Police, Adjective News

IFC Films, 113 mins. That shopworn phrase "by the book" takes on a doggedly literal meaning in Police, Adjective .

"I don't think writers are sacred, but words are," observes the playwright protagonist of Tom Stoppard 's 1982 play The Real Thing .

Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu's latest feature, the oddball detective story Police, Adjective , opened at the IFC Center this week , so we thought this would be a good opportunity to present his 2002 short, Gone With the Wine , which displays the same dry wit that has made the director's features such hits on the art-house and festival ...

Less is more in the sophomore feature by Cannes Camera d'or winner Corneliu Porumboiu , a filmmaker attentive, like his fellow under-40 countrymen Cristi Puiu and Cristian Mungiu, to the ironies of bureaucracy in post-totalitarian Romania.

Our film reviewers put their minds together and came up with their favorite films of the year.

Sometimes police work is dangerous, but it also has plenty of mundane drudgery, like stakeouts and paperwork.

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This year's top eleven, with the usual caveat that there are some nice things I'm sure I've missed and that I still hope to catch up on, soon, in which case I'll report back on them.

European Film Promotion on Wednesday announced the 10 young thesps who will participate in the Shooting Stars program at next year's Berlinale.

IFC Films debuted the US trailer for Corneliu Porumboiu's Police, Adjective earlier this week on Apple .

The newest triumph from the burgeoning national cinema of Romania POLICE, ADJECTIVE is a wry comedy about crime, conscience and the beauty of language from the director of 1:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST, Corneliu Poromboiu.

Those who have attended the The EU Film Festival know that it's all about the movies.

The fourth annual Romanian Film Festival will take place Dec. 4-6 at Tribeca Cinemas in Gotham.

The AFI Fest moved on Friday from its Hollywood home to the westside, coinciding with the start of Santa Monica's American Film Market.

Set, like Porumboiu's previous 12:08 East of Bucharest , in the filmmaker's hometown of Vaslui, Police, Adjective depicts an absurdly protracted sting operation designed to catch a lone high school student in the act of selling marijuana.

The Romanian Cultural Institute Presents "4 Years, 3 Days and 2 Decades Later" The Romanian Cultural Institute announced today the line-up for the 4th Annual Romanian Film Festival in New York City, this year entitled 4 YEARS, 3 DAYS AND 2 DECADES LATER, to take place from December 4th-6th at Tribeca Cinemas.

Francis Ford Coppola, David Cronenberg and Juliette Binoche are among the guests at the third edition of Portugal's Estoril Film Festival, which runs Nov.

Robert Koehler began attending film festivals at age 14 and grew up to become a movie critic for Hollywood's leading trade publication, Variety.

Chicago International Film Festival founder Michael Kutza wants his event to take the city's mind off last week's loss of the 2016 Summer Olympics to Rio de Janeiro.