It’s a fair response for one to give less importance to mainstream directors when they downplay their themes or politics in interviews, for if the…
Something I learned over many years working in restaurants is that there are no cooks that work in them, no servers, no bartenders, no hosts…
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Many of us can agree that 2026 has been a dark year, and the sights ahead only look dimmer. War, starvation, deportation, rising cost of…
It’s a shame I had to see Kent Jones’ Willem Dafoe vehicle, Late Fame, on the Upper West Side at NYFF in mid-September. It was…
“There is a hole in the lake where the movies come from” is one of those incredible lines that Teenage Sex and Death at Camp…
While Hostel (2005) and Hostel: Part II (2007) are the immediate poster children for Eli Roth’s work as a horror director, his debut Cabin Fever…
Mexican director Fernando Eimbcke is a delight, a playful formalist in a sea of self-serious festival auteurs. But because comedy is often viewed askance by…