The contemporary royal family are more compelling as media figures than anything with much consequence to how life is lived in Britain today. They make great f...
Can someone get Edgar Wright a DJ residency? Or a prime-time (or drive-time) radio slot. Few working directors are so passionate and eager to play the tunes, t...
David Cronenberg, who certainly knows a thing about difficult literary adaptations, may have said it best: "In order to be faithful to the book, you need to be...
In a film of carefully appointed details, let’s isolate one. Phil Burbank (a fierce Benedict Cumberbatch) is, among many things, a man of reputation. The Monta...
T. S. Eliot gave it a cryptic name in The Waste Land: "The Burial of the Dead." Pedro Almodóvar has instructed his glamorous cast in Parallel Mothers to carry ...
The Port Arthur massacre, taking place April 28th, 1996 on the island state of Tasmania, is routinely commemorated as one of the darkest days in Australia’s po...
A car is knocked off-course on a quiet suburban street and crashes fatally into the front room of a well-furnished apartment. In the flurry of bricks and wall ...
“My work is all about transfiguration… I'm not a naturalistic filmmaker at all.” So goes one of the most widely quoted statements by French auteur Bruno D...
By evidence, Hong Sangsoo may never make an Oki’s Movie or Hill of Freedom-type work again; our maestro is shooting for bigger emotional game. It’s fascinating...
"Memoria" translates simply to "memory" in Spanish. The four syllables were also truly promising some resumption of a post-pandemic high-end cinema for us obse...
David Katz has been a freelance film journalist for over a decade. Born in Columbus, Ohio and raised in London, he primarily writes for the trade publication Cineuropa, but also loves popping up at The Film Stage from time to time.
