There are some others making films like Mark Jenkin. His Bolex-shot, creaky-sounding cinema isn't the greatest system shock to those who've attended (one might...
When you think of Robin Hood, what do you think of? Errol Flynn? Kevin Costner? Stealing from the rich and giving to the poor? Bryan Adams’ smash hit "(Everyth...
Summer is here, and there are plenty of books in our latest roundup worthy of lugging to the beach. Just don’t be surprised if you get funny looks for eating u...
The thing about filmmaker John Sayles is that he has done everything. Do you love Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial or Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist? S...
A slippery character study and staggering sensory experience, Milagros Mumenthaler's The Currents was one of my favorite discoveries of last year's New York Fi...
There's not much room nowadays for movies that are merely pretty good, even—especially—coming from great directors. Olivier Assayas’ CV has fortified his great...
Loving modern cinema and admiring Tony Leung are essentially a one-to-one deal. One can look no further than Film at Lincoln Center’s recent retrospective of t...
In Silent Friend, characters from three eras interact with the fauna around them. In 1908, Grete (Luna Wedler) tries to study medicine at a time when women wer...
With 18 features and counting to his name—including modern classics like My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument and A Christmas Tale—French writer-direct...
Lucrecia Martel is one of our great chroniclers of existing on stolen land. Through wit, clarity, and without any hollow platitudes, her work cuts through whit...
