If you've been paying attention to what's happening these past four years, you've certainly seen your share of open racism spewed with an angry sense of entitl...
Like the giant fly in Mandibules, director Quentin Dupieux has been buzzing and provoking us for roughly the past decade, trying to build a reputation as a new...
One of the most anticipated films going into the festival, Pieces of a Woman delivers, although in a less harrowing register than many assumed. The film is dir...
In The Disciple, a dedicated student of traditional North Indian music must grapple with the nagging feeling that he might not be quite good enough. The film i...
At one point in The Book of Vision, a young woman spins around in ecstasy, arms spread wide like a whirling dervish, before falling to the grass. The D.P. has ...
“Mulan! Take control of yourself!” These shouts greet young Mulan as she runs and leaps across her village, attempting to catch a wayward chicken. Set during t...
And like that, the Venice Film Festival, and maybe auteur cinema itself, is back. Recovering from a global pandemic that has altered life as we know it, and wi...
A small, harmless frog peacefully existing by the water is the first image presented in Feels Good Man. What follows from that serene moment––a nod to the sour...
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a subversive poem (according to the Chinese Nationalist Party that ruled Taiwan
under martial law during the period known as the White Terror from 1947 unti...
When his brain was firing on all comedic cylinders—on stage performing standup or improvising in front of the camera—Robin Williams described an experience aki...
