cannes awards that really matter: Ours

Flight of the Red Balloon is an enigmatic masterpiece

Hou Hsiao-hsien's tale of a lonely mother and son takes flight

Around the World in a Thousand Words

This year's Cannes Film Festival offered treasures from Russia, Mexico, Romania, and China

Bait and Switch

'Departed' hero of the Hong Kong new wave returns the compliment

The Year in Film 2005

'Departed' hero of the Hong Kong new wave returns the compliment

The Pope of Cinema

'Henri Langlois' doesn't just preach to the converted

Getting Into a Tiff

High-Intensity Moviegoing at the Toronto International Film Festival

Tony! Tony! Tony!

The seductive star of '2046' reveals the method of his mood

Endless Love

In '2046,' the world's greatest living filmmaker fails to forget the past

Breaking and Entering

Wong Kar-wai and Kim Ki-duk steal time

Can't Take My Eyes Off You

Wong's 'Hand' Offers Cinephilic Foreplay in 'Eros'

Cruel Stories of Youth

Wong's 'Hand' Offers Cinephilic Foreplay in 'Eros'

The Accidental Tourist

Surveying China with Hero cinematographer Christopher Doyle

Fighting The Good Fight

With arrows flying and swords clanking, Jet Li holds Out for a Hero

What Moore Cannes Go Wong?

The personal schmoozes the political at the world's most influential film fest

The Movie Lovers

The world makes out all right at the International Film Festival

Say What?

The Venice Film Festival gives voice to the global cacophony

Oh, The Gaul!

Rancorous "Anti-Americanism" reigns at the 56th Cannes Film Festival

Brothers in Arms

A 14-film retrospective charts the turbulent partnership of Akira Kurosawa and his warrior muse

Zooropa

The Animal Collective get intimate with their audience

Skin Flicks

The naked truth about putting together a regional showcase like the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival. And a revealing body of blurbs about the best and the not-best of the fest.

The Year in Film

The National Entertainment State Stands Firm--Then Runs Away

A Better Tomorrow

Director Tsui Hark returns to his Hong Kong roots for Time and Tide

The Plaisir Principle

Or, Cannes 2001: How to love the movies without hating yourself

One Life to Live

Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love lingers at the crossroads of impossible romance and infinite possibility

Keeping Cool

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is well-balanced to a fault

The Year in Film

What you see is (not) what you get: Twelve months of well-screened duds and rarely viewed wonders

Artists Of The Year

From escapist entertainment to aesthetic ecstasy: Twenty-nine writers script valentines to twelve months of culture

Maple Leaf Rag

From escapist entertainment to aesthetic ecstasy: Twenty-nine writers script valentines to twelve months of culture

Escape to New York

After a summer full of multiplex fodder, the New York Film Festival provides an unpretentious showcase for arty cinema

Auteur Overboard

French blockbuster maker Luc Besson delivers his non-awaited director's cut of The Big Blue

Eastern Standard Time

While Western art cinema draws the flashbulbs at Cannes, contemplative works from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong leave the festival glowing in klieg lights from the East

The Year in Film

1999 brought a cinematic bounty to the art house and the multiplex alike

The Beat Generation

Violent Cop and Boiling Point reveal the roots of Takeshi Kitano's bloody funny cinema

The Year in Film

The movies of '98 posed the question: Haven't we seen this somewhere before?

This Mortal Coil

The movies of '98 posed the question: Haven't we seen this somewhere before?

Islands in the Stream

Happy Together and Vive L'Amour find the films of Hong Kong and Taiwan in the throes of a sexual revolution.

The Ties That Bind

Her life to live: Alice Houri in Claire Denis's Nénette et Boni

The Year in Film

In 1997, independence was not a status so much as a state of mind.

Artists Of The Year

We list the best of the best of 1997.

Raiders of the Lost Art

Has the artsyplex boom housebroken the independent film? A partisan's manifesto.

Lars, Wong, "Beat," Bruno, and Youssef

The New York Film Festival's new New Wave--and the industry's same old neglect.

Bodies of Work

Writes of Passage: Vivian Wu in The Pillow Book

Inspecting the Cannes

In its 50th year, is the world's most prestigious film festival showing its age?

The Year in Film

The view from here to Scotland, Hong Kong, and Fargo

As Time Goes Wild

Chungking Express changes the tempo of pop cinema.

Holing Up for the Holidays

A critic's guide to getting away from the multiplexes.