Derek Jarman

After a few stagnant years, DVD sales have started to slip, and Blu-ray discs, despite the plummeting price of players, have yet to pick up the slack. But the crop of boxed sets is, if anything, more sumptuous than ever, in both content and presentation....

Milan, Italy WITH the sorry state of the global economy and the escalating cost of gas, why even bother changing out of your pajamas at all? Why not punch out, cocoon in your geodesic dome, dig in your garden, go on a Bohemian safari, become a...

There's nothing conventional about Tilda Swinton, who plays the stuffy, uptight corporate exec Karen Crowder in "Michael Clayton." Not her looks, her personal life, nor her career, which took another leap forward this week when she was nominated for a...

3 stars (out of four) "Stephanie Daley" is a movie that can wound you. This sophomore feature by writer-director Hilary Brougher, a Sundance prize-winner for best script, is a stark, painful drama about pregnancy--a subject rarely treated this fully,...

3-1/2 stars (out of 4) "Young Adam," an excellent film of the novel by Alexander Trocchi, is a literary adaptation that comes alive. It's a movie drama with a surface so bleak and an interior so hot with eroticism that it twists your guts to watch it....

"The Deep End" is melodrama dressed up in its Sunday best. Exquisitely made with a mesmerizing sense of style, it shows the wonderful things that can happen when traditional material is both handled with care and adroitly updated. Writer-directors...

Instead of proffering toga-clad, murderous malcontents all blinking uncertainly on the capitol steps in the Roman sunlight, director Barbara Gaines prefers to imagine classical political conspiracy in a more timeless and universally evocative location:...

Friday March 22, 1996      A nervous British actor named Grant has a slowly evolving romance with a beautiful, confident American. Sound familiar? Well, the producers of "Jack and Sarah" don't mind if you think so. But if you're looking to repeat your...

Friday September 1, 1995      In the title role of Michael Almereyda's "Nadja," an elegant, witty but also sometimes tedious spin on the legend of Dracula, Elina Lowensohn is a black-caped beauty with a bold Frida Kahlo face. A rich, restless denizen...