Following in the footsteps of Luchino Visconti, François Ozon has delivered a new update on the classic Albert Camus novel The Stranger. Delivering one of his ...
In quite the match-up, Ildikó Enyedi has brought together Tony Leung and Léa Seydoux for Silent Friend, which tells three stories connected to a tree over a pe...
One of the more delightful Sundance premieres I saw last year was Canadian director Chloé Robichaud’s sex comedy Two Women, following two mothers who deal with...
It's time for our first column of 2026, recommending the best in new filmmaking books, and there is no better way to begin than with a new book exploring the h...
The exhaustively extended awards season finally being over isn't the only reason to celebrate this month. Led by my current frontrunner for the best film of 20...
Few subjects constitute a better benchmark than Werner Herzog, who quite literally needs no introduction and to whom I will, accordingly, not grant such.
He...
Following up the wonderful Happy as Lazzaro and La Chimera, Alice Rohrwacher has assembled quite the ensemble for her next feature. Dakota Johnson, Saoirse Ron...
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
BAMThe World of Black Film features Malcolm X, Daughters of the Dust, Set It Off, Black Orp...
“Between 1969 and 1977, Elvis played 1,100 shows, sometimes 3 times a day.”
The postscript of Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert—the extravag...
Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.
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