From the New York Times: By CHARLES McGRATH Published: June 3, 2010 STEPHEN KING once said of the novelist Jim Thompson: “He was crazy. He went running into the American subconscious with a blowtorch in one hand and a pistol in the other, screami …

When Life Starts to Unspool for a Passionate French Filmmaker By MANOHLA DARGIS Published: May 28, 2010 The poignant, startling French film “The Father of My Children” opens with a whoosh of activity. A financially struggling independent-movie p …