Berlin Review: Days Marks an Intensely Minimal Narrative Return for Tsai Ming-liang

Not a huge amount takes place at the beginning of Days. The opening exchanges are elemental: wind blows; rain patters; grass shivers; a boy in pink shorts play...

Candyman Trailer Introduces Nia DaCosta and Jordan Peele’s Horror Sequel

Candyman is back. A sequel to Bernard Rose's 1992 horror feature, based on Clive Barker's short story The Forbidden, this new creation comes from the minds of...

Vàclav Marhoul’s Uncompromising, Controversial WWII Drama The Painted Bird Gets U.S. Trailer

The horrors contained in the new restoration of Come and See aren't enough for a viewer, another uncompromising World War II drama will be arriving later this ...

Berlin Review: Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a Submarine Opens a Portal of Loneliness

A cruise ship off the coast of Patagonia becomes a portal into the lives of others in Uruguayan director Alex Piperno’s stubbornly esoteric debut Window Boy Wo...

Sean Price Williams Eyes Solo Directorial Debut with Nick Pinkerton-Scripted Feature

If one were to think of the cinematographers that defined the medium in the last decade, Sean Price Williams would be near the top. From his collaborations wit...

Berlin Review: Los Conductos is a Succinctly Potent Portrait of a Damaged Soul

Succinctly potent like a concentrated shot of a mood-altering substance, Camilo Restrepo’s Los Conductos renders a Colombian portrait of a damaged soul reclaim...

Berlin Review: Nina Hoss and Lars Eidinger Shine in My Little Sister

Nina Hoss and Lars Eidinger, two of Germany’s preeminent acting talents, play twins coming to terms with a diagnosis of terminal illness in My Little Sister, t...

Berlin Review: The Woman Who Ran Finds Hong Sang-soo at His Most Self-Referential

The Woman Who Ran opens on a lovely shot of hens. The camera then pulls back to show the garden of a middle-class apartment block where a woman named Youngsoon...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 387 – Top 10 Films of 2019

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Michael Snydel, and Bill Graham reflect on the cinema of 2019 with our p...

Berlin Review: Funny Face is a Stylish, Timely New York Odyssey

A girl in a headscarf meets a boy in a mask while trying to shoplift from the corner store where he works. She is frustrated from living at home with an uncle ...