Andy Klein
Stories by Andy Klein
Storytelling Sleight-of-Hand
Ever since his breakthrough with the international success of A Man and a Woman
Fantastic Landscapes
The summer I was eight years old, I was driven to camp every day – along with five or six other kids
The Empire Strikes Out
From the country that brought you Godard and Resnais! ... Children of Paradise and The Grand Illusion! ... Sartre and Genet! ... comes OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies! – which may just be the silliest movie I’ve ever seen
Prisoners of Folly and Evil
Standard Operating Procedure might seem like an obvious place for documentarian Errol Morris to go after making The Fog of War, his Oscar-winning 2003 portrait/interview of Vietnam-era Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara
Cinderella Stories
One by one, the remaining gaps in the massive DVD catalog are being filled in
Time and Time Again
While 88 Minutes – the wretched new Al Pacino thriller – actually runs 108 minutes, Four Minutes is about 110 minutes, which is just fine, since, unlike the Pacino film, Chris Kraus’s drama (winner of the German equivalent of the Oscar) fills its length with minor mysteries and compelling characters
Win Ben Stein's Sympathy
ilm critic confession #342: It is impossible to review an informational documentary without assessing (to some degree) the reliability of its information. This, of course, requires being an expert
Journey to the West
The most obvious selling point of The Forbidden Kingdom is the first-ever onscreen teaming of Jackie Chan and Jet Li
'Alexandra' the Great
There are very few filmmakers with the technique, style, and sheer will to create strange, instantly accessible worlds that not only draw the viewer in, but also remain in the mind as places worthy of revisiting
Lost and Found
It’s bad enough that – more than a decade into the DVD revolution – there are still John Ford and Howard Hawks films that have never been issued on DVD
