Even Frank Langella, an actor who can be counted on to put the pepper in mashed-potato parts, doesn’t find much variety in the monolithic goodness of the title character of “A Man for All Seasons.”
What does it say about our culture that “The Wrestler” and “Changeling,” the most prominent American films in the New York Film Festival, are shameless Oscar bait?
“Latinos ’08,” on PBS, is a zippy little film about the Hispanic vote in the current American presidential election that isn’t afraid to turn conventional wisdom on its head.
Every statue, vase and archaeological shard on display in “Ruins and the Rebirth of Art in Italy,” a show that opened last week at the Colosseum in Rome, has a story to tell.
In “Delwende” the African filmmaker S. Pierre Yameogo tackles social injustice in present-day Burkina Faso with grace, economy and exquisitely controlled anger.
Mr. Wright wrote three autobiographical novels about black street life in New York City that seemed to herald the rise of an important literary talent, then vanished into alcoholism and despair.