Italian filmmaker Roberto Minervini has long held his ever-fascinated gaze on America's unwanted, isolated or forgotten people. Last year, he finalized his Texa...
If director/co-writer Sebastian Schipper wanted, he could have easily turned Victoria into a first-person adventure through the streets of Berlin. It practicall...
The town of Bobbio, in central Italy, often recurs in Marco Bellocchio’s history, in the same way that the 17th-century episode of the ‘nun of Monza’ (whose aff...
Interpretative dance is not something to be lightly taken. You either have the propensity to let it wash over you in its loose gyrations of emotional expression...
The 1969 Sir George Williams Affair seems like something we should all know about. It occurred only a year after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and prov...
Earlier this year, Kent Jones’ Hitchcock /Truffaut -- a documentary on the famous interview sessions between the two directors -- boasted perhaps the most chaot...
Alexander Woollcott once remarked, "All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening." Art is wonderful because it allows us to indu...
The attacks of November 2008 in Mumbai that left 195 people dead become a claustrophobic, almost austere affair in the hit-and-miss Taj Mahal, starring Nymphoma...
As the Venice Film Festival enters its final phase, the competition throws up perhaps its most unknown quantity as celebrated New York City polymath Laurie Ande...
An emperor’s new clothes of technical virtuosity, veteran Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski’s latest is a frenetic, kinetic, but largely insipid speed through t...
