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France may no longer be the pinnacle of world cinema, but their official awards show, The Cesars, have at least succeeded in one way where the academy blew it: Denis Lavant got a best actor nomination for Holy Motors! The...

Every so often, when writers and editors apparently have no better ideas at that moment, they will write alarmist think pieces bemoaning the "death of cinema." Most of the arguments usually boil down to three factors: big-budget blockbusters sucking up...

While there's still a fairly widely-embraced stereotype that European films are more cultured, daring and intelligent (or pretentious, if you want) than films from other countries, I've learned since moving to France that Europe, in fact, produces as much, if...

I start this new year on the road with no relative home or job to speak of. In this state of flux cinema feels like the only anchor and identifying marker of self I currently have. Perhaps it is also...

Another year older and what do you get? Another crop of kick ass movies, that's what. And if the crop is where celluloid images are stored prior to digestion, this column is the gizzard where their contents are broken down...

This was a great year in film for me, for two big reasons. One: great sci-films are making a comeback, ones that care about story, not just explosions. Two: the classical, cause-and-effect narrative, where the audience is led by the...

Amid fiscal cliffs and digital revolutions, we are all adrift on a sea of change. Never mind that your boat-mate may be a hungry Bengal tiger, sometimes it's hard enough just to keep your head above water.To date, I've viewed...

And thus ends another year and now comes the time when every critic in the world is compiling their annual best of lists. Every Joe with an internet connection is arming himself with a stock array of adverbs that only...