“How can the same shit happen to the same guy twice?!” That’s a line spoken by Bruce Willis as NYPD officer-turned-Nakatomi Plaza hero John McClane,…
Summer is closing. The weather remains warm, but the chill of autumn whispers its hello with a breeze that reminds us of time’s passing. It…
It’s overselling Mayday a bit to suggest that it could have been made and released in 1987, when it takes place. That said, it’s rather…
There aren’t enough filmmakers, perhaps, still afraid of Virginia Woolf. Tina Gharavi, whose film I Am Nasrine was smuggled out of Tehran before being nominated…
Whether she was shooting her sexual experiences with lovers, the social and political climate of cultural feminism, or an ultimately fatal battle with ovarian cancer,…
With an education system as corrupt and ineffectual as that of the United States, stories of real teachers making a genuine difference are few and…
Even when Jorge Luis Borges wrote screenplays, they weren’t necessarily “Borgesian” — not, that is, distilled into the particular pleasure of following one of Borges’…
“Consequently, Twenty-Four Eyes, which was made by Kinoshita Keisuke in 1954, is clearly a Japanese film,” says Nagisa Oshima, “but the Twenty-Four Eyes made in…