The opening minutes of Wang Jing's Feng Shui outline a difficult protagonist. Her name is Li Baoli, and, as played by the Beijing-born actress Yan Bingyan, she'...
Since premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012 -- where its lead actress, Emilie Dequenne, won Best Actress in the Un Certain Regard section -- Joachi...
Note: The following piece contains spoilers for both Shadow of a Doubt and Stoker.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt is already available on Blu-ray, ...
In “On Newsstands, Allure of the Film Actress Fades,” a New York Times article from this week, a portrait of a non-movie-star-centered culture is painted. T...
Note: The following piece contains spoilers for Before Midnight.
During a discussion panel at the recent Tribeca Film Festival, Forrest Cardamenis, a fri...
Currently in Cannes to scout funding for his passion project Silence, Martin Scorsese, in a brief-but-somewhat-enlightening interview with Total Film, hasn'...
It's no secret that undervalued writer-director James Gray is beloved much more in France than he is here in the United States. Prior to The Immigrant -- Gray's...
Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion opens with images of Jack Harper's (Tom Cruise) memory: black-and-white glimpses of a meeting atop the Empire State Building, the han...
Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell is an exquisite, elegant rebuke to the standards that define so many of our most popular filmic narratives: three-act structures ...
