[NYAFF Review] Feng Shui
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'...
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Trailer For Joachim Lafosse’s Award-Winning Drama ‘Our Children’
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...
The Vampire Mythos of ‘Shadow of a Doubt’ and ‘Stoker’
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, ...
Surprise: New Study Reveals Gender Inequality in 2012’s Highest-Grossing Movies
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...
Romance In Europe: How ‘Before Midnight’ Connects to ‘Journey to Italy,’ ‘Certified Copy’ & More
Note: The following piece contains spoilers for Before Midnight.
During a discussion panel at the recent Tribeca Film Festival, Forrest Cardamenis, a fri...
Martin Scorsese Compares ‘Silence’ to ‘Bringing Out the Dead,’ ‘Kundun,’ and ‘Mean Streets’
Currently in Cannes to scout funding for his passion project Silence, Martin Scorsese, in a brief-but-somewhat-enlightening interview with Total Film, hasn'...
Watch: First Clip From ‘The Immigrant’ as James Gray Sets Up Sci-Fi Picture
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...
The Facts & Fabrications of ‘Pain & Gain’: How Much Truth Is In Michael Bay’s Latest Film?
Supposedly "based on a true story," we take at look at five facts and five fabrications in Michael Bay's latest film....
[Review] Oblivion
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...
[Review] Stories We Tell
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 ...
