Wang Bing films have a reputation for their difficulty, but the opening film in his Youth trilogy, Youth (Spring), managed to be surprisingly varied and…
The 1954 version of A Star is Born should never have turned out as well as it did. It was a remake of a remake…
Is there anything new to say about The Godfather? This might have been a worthwhile question even very shortly after it came out. The recent…
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 25-film…
Funny how tastes change. Grand Illusion was almost certainly the Renoir consensus pick for many years — it was a box office smash in France,…
Among the boldest of the great Argentine films that emerged at the start of the 2000s was Lisandro Alonso’s 2001 debut La Libertad, a film…
Crossing opens with a title card stating that Georgian and Turkish are gender-neutral languages, with grammar not containing gender-oriented articles. We then are introduced to…
“None of my films are realistic, and certainly not naturalistic, including Sound and Fury, even though it touched on a certain social reality. They all…
Let us begin as I started: in media res. Two moths, born far too late to appear in the flurry of wings that made up…
Appreciating the work of Barry Gerson in recent years has been somewhat difficult. His work remains noted in high regard when it’s shown and mentioned,…
One of the more adorable touches in Pablo Berger’s animated film Robot Dreams comes early on, when our lonely dog protagonist’s apartment is revealed to…
When the band Slowdive came out of a 22-year hiatus with a self-titled album, the silhouetted graphic of a face that made up the album…
Long whispered about by in-the-know cinephiles but seldom seen in American theaters, Greek director Antoinetta Angelidi’s long overdue U.S. debut comes courtesy of Prismatic Ground…
New Directors/New Films takes a certain amount of pride in the names they’ve launched, and it’s not unjustified: any festival that can boast Hou Hsiao-Hsien,…
Kevin Jerome Everson sprays out films like a machine gunner, but he’s got a sniper’s aim. Marbled Golden Eyes, his latest documentary portrait about an…
Master French experimental filmmaker Jean-Claude Rousseau plays with pop music in Où sont tous mes amants?, a title borrowed from a 1935 tune that translates…
The inimitable internal torments of David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers are colored in bloody red and sterile chrome, starting with the melancholy anatomical figures and pointed…
The rare Shinya Tsukamoto film to not star the director himself, Shadow of Fire is his third consecutive period piece, following Fires on the Plain…
The latest piece of cotton candy in the ever-prolific François Ozon’s filmography, The Crime is Mine (Mon Crime) finds him restaging a 1934 play by…