Clifford Terry

With Labor Day bringing a close to the summer-blast movie season, knowledgeable film observers are looking to the harbinger of things to come: the film festival circuit. Three places worth...

At the top of "Road Scholar," Andrei Codrescu, the poet and National Public Radio humorist, remarks that he once had two claims to fame: "I was born in Transylvania and...

"The Ballad of Little Jo," a curious piece of fictional filmmaking "inspired by real life," is, in effect, a cross-dressing western. But whoa. It is, in its way, surprisingly effective,...

With a screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, who directed and wrote "Reservoir Dogs," "True Romance" would seem to be a set-up for violent interplay, and Tarantino doesn't hedge. Call this a...

`King of the Hill," based on the 1972 memoir by A.E. Hotchner about growing up young and independent in St. Louis in the 1930s, is a sweet, touching, delightful film...

In early 1990, Andrei Codrescu arrived in Chicago to do a commentary for National Public Radio on a key 20th Century work-"Golden Bird," the sculpture by fellow Romanian Constantin Brancusi...

In the '60s and '70s, Italians seemed to like their motion pictures divided, like ancient Gaul, into three parts. "Especially on Sunday" picks up the tradition of films like "Yesterday,...

"Manhattan Murder Mystery," Woody Allen's first straight-out comedy since the mid-'80s, opens with the expected love letter to his kind of town. As the credits roll, along with an aerial...

Tipping its hat to Martin Scorsese, "Amongst Friends" is a sort of "Mean Suburbs." For some reason, three boyhood friends who have grown up in the easy-affluent milieu of Long...

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's . . . . . .a bomb. Robert Townsend has come a long way since his satirical "Hollywood Shuffle" (1987), and it's been...