Filmmaker Michael Moore wants to make one thing crystal clear about his latest film, “Bowling for Columbine.” “Ultimately, this film is not about guns, it’s not about school shootings,” Moore said about the documentary, the first to be accepted into the Cannes Film Festival for competition in 46 years. Read more...

“Punch Drunk Love” New Line/Revolution 4 Paws This is not “Boogie Nights” or “Billy Madison.” But P. T. Anderson’s latest film combines aspects of his style with Adam Sandler’s presence as both a comic, and yes, dramatic actor. Read more...

The motivation for young pianists to tackle Chopin’s etudes, pieces that are monuments of technical razzle dazzle, is youthful vanity. The motivation for 40-year-old Louis Lortie to do the same is less obvious. Read more...

Imagine scenes of a young woman in ecstasy, a wife about to hit her husband with a bottle, or a daughter stealing from her dying father. Read more...

Joan Didion’s “Political Fictions” introduces an angle on American politics few have seen. It’s like visiting the vacant set of a television show: what appears real and sincere is revealed to be fake. Read more...

President Bush’s “Axis of Evil” includes a country torn by politics but connected through heritage as an industrialized South Korea mourns its northern communist counterpart, a remnant of the Cold War. Read more...

If art can truly be said to imitate life, then in a new age filled with impending war and other political tensions, museums have begun to adapt their exhibits to focus on new media such as film and documentary. Read more...