The 1954 version of A Star is Born should never have turned out as well as it did. It was a remake of a…
Here’s an unpopular opinion: movies should speak for themselves. In the ever-incessant era of YouTube, TikTok, and social media, there is certainly no dearth…
There’s a distinct thrill to be had in discovering a nascent filmmaking voice, particularly one that is teeming with assuredness, wit, and loads of…
By the time Miklós Jancsó made Red Psalm in 1972, he had already established his own allegorical mode of filmmaking. Stories of uprisings, movements,…
Hero is one of the great films by one of the world’s most brilliant image-makers in Zhang Yimou, shot by one of the world’s…
Love Streams opens on Robert Harmon (director John Cassavetes), a washed-up novelist living in a nice, old house (the filmmaker’s actual home) interviewing some…
It feels pointless to aim for some new insight in regard to Magnificent Obsession. As the title suggests, Sirk’s melodramas, particularly those he made…
In his review for 7 Men from Now in Cahiers du Cinéma, Andre Bazin identified that like many of Budd Boetticher’s Westerns, this one…
Allan Dwan’s happenstance journey into Hollywood is marked by a myriad of right time-right place encounters that allowed the young engineer to become one…
“None of my films are realistic, and certainly not naturalistic, including Sound and Fury, even though it touched on a certain social reality. They…
Any number of filmmakers can fittingly have their work characterized as “vibrant,” but very few filmographies feel as alive as that of Olivier Assayas.…
Steady, are you ready? The realm of music videos can be a superb breeding ground for future star filmmakers. Before he was known as…
The psychoanalytical turn of film theory in the 1970s, foundational to critical and theoretical film discourses on cinema to date, has always had a…
The provocations of the Italian poet, critic, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini have been, for contemporary viewers, largely condensed into that one magnum opus…
A Matter of Time stands strong among Vincente Minnelli’s lauded oeuvre as the least talked about of all. Against established canonical pieces like An…
Pop quiz, hotshot: if a city bus is rigged with explosives and speeding down the highway at 50mph, what is the probability that Keanu…
By the time Alfonso Cuarón (Y Tu Mamá También) took over from Chris Columbus to direct Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the…
The specter of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) looms large over Chantal Akerman’s The Captive (2000). At times, it’s to such an extent that it…