Lynn Y. Lee

Color My World Nostalgic With 'Pleasantville'

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Pleasantville charms; on the visual level, it dazzles. Half comedy, half fable, it flips the premise of The Truman Show

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S o: you got Quadded. And, by the usual guess, you ought to be gnashing your teeth, muttering imprecations against

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In a canny and generally successful appeal to the youth market, this film streamlines Henry James's notoriously dense novel, bringing

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In a canny and largely successful appeal to the youth market, this film streamlines Henry James's notoriously dense novel and

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Streamlining Henry James's notoriously dense novel, this film brings its melodramatic and erotic undertones to the forefront. A well-bred but

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First-time director Andrew Niccol brings considerable visual style and an intriguing premise to this story of a Brave New Worldish

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A gorgeous, half-successful epic gives much-needed public visibility to the tragic modern history of Tibet, but opts for glossy formulaic

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"It's not the easiest book to translate into film," says director Iain Softley of Henry James's The Wings of the

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A gorgeous, half-successful epic gives much-needed public visibility to the tragic modern history of Tibet, but opts for glossy formulaic

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This tale of a small-town high school teacher (Kevin Kline) whose life turns upside down when he's declared gay by