Fleeing Urban Anomie for Elusive Country Comforts. Atsushi Funahashi's moody wisp of a film paints a bleak neo-realist vision of the Lower East Side and its mating rituals.
By Stephen Holden. [New York Times: Movies]
Driving Men, and Women, Crazy. Joseph Gai Ramaka's loony restaging of Bizet's "Carmen" is enormously likable, partly because it is aware of its own grasp of the absurd.
By Elvis Mitchell. [New York Times: Movies]
At a Festival, Documentaries as History. Many of the most compelling films at this year's Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, formerly the DoubleTake Festival, dealt with historical events.
By Stephen Kinzer. [New York Times: Arts]