Nina Menkes’ bracing 1991 feature Queen of Diamonds is one of a group of notable films by female auteurs that have recently been restored and brought back into...
Conveyed with a majestic vision and reverence for the natural world, Shaunak Sen’s gorgeous, immersive documentary All That Breathes is one of the essential fi...
Park Chan-wook sees himself first and foremost as a storyteller, and as such his films masterfully marry striking visuals with twisty narratives that befuddle ...
Canada’s weirdest filmmaker, Guy Maddin has crafted a body of work since the 1980s that first comes off as classical-cinema homage but, looked at deeper, is ra...
Claire Denis has had a busy year. Her two films, Both Sides of the Blade and Stars at Noon, premiered at Berlinale and Cannes, respectively. Blade earned the S...
With Clemency, Chinonye Chukwu was the first Black woman to win the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. Three years later she returns with another stor...
Alice Diop was never interested in the outcome. In 2016, the filmmaker attended the trial of Senegalese mother Fabienne Kabou, who walked to the beach in Berck...
Ruben Östlund has always maintained a fearlessness in his work. 2011’s Play depicted a group of Swedish-Somali boys who rob white kids by preying on their disc...
Once the biggest staple of Hollywood filmmaking, the Western has seen ebbs and flows through the history of cinema. In recent decades you’d be hard-pressed to ...
In the middle of the 1970s, Sergei Parajanov was killing time. Imprisoned for what the authorities considered subversive activities (he was, amongst other thin...
