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By Chris Beaumont Milos Forman's latest film is preparing to arrive on theater screens on July 20. Goya's Ghosts will be Forman's first film since 1999's Man on the Moon starring Jim Carrey. This time Forman has turned his eye on Spanish artist Francisco Goya. The film is set during the end of the Spanish Inquis...

By Fletch Faubourg Saint-Denis - directed by Tom Tykwer, starring Melchior Beslon and Natalie Portman. From the director of one of my favorite films (Run Lola Run) comes my favorite short on display. A blind Parisian meets an American actress, they click, she moves to Paris, she screams, he studies...

By Alan Dale The movie version of Patrick Marber's 1997 play Closer opens with two beauties walking towards each other down a mobbed London sidewalk, the rhythm set by the Irishman Damien Rice's plaintive song "The Blower's Daughter". They move in the most languorous slow motion and so, like the pair...

By Lucas Brachish Garden State (2004) The ghost of iconoclast director Hal Ashby permeates writer-director-star Zach Braff's aesthetic even more than it informs auteur Wes Anderson. This is not a bad thing. Ashby is an oft-forgotten genius, and Braff builds on his techniques to establish himself as more...