Admitting that Casablanca is one of your favorite movies is sort of embarrassing. It's too obvious and mainstream a choice, too cliched an emblem of the “silver screen” for a connoisseur of cinema.
“Death cannot stop true love,” says Westley. “All it can do is delay it for a while.”
A Private Life (or Vie Privée in its native tongue) shifts into a low-key Hitchcockian mystery with a sly edge of stinging, acerbic comedy.
The strange, sad episode is dramatized in Dead Man’s Wire by Gus Van Sant, from a script by Austin Kolodney.
In this slow post-holiday movie season, a film buff road trip may be in order. The Tucson J International Film Festival kicks off this week at the Tucson Jewish Community Center and other area venues, and continues through Sunday, January 18.
Movie reviews for "The Alto Knights" and "On Becoming a Guinea Fowl"
Still from The Proposal, a film by Jill Magid Steve Weiss loves film, and he loves architecture. He also loves Arizona. So, it’s only natural that Weiss would get around to launching the Arizona Architectural Film Showcase. The all-day series presents three indie documentaries on architectural themes on Saturday, April 22; two of them during the day at Phoenix Center for the Arts Third Street Theater, and a third as an outdoor screening that evening...
Little Women—There have been multiple screen adaptations of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved novel, and all of them have their merits. Katherine Hepburn seemed born to play heroine Jo March in George Cukor’s 1933 film, and Elizabeth Taylor seemed born to play Amy in Mervyn LeRoy’s 1949 rendering. For my money, the best, most balanced and beautiful version yet was Gillian Armstrong’s, from 1994, with Winona Ryder’s best performance ever as Jo, and a luminous Claire...
A documentary, a dark drama and a Spanish animated film hit theaters this weekend.
Catch these two poignant films this weekend for a dose of drama.
Don't miss this indie dramady and emotional documentary in theaters this week.
High Life, Little and Sunset hit the big screens in the Valley this weekend.
Check out our definitive list of movies to watch in the Valley this upcoming weekend.
The 19th annual Phoenix Film Festival kicks off Thursday, April 4, and continues through April 14 at its usual, conveniently concentrated venue, Harkins Scottsdale 101.
