With American Movie, director Chris Smith finds the heart of cinema in the unlikely environs of Milwaukee

Can this year's Minnesota Independent Film Fund winners marshal their scripts to the screen?

In his 19th licensed escapade, Agent 007 appears reliably randy but rather tired

Master of perversity Gregg Araki looks for the right angle on boy-girl sex

Kevin Smith's Dogma is a buddy movie by the Book

Martin Scorsese accelerates his efforts, while David Lynch slows down to enjoy the scenery

Being John Malkovich is easier done than said

Even in the Giuliani era, the New York Film Festival brings the beautiful and the blasphemous to American shores

Two weeks before falling into a coma, Martin Lawrence was hardly talking a Blue Streak

Produced and abandoned, the made-in-Minnesota wrestling comedy The Naked Man falls into a Hollywood sleeper hold

Constricted by the social taboos of the Eisenhower era, director and master melodramatist Douglas Sirk explored the mores of more

Unlike the flop-sweating neurotics of his comedies, Albert Brooks the director shows none of the comedian's high anxiety

"The Complete Truffaut" polishes the reputation of French cinema's perpetual adolescent

Stanley Kubrick's long-delayed Eyes Wide Shut sets out to baffle and bore Tom Cruise fans--and succeeds impeccably

The Blair Witch Project's co-directors scare up interest in their horror film by terrorizing conventions

Director Spike Lee makes the headlines by taking the tabloid approach to his disco-era thriller Summer of Sam

Jennifer Fox's intimate nine-hour saga, An American Love Story, continues the legacy of domestic documentaries

Ameri-Cannes: Screening the Yanks

While American critics script eulogies for foreign film, this year's festival at Cannes suggests that reports of its death are an exaggeration

George Lucas resurrects his sacred franchise by Force in Star Wars: Episode I--The Phantom Menace

The ambitious Heights Theatre stretches to bring upscale cinema to an audience outside of Uptown

The Austrian film Funny Games homes in on the meaning--and meaninglessness--of horror

Cruel Intentions consummates Hollywood's latest seduction of American youth

Paul Schrader's tale of a rampaging New England cop delves into the inferno of abusive masculinity

The annual case of contagious hype and acquisitions mania at the Sundance Film Festival

The democratic comedies of Preston Sturges give uncommon words to the common man