Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: The Last Stand, the first American film by gifted Korean director Kim Ji-woon (I Saw The ...

Jacques Demy’s first films, from the nineteen-sixties—starting with “Lola” and including the musical melodrama “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg”—were among the era’s prime works of stylish and stylized ...

Whether positive or negative in outlook—and whether helmed by insiders or outsiders—most of the late-’60s/early-’70s movies that dealt with the American ...

Notwithstanding era and country of origin, it would be imprudent to associate Jacques Demy with the French New Wave. Unlike Godard’s or Resnais’s interest in innovation, Demy’s traditionalism never ...

that's available right at hand, to anyone with well tuned eyes. The movie itself does some of the tuning. Specifically, it's a story of love at first sight. making the best job you can out of the Army ...