Speaking of dear ole Dad! Over at Film Forum, the pessimistic “Breadlines & Champagne” film festival is still mucking around in Depression-era celluloid; Scarface screens for drunk, out-of-work investment-banking analysts wandering around Soho mumbling, “Say hello to mah little frien,” oblivious to the fact that the 1932 original didn’t star Al Pacino. … (His name was Paul Muni, and Howard ...

Monday: A Charlie Brown Christmas Oh, what can we say? It's perfect. Perfect! The Peanuts gang shows us every possible way to screw up the holiday: Snoopy decorates his dog house like it's Atlantic City; Sally asks Santa to send cash money; Charlie Brown, that blockhead, mopes, sulks, overanalyzes, expects too much, and then settles on a terrible ...

I was tempted to tuck away half a dozen Westerns inside my 100 best movies,as I believe that almost everything the American cinema has to say has beensaid within this genre. And if I allowed my heart to rule my head, there wouldbe half a dozen Howard Hawks movies in there too. Westerns seem to best express the myths ...