Dave Kehr

Sony Video Software, continuing a noble and no doubt money-losing enterprise, has added four new titles to its ''Japan Film Collection,'' a series that will eventually include 40 classic and...

In ''Crossing Delancey,'' veteran independent filmmaker Joan Micklin Silver returns to the Jewish milieu of her early hit ''Hester Street.'' This time, however, she turns ethnic drama into romantic comedy....

As Toronto`s Festival of Festivals moves into the midway point of its 11 days of movies, the event has produced only one prima donna-in the unlikely person of Zippy the...

When the dictator of the Caribbean country of Parador unexpectedly dies, the powers behind the throne-principally, shady businessman Roberto Strausmann (Raul Julia)-need a quick replacement. Jack Noah (Richard Dreyfuss), a...

From its opening sequence-a freckled street urchin of 1919, rushing to get a ticket for Comiskey Park`s bleachers-''Eight Men Out'' posits a child`s-eye view of baseball. It isn`t just a...

Bombastic and simple-minded, Costa-Gavras` ''Betrayed'' demonstrates why it`s often more damaging to make a poor political film than it is to make no film at all. The director of ''Z,''...

Jonathan Demme has modified his style and lowered his ambitions in ''Married to the Mob,'' apparently in hopes of reaching the wider audience that has for too long eluded this...

''A Fish Called Wanda'' contains some gaspingly funny moments, but as a movie it seems to lose itself somewhere over the mid-Atlantic. It`s an attempt to blend the wry drolleries...

''Da'' arrives by way of a successful Broadway drama by Hugh Leonard. The movie version, directed by actor Matt Clark, preserves Barnard Hughes` much-praised performance in the title role-as a...

The question posed by Clare Peploe`s sunny romantic comedy ''High Season'' is a sly one: Who owns Paradise? Does the gleamingly white hillside village of Lindos on the Greek island...