Grief, guilt, and superstition slowly wreak havoc on the mind of a recent father, as he grapples with the death of a former lover. Seire,…
Neuroimaging studies of people who have recently experienced grief show that coping with death and loss significantly impacts human brain function. Voluntary actions, like memory…
Adapted from a Boston Teran novel and making the rather incredulous claim that it’s based on actual events, Nick Cassavetes’ God Is a Bullet is…
It goes without saying that the city of Paris, more than any other megalopolis, has — as a constant of film history — provided an…
Appropriate for a film set in and around Boston, Peter Yates’ 1973 crime-drama The Friends of Eddie Coyle is about a man who mistakenly believes…
Tracing a labyrinth of half-recalled memories, Revoir Paris, the fourth feature film from director Alice Winocour, explores violence while also turning its head from it.…
Lest the sun not rise again, Indiana Jones must return, he must gallivant to another side of the globe and retrieve the magical MacGuffin, and…
Historically held in low-regard, the coming-of-age comedy (or, to be less discrete, the teen sex comedy) has long served as a useful snapshot of the…
Beyond the star-studded premieres, the red carpets, the haute couture, and the million dollar acquisition deals, film festivals (ideally) exist to give a platform to…
Jon Hamm and Tina Fey, two of the most beloved television actors of the 21st century, have been orbiting each other for so long that…
While technically a “Covid film,” shot on weekends with friends and family during the first wave of lockdowns in early 2020, Tyler Taormina’s Happer’s Comet…
From his early short films to his two breakout features, Stranger by the Lake (2013) and Staying Vertical (2016), Alain Guiraudie has long conveyed a…
Like your sainted grandmother almost certainly used to say, there’s nothing better than an insipidly violent piece of trash to restore your faith in cinema.…
What’s in a name? Over the length of an intimidatingly monumental career, Seijun Suzuki gave us titles of great and peculiar beauty: Take Aim at…
Suicide narratives are dominated by two extremes: the undermined sense that all knowledge about the person who has died is now a hopelessly incomplete, even…
Long the standard bearer in American animation, specializing in four-quadrant hits that thread the needle between entertaining small children and reducing their parents to tears,…
When Carl Sagan wrote about the Pale Blue Dot photograph, in which a satellite photo frames Earth as a blue speck of dust in space…
Surviving the turnover of multiple directors, literal years of delays and reshoots, endless public troubles centered around its star, and even the wholesale scrapping of…
Since 1969, the French Directors’ Guild (SRF) has held the Directors’ Fortnight in parallel to the Cannes Film Festival. Often more adventurous than the official…
In This Issue: FEATURES: RISK-TAKING AND POETIC IMAGINATION: An Interview With Julien Rejl by Jesse Catherine Webber KICKING THE CANON: Pistol Opera (Seijun Suzuki) by Owen…