A boogeyman from a time that predates 24-hour news cycles, podcasts, and true crime docuseries, the Boston Strangler represents something of an unsolvable problem for…
In the summer of 1969, thousands of music fans gathered for a once-in-a-lifetime show that would change the course of rock history. Bona fide legends…
There have been a number of meta-cinematic works over the years that detail the plans for a film that a maker had in mind, but…
Sara Cwynar’s new film Glass Life ends with halting credits that scroll up and down, then back up and back down, over and over, listing…
Alberto Vázquez is the sleeper MVP of the film animation world. Japanese auteurs like Makato Shinkai, Masaaki Yuasa, and Mamoru Hosoda have comfortably slid into…
Alternative music was serious business in the 1980s and ’90s. Fed up with not just stale, bombastic radio rock but hardcore punk’s stylistic blinders, underground…
Filmmaking duo and brothers Peter and Bobby Farrelly have received more than their fair share of vitriol over the years for their particular brand of…
It’s the mark of a truly lazy and amateur writer to begin any piece with a dictionary definition, specifically one which relates back to the…
One of the most accomplished actors of his generation, equally adept at conveying volcanic rage and soft-spoken humility, Adam Driver’s greatest gift arguably is that…
What started more than two decades ago as a completely unexpected shot in the arm for a mostly dead subgenre has steadily declined into being…
Somewhere along the line, not all that long ago, Arnaud Desplechin ceased to be a marketable name in the U.S. film biz. While certainly never…
The latest film from French actor-director Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi is difficult to evaluate. One could argue that, for what it is, it is fairly accomplished. A…
Ballet school drama Neneh Superstar is the kind of film that gives festivals like Rendez-Vous with French Cinema a reason to reach out to younger…
Three Nights a Week is less the love story between a straight man and a drag queen it has been billed as, and rather a…
Zhang Lu has proved a unique presence in 21st-century film: A Korean-Chinese literary intellectual of the 1980s who became a little-known cult figure in the…
Helmut Dosantos’ feature debut, Gods of Mexico, is an ethereal work of observation, informing tonality through compositional rigor, the beauty on display siphoned into a…
Depending on your disposition, New York City’s claustrophobic crush of humanity is either unsettling or liberating, if not both simultaneously — it’s not easy to…
Naomi Kawase’s 2014 romance drama Still the Water is never short on striking imagery. Set in Amami Ôshima, an island off the southern coast of…
It seems safe to say that we’re currently experiencing a remarkable resurgence of interest in Jacques Rivette; long the most mysterious of all the Nouvelle…
These days it feels like we’re more frequently encountering stories of people — particularly men — obsessed with legacy. Characters yearn for a sense of…