Some actors slip into familiar roles like old sweaters. Emily Watson might prefer a raincoat. The actress first graced our screens in Breaking the Waves for La...
In one of analytic philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's most widely shared quotes, he mused that "if a lion could talk, we would not understand him.” The barrier ...
Armageddon Time is the sort of film usually invoked as a "portrait of the nation" or "state of the union address," something taking the temperature of a countr...
“I don’t want to be a symbol,” Kirill Serebrennikov told the New York Times earlier this year. Good luck with that. When Leto was selected for the Cannes Film ...
Sometimes it can be a little sad to watch a director blatantly make a bid for mainstream American acceptance (or rather future Marvel gig), and in the case of ...
Most films ask nothing of you. You simply press play and watch the story unfold, gleaning context as the filmmaker colors in their narrative. But the occasiona...
An "us versus them" mentality inherently possesses the drama many documentarians seek to bottle when telling their stories. They mine their topic for the messa...
Keeping things in the family isn't always easy—just ask the Gallagher Brothers. Blood doesn't mean anything once fame and fortune enter the fray because outsid...
In his previous film Martin Eden, and now with Scarlet, Pietro Marcello has found a novel way to depict artistic striving, closely tying it with the concept of...
While director Anthony Banua-Simon uses the revelation as a sort of "gotcha" moment to end his documentary Cane Fire, hearing Kauai-native Larry Rivera—an ente...
