Most actors tend to negotiate the move behind the camera with intimate, character-driven human stories. But in his uncommonly ambitious directing debut "The Dancer Upstairs," John Malkovich has ...

Skin an actor, get a director wannabe. Some prime examples of this ilk include Buster Keaton, Charles Laughton, Lionel Barrymore, Raoul Walsh, Ida Lupino, Lee Grant, Dennis Hopper, and the Godfather ...

Terrorism is political, and personal. Cruelty eddies, then creates the world we know. Many things like this are not overtly flagged in “The Dancer Upstairs.” The secrecy with which Yolanda and Rejas ...

Dead dogs hanging from lampposts seem like an unlikely source of entertainment, and is an especially bold move for a first time director working with a small cast. In “The Dancer Upstairs,” the ...

Set in an unnamed Latin American country, The Dancer Upstairs attempts to be a timeless story of a good cop stuck in a bad system, set against a background of guerrilla terrorism and beautiful ...

Barre Girl: Laura Morante seduces crusading lawman Javier Bardem in The Dancer Upstairs. Javier Bardem, the star of The Dancer Upstairs, is that rare modern performer who personifies heroism. This ...

In the pleasurably nerve-jangling thriller “The Dancer Upstairs,” Spanish actor Javier Bardem plays a tender-eyed cop named Agustin Rejas. A onetime lawyer, Rejas is working as a detective in the ...

In a Latin American country with more than a passing resemblance to Fujimori-era Peru, a new political force announces itself overnight, adorning the capital's street lamps with dead dogs stuffed with ...

John Malkovich, that seductively serpentine star of Dangerous Liaisons, Of Mice and Men, The Portrait of a Lady and dozens of other films (including the unforgettable Being John Malkovich) has made a ...

The Dancer Upstairs: In a South American nation, a determined police detective embarks on a relentless pursuit of a revolutionary guerilla leader responsible for inciting political unrest. As he ...