An impressive directorial debut and true New York tale, Joel Alfonso Vargas' Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) was a selection at Sundance, B...
If on sabbatical, return with the undeniable. Such was the thinking in programming films by two masters to mark the return of my screening series Amnesiascope,...
Criterion's history is longer and more complicated than anybody quite realizes, leaving some of their earliest (or even recent-ish) titles in a strange, semi-c...
“Someone at Sony Ericsson did a very good job!” Shielded from Locarno’s scorching heat inside the air-conditioned lobby of the Kursaal theater, Alexandre Kober...
Following up Evil Does Not Exist and Gift, Ryusuke Hamaguchi is returning this year with All of a Sudden. The French production, starring Virginie Efira and Ta...
Thornton Wilder’s meta-play Our Town, a staple of high school productions and English-class readings, has been used countless times onscreen—from its own adapt...
Before he heads off to embark on his James Bond film, Denis Villeneuve is concluding the saga that has taken up much of the last decade. Going by the more mark...
One of the most acclaimed feature-directing debuts of the last year, Sophy Romvari's Blue Heron premiered at the Locarno Film Festival where it picked up the B...
Nuri Bilge Ceylan usually takes more than a few years between films as of late, and thus we've been waiting to hear what might be next. The Turkish filmmaker h...
Reuniting after 2017's In the Fade, Fatih Akin and Diane Kruger's WWII-set drama Amrum premiered to acclaim at last year's Cannes Film Festival and will now be...
