DARLING (John Schlesinger, 1965)

In Darling, Julie Christie dazzles as model Diana Scott, whose rise to the top of London’s fashion scene is helped by her selection of bed partners; this superbly inflected performance made Christie a star and won her Academy Awards in Britain and the U.S., along with other prizes from the New York critics and the […]

ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD (Werner Herzog, 2007)

Not among his documentary beauties (such visionary works as Fata Morgana, 1969, Herdsmen of the Sun, 1988, and Bells from the Deep, 1993), German-born, now U.S.-based writer-director Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World, despite its grand title, is lame and lightheaded. Herzog was invited by the National Science Foundation to accompany its […]