One of the more amazing things about returning to Rosemary’s Baby after its release decades ago, or even watching it for the first time…
It can often be difficult to evaluate the work of a director who is branching out from their niche. With Jon Bois, he has…
“You know what’s wrong with America, don’t you? It’s the light,” Hank rants to his buddy. “It’s all tinsel, it’s all phony bullshit, man.…
Once upon a time, the great François Truffaut said, “There’s no such thing as an anti-war film.” The details of when he said this,…
Who’s a Fredo? The Godfather Part II Against the New Right 1. In what amounts to the coda of The Godfather Part II, the…
There are three kinds of transportation that dominate cinema: the horse, the car, and the train. Each of these has its romance and its…
Is there anything new to say about The Godfather? This might have been a worthwhile question even very shortly after it came out. The…
Robert Beavers’ 18-film cycle My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure, comprising the majority of both his filmography and a recent…
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…
“They said, ‘Take the money while it is being offered, and then you go make your own personal movie.’ And there’s a lot of…
It’s interesting — the degree of profundity with which one interprets the word “interesting” here obviously being a “your mileage may vary” situation —…
Following a brief, but productive apprenticeship with Roger Corman, young Francis Coppola continued to explore numerous opportunities in film and theater while finishing his…
Every filmmaker has to start somewhere; for Francis Ford Coppola, like virtually the entire New Hollywood cohort that took the mainstream by storm in…
By the time Miklós Jancsó made Red Psalm in 1972, he had already established his own allegorical mode of filmmaking. Stories of uprisings, movements,…
Ghosts of workers lost to corporate violence in Jakarta and Korea; a future media archaeologist picking through Indonesia’s fossilized e-waste; sand miners under the…
The world humanity leaves behind won’t be completely empty, despite our best attempts. There will be all the animals that manage to outlive a…
Wolfs is so confident that it can entirely coast on the incredible chemistry between its two leads, George Clooney and Brad Pitt, that it…
Sometimes there’s pleasure to be taken in genre familiarity if the muscles are appropriately and well-flexed. An effectively written voiceover, haunted protagonist, seductive femme…