Nick Pinkerton

In 1988, the fate of Chile and its dictator came down to a ballot as simple as a middle-schooler's Do-you-like-me? note. A referendum, demanded by international pressure, offered citizens a simple choice: a "yes" for allowing President Augusto Pinochet to return to office for another eight years, or a "no"...

Two sacred texts of the '50s proto-counterculture have escaped the rapacious machine of cinema adaptation for a half-century. One is J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, which probably only would have worked starring Salinger himself, and Jack Kerouac's On the Road, that ecstatic recount of crossings and recrossings of North...

In 1988, the fate of Chile and its dictator came down to a ballot as simple as a middle-schooler’s Do-you-like-me? note. A referendum, demanded by international pressure, offered citizens a simple choice: a “yes” for allowing President Augusto Pinochet to return to office for another eight years, or a “no”...

"It's hard to get these things started," says Walter Hill, dean of the American action movie, speaking to me from Los Angeles. "Action films are, by their very nature, more expensive than what are sometimes called, in the independent world, 'relationship films.' But I despise these categories. I've never made...

There are two things that are certain in life. One is that death will come for every one of us. The other is that every film Michael Haneke makes will have a fair shot at the Cannes Palme d'Or. Amour, Haneke's much-garlanded latest, is set almost entirely within a well-appointed...