Water — or, to put it more precisely, the inherent fluidity of it — is a central motif of freedom in all of Lucile Hadžihalilović’s…
Die, My Love There comes a tale from an antique land. A King ruled over a thin Isthmus, above and below which were two unfathomably…
François Ozon is a peculiar filmmaker. The French director’s output is as prolific (25 films in nearly 30 years) as it is full of odd…
Hamnet A single work of art may, or may not, be able to change the world, but it can surely change a mind. To those…
Ballad of a Small Player To know the value of something, you can’t just win it — you have to earn it. That’s a lesson…
To know the value of something, you can’t just win it — you have to earn it. That’s a lesson that Edward Berger, cinema’s new…
Elaborate, ephemeral, and exceedingly difficult to pull off, the souffle takes a serious amount of skill, experience, and precision to make, but typically takes just…
There’s comfort on familiar terrain. The coming-of-age story has been a mainstay in storytelling across all media for as long as stories have been told;…
“There is no dead matter,” the narrator’s father proselytizes in Bruno Schulz’s 1937 book Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, “lifelessness is only a…
Entering Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie, one is immediately faced with a decision. It’s a decision of considerable importance. Standing in the rotunda, one may either go forward,…
In England, every director of eligible age faces being conscripted into making a movie about the British experience of a world war of their choosing.…
In 1892, Ruth Belville took up the family business. It was a trade inherited from her mother, first founded by her father. He had innovated…
Ammonite Three years on from Francis Lee’s terrific gay drama, God’s Own Country, and the director has moved on from the romantic union of two…
Herself A patron of the British arts, Phyllida Lloyd’s transition from a director of theater to film could hardly have been more conspicuous. Her debut…
Another week, another festival. For this year’s BFI London Film Festival, it’s business as usual, which is to say the unusual business of 2020 film…
Our third and final dispatch from the 2019 BFI London Film Festival is offers thoughts on one of the upcoming awards season’s biggest players —…
Our second dispatch from the 2019 BFI London Film Festival is heavy on likely awards season contenders — Jojo Rabbit, Ford v Ferrari, and The Two Popes —…
Our first dispatch from the 2019 BFI London Film Festival takes a look at an eclectic array of films both major and minor on this…
It’s been a long 10 days at the 2014 LFF, but I’m back with news of films from the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia,…
If I’m overloaded on caffeine and discussing the virtues of Keira Knightley with a random Italian woman, it must be that time of year again.…