
Friendly advice
Want a strictly sexual relationship with a woman? Okay then, don't break the "rules."

Dancing on my grave
Stepping from books back to the dance floor can challenge assumptions.

Reservoir Dogs
Put criminals in cahoots and they'd better succeed, or the dogs come out snarling.

Mente meccanica
Switching out the butler for the gnome seemed like a good idea in 1972.

Counting the cost
Margaret Fuller's support for Giuseppe Mazzini's independence movement at a price.

Maternal rights
When the legal issue is pregnancy, the Italian mother reigns supreme.

Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
The still-peerless portrayal of southern Italy of the 1930s by an exiled Jewish painter and doctor.

Visions, aging and Moog
Thoughts on Montreal's Claire Boucher, The Caretaker, and French duo Air.

Tundra pudding
The worst of winter — and this one has been brutal — can elicit the best chocolate pudding.

Loving and hurting
Seen three decades later, Scola and Wertmüller haven't lost their punch.

Slacker mom
Being a mother in two countries means dealing with two different sets of rules.