Satyajit Ray

With 40 foreign-language Oscar contenders, a 15-hour movie about the history of movies, and appearances by Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Michelle Williams, this year’s Palm Springs International Film Festival will cater to a wide spectrum of...

The Good Muslim A Novel Tahmima Anam Harper: 297 pp., $25.99 Maya Haque is one of the century's most interesting characters: prickly, passionate, tender, selfless, headstrong, devoted, belligerent, idealistic, naive, wise. "The Good Muslim" is Maya'...

Ravi Shankar, at 91, performing at Walt Disney Concert Hall Thursday night, gave a thrilling, flabbergasting demonstrated that the meaning of modern legend. Mark Swed reviews....

On Wednesday, the motion picture academy announced the four honorees to be feted at the second annual Governors Awards on Nov. 14. Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola is to receive the Thalberg Award while film historian Kevin Brownlow, French auteur Jean-...

As expected, French auteur Jean-Luc Godard is unlikely to attend the Governors Awards on Nov. 14 to accept his honorary Oscar. In a candid conversation with a reporter from The Australian, his companion Anne-Marie Mieville revealed his disappointment that...

It's hard to approach a new film by Wes Anderson without feeling like you've walked into an argument. There's something about his dollhouse aesthetic, his storybook formality, his miniaturist's attention to detail and his dogged belief in the power of...

Three boys head off to see their mother, though only one of them knows where they're going, and why. "We're just trying to experience something," says the one played by Owen Wilson, his head bandaged owing to a recent motorcycle accident. They are...

Hipsters have been traveling to India for decades to imbue their ironic, image-conscious lives with meaning. Blame the Beatles for making it the West's one-stop country for spirituality (an image from which India has undoubtedly benefited). So it was...

The big surprise of the L.A. Film Critics Assn. awards, which were announced today, was that the critics group gave its best picture award, along with the best picture runner-up, to two of the biggest-grossing movies of the year, "Wall-E" and "The Dark...

Elvis is in the building. The American Cinematheque's Mods & Rockers festival celebrates the life and legacy of the King with a six-day tribute featuring several of Presley's most successful films, plus the 2005 CBS miniseries "Elvis" and two...

Friday June 25, 1999      "My Son the Fanatic" opens with what should be a high point in the life of Parvez (Om Puri), born in Pakistan, but for the last 25 years a cabdriver in the northern English city of Bradford.      Parvez and his wife are...